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Rashid Israr
Personal information
Born (1953-07-01) 1 July 1953 (age 73)
Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
BattingRight-handed
Bowling
RoleOccasional Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1971/72Pakistan International Airlines B
1972/73–1974/75Public Works Department
1973/74–1975/76Sind, incl. Sind A and Sind B
1973/74Pakistan Universities
1974/75Karachi Whites
1975/76–1977/78Habib Bank Limited
1978/79–1986/87Pakistan International Airlines
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 91 21
Runs scored 4,905 152
Batting average 39.87 15.20
100s/50s 11/20 0/0
Top score 350 29
Balls bowled 84 252
Wickets 1 6
Bowling average 48.00 29.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/9 2/28
Catches/stumpings 81/8 13/1
Source: CricketArchive, 23 February 2025

Rashid Israr (born 1 July 1953) is an Indian-born Pakistani retired cricketer. He played for 16 seasons in domestic cricket, between 1971 and 1987, as a specialist batter who often kept wicket. Israr scored eleven centuries during his career and has one of the highest scores recorded in a first-class match in Pakistan.

Early career

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Born in Sitapur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on 1 July 1953,[1] Israr was the younger brother of Shahid Israr, who played a single Test match for Pakistan in 1976.[2] Israr made his debut in Pakistani cricket during the 1971/72 BCCP Trophy as part of a B squad for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) departmental team.[3] In the match, he scored 34 and 19 in his two innings of batting.[4] He moved on to the Public Works Department (PWD) side for the 1972/73 event, which was renamed the BCCP Patron's Trophy by this time, and, in three matches, scored three half-centuries in four innings at the crease.[3][5]

During the mid-1970s, Israr represented multiple teams simultaneously, often depending on the competition he was playing in. While representing PWD again in the 1973/74 Patron's Trophy, he also represented Sind[a] in the newly-formed Pentangular Trophy;[3] in the former, he made his first career century, taking around nine and a half hours to score an unbeaten 211 against Hyderabad.[7] Overall, he finished the year with a batting average of 61.71 in five total matches.[5] The following season, he represented three different teams in four different competitions: PWD in the Patron's Trophy, Sind in the Pentangular Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy,[b] and a Karachi Whites team in the final of the Kardar Summer Shield,[3] a short-lived event where only the final was considered a first-class match.[9] Between all four competitions, he scored 663 runs in 11 matches at an average of 39.00.[5]

Middle career

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Israr appeared in eight different competitions in Pakistan during the 1975/76 season, five with first-class status and three with List A status,[3][10][c] which he split between two teams representing Sind and the Habib Bank Limited cricket team (HBL). His overall numbers in first-class matches fell to 417 runs in a season, with his batting average falling nearly seven points to 32.07.[5] In seven List A matches, he only managed a high of 29 runs in an innings, with 67 runs total.[11]

In the 1976/77 campaign, Israr spent the full domestic season with HBL.[3][10] He would set a personal best that year with 911 runs in 10 matches,[5] a total that ranked third among all domestic cricketers in Pakistan behind Javed Miandad and Mohsin Khan; both were teammates of Israr's at HBL at times during the year.[12] In helping the team win the Patron's Trophy against the National Bank of Pakistan cricket team, he scored 350 in an innings during the final.[13] He stayed at the crease for roughly twelve and a half hours of match time to score his total before being dismissed.[14] At the time, Israr's 350 was the third-highest score in Pakistan's domestic cricket history, behind only the then-world record of 499 by Hanif Mohammad in 1959[d] and a score of 428 by Aftab Baloch in 1974.[16][e] Coincidentally, Aftab was responsible for dismissing Israr by stumping him to end his innings.[13] Israr's 1977/78 season was his final one with HBL.[17] While appearing in two more matches than the previous campaign, he managed over 300 fewer runs, though his batting average remained above his career numbers.[5][18]

