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{{short description|Pakistani cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Dildar Awan
| image =
| caption =
| country = Pakistan
| fullname = Dildar Mohammad Awan
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1928|11|1}}
| birth_place = [[Jalandhar|Jullundur]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2000|1|7|1928|11|1}}
| death_place = [[Lahore]], Pakistan
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off-spin
| club1 = [[Combined Services (Pakistan) cricket team|Combined Services]]
| year1 = 1958/59–1964/65
| club2 = [[Sargodha cricket team|Sargodha]]
| year2 = 1964/65–1965/66
| club3 = [[Pakistan Air Force cricket team|Pakistan Air Force]]
| year3 = 1969/70–1972/73
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 31
| runs1 = 412
| bat avg1 = 11.44
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 32
| deliveries1 = 7828
| wickets1 = 141
| bowl avg1 = 17.20
| fivefor1 = 6
| tenfor1 = 2
| best bowling1 = 7/65
| catches/stumpings1= 13/–
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41992/41992.html CricketArchive
| date = 25 February
| year = 2014
}}
'''Dildar Mohammad Awan''' (1 November 1928 – 7 January 2000) was a Pakistani [[cricket]]er who played [[first-class cricket]] in Pakistan from 1958/59 to 1972/73. He was a right-arm off-spin bowler.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dildar Awan |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/dildar-awan-40056 |website=Cricinfo |access-date=3 December 2021}}</ref> He later became an [[Umpire (cricket)|umpire]].

==Career with Combined Services==
Making his first-class debut a few weeks after turning 30, Awan took 5 for 19 and 3 for 16 in his first match, for [[Combined Services (Pakistan) cricket team|Combined Services]] against [[Rawalpindi cricket team|Rawalpindi]] in December 1958.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23235.html Rawalpindi v Combined Services 1958-59]</ref> He was the most successful bowler in the [[Quaid-i-Azam Trophy]] that season,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Quaid-e-Azam_Trophy_1958-59/Bowling_by_Average.html Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 1958-59 bowling by average]</ref> taking 25 wickets at 16.36 and helping Combined Services into the final against [[Karachi cricket teams|Karachi]]. Karachi won the final by 279 runs, Awan taking three wickets,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23314.html Karachi v Combined Services 1958-59]</ref> but the course of the match was overshadowed by the death of the Karachi wicket-keeper [[Abdul Aziz (cricketer, born 1941)|Abdul Aziz]]. Batting late on the first day, Aziz was struck on the chest by a slow off-break from Awan, fell to the ground a moment later, never regained consciousness, and died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1960, p. 949.</ref> Later in the season, Awan played for a Commander-in-Chief's XI against the touring [[West Indies cricket team|West Indians]], taking three wickets.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23367.html Commander-in-Chief's XI v West Indians 1958-59]</ref>

In 1961–62, bowling unchanged through each innings, he took 7 for 65 (his best innings figures) and 3 for 28 for Combined Services against [[Sargodha cricket team|Sargodha]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25232.html Sargodha v Combined Services 1961-62]</ref> A few days earlier he had taken 6 for 47 and 4 for 50 against [[Peshawar cricket team|Peshawar]]. In the second innings, he and [[Salahuddin (cricketer, born 1936)|Salahuddin]] bowled unchanged through an innings of 125.3 overs. Awan had match figures of 80.5–44–97–10.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25220.html Peshawar v Combined Services 1961-62]</ref> In the final of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy against [[Karachi cricket teams|Karachi Blues]], batting at number three in the second innings, he made his highest score, 32, the top score of the innings, but Karachi Blues won by four wickets.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25281.html Karachi Blues v Combined Services 1961-62]</ref> Awan played for a Combined XI against the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] later in the season, taking two wickets in a match ruined by rain.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25312.html Combined XI v MCC 1961-62]</ref>

In 17 matches for Combined Services, he took 95 wickets at 15.50.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41992/f_Bowling_by_Team.html Dildar Awan first-class bowling for each team]</ref>

==Later career==
The Combined Services team went into abeyance after 1964–65. After two matches for Sargodha in 1964-65 and 1965-66 Awan did not play again until the inaugural matches played by the [[Pakistan Air Force cricket team]] in 1969–70 when he was 40. He was their leading wicket-taker that season, with 10 wickets at 21.30,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/2/Quaid-e-Azam_Trophy_1969-70/Pakistan_Air_Force_Bowling.html Pakistan Air Force bowling 1969-70]</ref> but the side lost all three of their matches. In 1970–71 he captained Pakistan Air Force to their only victory, over his old side Sargodha, taking match figures of 33–19–58–6.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/31/31480.html Sargodha v Pakistan Air Force 1970-71]</ref>

He did not play in 1971–72, but he did stand as an umpire in two of Sargodha's matches.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41992/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html Dildar Awan umpiring in first-class matches]</ref> He returned to play in one last match in 1972–73, when at the age of 44 he opened the bowling for Pakistan Air Force and took 3 for 126 off 58 overs against [[Lahore cricket teams|Lahore B]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/32/32983.html Lahore B v Pakistan Air Force 1972-73]</ref>

== See also ==

* [[List of unusual deaths]]
* [[Ray Chapman]], an American [[baseball]] player killed after being struck by a ball during a game. The only player in Major League Baseball history to die of an in-game injury

* [[List of fatal accidents in cricket]]

==References==
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[[Category:1928 births]]
[[Category:2000 deaths]]
[[Category:Pakistani cricketers]]
[[Category:Combined Services (Pakistan) cricketers]]
[[Category:Sargodha cricketers]]
[[Category:Pakistan Air Force cricketers]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Jalandhar]]

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