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{{Short description|Pakistani cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Inayat Khan
| image =
| caption =
| country = Pakistan
| full_name = Malik Inayat Khan
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1922|10|19}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
| role = All-rounder
| club1 = [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]]
| year1 = 1943-44 to 1945-46
| club2 = [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]
| year2 = 1943-44
| club3 = [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]]
| year3 = 1944-45 to 1948-49
| club4 = [[Punjab cricket team (Pakistan)|Punjab]]
| year4 = 1947-48
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 18
| runs1 = 734
| bat avg1 = 29.36
| 100s/50s1 = 1/5
| top score1 = 100
| deliveries1 = 2382
| wickets1 = 19
| bowl avg1 = 34.89
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 3/59
| catches/stumpings1= 8/–
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/inayat-khan-40756 ESPNcricinfo
| date = 27 January
| year = 2022
}}

'''Inayat Khan''' (born 19 October 1922) was a Pakistani cricketer who played [[first-class cricket]] from 1941 to 1950, and played for [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]] in the years before Pakistan played [[Test cricket]].

==Cricket career==
Khan was born in [[Lahore]]. His father Saleh Mohammad played first-class cricket as an all-rounder for [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]] in the [[Bombay Quadrangular]] and the Lahore Tournament between 1912 and 1930.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40774/40774.html | title = Saleh Mohammad | publisher=CricketArchive| access-date = 27 January 2022}}</ref>

Khan was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler. He scored his only first-class [[Century (cricket)|century]], 100 [[retired out]], for North Zone in the Zonal Quadrangular Tournament in February 1946. His [[Captain (cricket)|captain]], [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi|the Nawab of Pataudi]], declared when Khan reached his hundred, but when both teams had returned to the dressing rooms the umpires pointed out that under the Laws at the time no team could declare on the first day of a three-day game. North Zone had to return to the wicket but Khan and Pataudi, the two [[not out]] batsmen, chose to retire.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17573.html | title = East Zone v North Zone 1945-46 | publisher=CricketArchive| access-date = 27 January 2022}}</ref> An economical bowler, Khan took figures of 55–29–59–3 for [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]] against [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]] in November 1944.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1944-45/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/SIND_BOM_RJI_03-05NOV1944.html | title = Sind v Bombay 1944-45 | publisher=ESPNcricinfo| access-date = 27 January 2022}}</ref>

Khan was selected to play for [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]] in the first of two matches against [[Sri Lanka cricket team|Ceylon]] in March 1950. He scored a [[duck (cricket)|duck]] in the first match, which Pakistan won by an innings, and was not selected for the second.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1949-50/CEYLON_IN_PAK/PAK_CEYLON_UT1_25-28MAR1950.html | title = Pakistan v Ceylon 1949-50 | publisher=ESPNcricinfo| access-date = 27 January 2022}}</ref> He played no further first-class cricket.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=40756}}

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[[Category:1922 births]]
[[Category:Possibly living people]]
[[Category:Pakistani cricketers]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Lahore]]
[[Category:Northern India cricketers]]
[[Category:Muslims cricketers]]
[[Category:Punjab (Pakistan) cricketers]]
[[Category:Sindh cricketers]]

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