Late career

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For the 1978/79 season, Israr rejoined PIA's cricket team.[17] In his first Quaid-e-Azam match for the side, he scored his third and final double-century against Punjab,[19][20] en route to a 648-run season that saw him record his highest batting average, 72.00, over a full season.[5] The season also included his final century, an unbeaten 174, during a Patron's Trophy match against Multan that was conceded to PIA before the innings could finish.[21][5]

His runs and appearances would decline sharply over the rest of his tenure with PIA, starting with a 1979/80 season that was limited to four matches and featured his lowest season batting average at the time.[5] Seven matches and over 350 runs followed the next year, though an improved 35.80 average was still below average for his career.[5][18] From 1981 to 1985, he would fail to reach 200 runs in a season.[5] Despite this, he appeared in his only match outside of Pakistan during 1981/82, when PIA toured Zimbabwe to play first-class and List A matches against their cricket team;[22] his lone first-class match saw him total eight runs, two more than he would score in his two one-day matches combined.[11][5]

After not appearing in a match during the 1985/86 year, he reappeared for PIA at the end of the following season in 1987, when he was chosen for their PACO Cup[f] final match against United Bank Limited. In the match, ultimately a win for PIA, he managed 20 runs in the two innings combined.[24] Overall, his career ended with 4,905 first-class runs, in addition to 152 in List A matches.[18]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Sind was the English spelling for what is now the Sindh province at the time Rashid played for them.[6]
  2. ↑ In the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Rashid's team was known as Sind A, as a Sind B side also appeared in the event.[8]
  3. ↑ Among first-class competitions, Rashid appeared in the Sikandar Ali Bhutto Cup, Patron's Trophy, and Abdul Sattar Pirzada Memorial Trophy with HBL, the Pentangular Trophy with Sind, and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy with Sind's B side.[3] In all three List A competitions on offer that year, the Servis Cup, Habib Bank Gold Cup, and United Bank Trophy, Rashid appeared with HBL.[10]
  4. ↑ Hanif's 499 was later passed by Brian Lara in his unbeaten 501 in 1994.[15]
  5. ↑ As of 2025, it is the fourth highest score on Pakistani soil; Naved Latif would later score 394 in a 2000 match.[16]
  6. ↑ The PACO Cup was the sponsored name of the Patron's Trophy when the Pakistan Automobile Corporation had naming rights for it in the 1980s.[23]

References

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  1. ↑ "Rashid Israr Profile". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Ex-Test wicket-keeper Shahid Israr passes away". Dawn. Dawn Media Group. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "First-Class Matches played by Rashid Israr". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Karachi Whites v Pakistan International Airlines B in 1971/72". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Rashid Israr". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Sindh, not Sind". The Express Tribune. 12 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Hyderabad v Public Works Department in 1973/74". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 1974/75". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "Kardar Summer Shield 1974/75". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  10. 1 2 3 "List A Matches played by Rashid Israr". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  11. 1 2 "List A Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Rashid Israr". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  12. ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Pakistan for 1976/77". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  13. 1 2 "Habib Bank Limited v National Bank of Pakistan in 1976/77". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  14. ↑ "Longest Individual First Class Innings". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. c. 2001. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  15. ↑ "First-Class Double-Hundreds by Score". The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  16. 1 2 "First-Class Double-Hundreds in Pakistan by Score". The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  17. 1 2 "Teams Rashid Israr played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  18. 1 2 3 "Rashid Israr". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  19. ↑ "Punjab v Pakistan International Airlines in 1978/79". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  20. ↑ "First-Class Double-Hundreds in Pakistan by Date". The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  21. ↑ "Multan v Pakistan International Airlines in 1978/79". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  22. ↑ "Pakistan International Airlines in Zimbabwe 1981/82". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  23. ↑ Balachandran, Kanishkaa (5 October 2006). "A brief history ..." ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  24. ↑ "Pakistan International Airlines v United Bank Limited in 1986/87". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
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