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	He captained Pakistan in 19 Test matches from 1976–77 to 1978–79. During this time, he scored 121 and 56 and took eight wickets against [[West Indian cricket team\|West Indies]] at [[Queen's Park Oval\|Port of Spain]] in 1976–77 to inflict a rare home defeat on West Indies. Thereby Mushtaq also became only the second player after [[Garfield Sobers]] to score a century and take [[five-wicket haul\|five wickets in an innings]] in a test match on more than one occasion.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282793.html\|title= Records/test matches/all round records/a hundred and five wickets \|access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref> He led Pakistan to a 2–0 win over [[Indian cricket team\|India]] when the two countries played their first series against each other in eighteen years in 1978–79.<ref name=Dawn/>		He captained Pakistan in 19 Test matches from 1976–77 to 1978–79. During this time, he scored 121 and 56 and took eight wickets against [[West Indian cricket team\|West Indies]] at [[Queen's Park Oval\|Port of Spain]] in 1976–77 to inflict a rare home defeat on West Indies. Thereby Mushtaq also became only the second player after [[Garfield Sobers]] to score a century and take [[five-wicket haul\|five wickets in an innings]] in a test match on more than one occasion.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282793.html\|title= Records/test matches/all round records/a hundred and five wickets \|access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref> He led Pakistan to a 2–0 win over [[Indian cricket team\|India]] when the two countries played their first series against each other in eighteen years in 1978–79.<ref name=Dawn/>

	Mushtaq is regarded as one of the first cricketers to use the [[Batting (cricket)#Reverse sweep\|reverse-sweep]] in the 1970s. Though his elder brother [[Hanif Mohammad]] is sometimes credited as the inventor. Cricket coach [[Bob Woolmer]] has been credited with popularising the stroke.<ref>{{cite ~~web~~\|url=https://www.~~theguardian~~.com/~~obituaries~~/~~story/0,,2037875,00.html~~\|~~title~~=~~Bob Woolmer~~\|~~first~~=~~Paul~~\|~~last~~=~~Weaver~~\|~~date~~=~~19 March 2007~~\|access-date=10 March 2020~~\|website=The Guardian newspaper~~}}</ref><ref ~~name=Dawn~~>{{cite ~~news~~\|url=https://www.~~dawn~~.com/~~news~~/~~1043800~~ \|~~date~~=~~19 September 2013~~\|~~author~~=~~Nadeem F. Paracha~~\|~~work~~=~~Dawn~~\|~~location~~=~~Pakistan\|title=Pakistan cricket: A class, ethnic and sectarian history~~\|access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref>		Mushtaq is regarded as one of the first cricketers to use the [[Batting (cricket)#Reverse sweep\|reverse-sweep]] in the 1970s. Though his elder brother [[Hanif Mohammad]] is sometimes credited as the inventor. Cricket coach [[Bob Woolmer]] has been credited with popularising the stroke.<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news\|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1043800 \|date=19 September 2013\|author=Nadeem F. Paracha\|work=Dawn\|location=Pakistan\|title=Pakistan cricket: A class, ethnic and sectarian history\|access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2037875,00.html\|title=Bob Woolmer\|first=Paul\|last=Weaver\|date=19 March 2007\|access-date=10 March 2020\|website=The Guardian newspaper}}</ref>

	He joined [[Kerry Packer]]'s [[World Series Cricket]] in the late seventies. He went on to become a coach of [[Pakistan Cricket Team]] and led the side which reached the final of the 1999 [[Cricket World Cup]].		He joined [[Kerry Packer]]'s [[World Series Cricket]] in the late seventies. He went on to become a coach of [[Pakistan Cricket Team]] and led the side which reached the final of the 1999 [[Cricket World Cup]].

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{{short description|Pakistani cricketer}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=March 2020}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Mushtaq Mohammad
| honorific_suffix = [[Pride of Performance|PP]]
| image =
| country = Pakistan
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|11|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Junagadh]], [[Junagadh State]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|family = [[Wazir Mohammad]] (brother) [[Raees Mohammad]] (brother) [[Hanif Mohammad]] (brother) [[Sadiq Mohammad]] (brother) [[Shoaib Mohammad]] (nephew)
| death_date =
| death_place =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[legbreak]] [[googly]]
| role = [[All-rounder]]
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1959-1979

| testdebutfor = Pakistan
| testcap = 31
| testdebutagainst = West Indies
| testdebutdate = 26 March
| testdebutyear = 1959
| lasttestdate = 24 March
| lasttestyear = 1979
| lasttestfor = Pakistan
| lasttestagainst = Australia

| odidebutfor = Pakistan
| odicap = 5
| odidebutagainst = New Zealand
| odidebutdate = 11 February
| odidebutyear = 1973
| lastodidate = 3 November
| lastodiyear = 1978
| lastodifor = Pakistan
| lastodiagainst = India

| columns = 4
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 57
| runs1 = 3,643
| bat avg1 = 39.17
| 100s/50s1 = 10/19
| top score1 = 201
| deliveries1 = 5,260
| wickets1 = 79
| bowl avg1 = 29.22
| fivefor1 = 3
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/28
| catches/stumpings1 = 42/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODIs]]
| matches2 = 10
| runs2 = 209
| bat avg2 = 34.83
| 100s/50s2 = 0/1
| top score2 = 55
| deliveries2 = 42
| wickets2 = 0
| bowl avg2 = –
| fivefor2 = –
| tenfor2 = –
| best bowling2 = –
| catches/stumpings2 = 3/–
| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches3 = 502
| runs3 = 31,091
| bat avg3 = 42.07
| 100s/50s3 = 72/159
| top score3 = 303[[Not out|*]]
| deliveries3 = 47,226
| wickets3 = 936
| bowl avg3 = 24.34
| fivefor3 = 39
| tenfor3 = 2
| best bowling3 = 7/18
| catches/stumpings3 = 349/–
| column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches4 = 180
| runs4 = 4,471
| bat avg4 = 29.22
| 100s/50s4 = 1/24
| top score4 = 131
| deliveries4 = 2,090
| wickets4 = 49
| bowl avg4 = 30.24
| fivefor4 = 0
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 4/30
| catches/stumpings4 = 48/–
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Cricket]]}}
{{MedalCountry |{{PAK}}}} as Coach
{{MedalCompetition|[[ICC Cricket World Cup]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[1999 Cricket World Cup|1999 England-Wales -Ireland-Scotland-Netherlands]]|}}
| date = 14 March
| year = 2013
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/41318.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Mushtaq Mohammad''' [[Pride of Performance|PP]] ([[Urdu]]: '''مشتاق محمد'''&lrm;; born 22 November 1943) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 57 [[Test cricket|Tests]] and 10 [[One Day International|ODI]]s from 1959 to 1979. A right-handed batsman and a leg-spinner, he is one of the most successful Pakistani [[all-rounder]]s and went on to captain his country in nineteen Test matches. He was the first and to date only Pakistani to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in the same test match twice.<ref>[http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=start;qualmin1=1;qualmin2=1;qualval1=hundreds;qualval2=five_wickets;template=results;type=allround;view=match 5 for and century] espncricinfo. Retrieved 10 March 2020</ref> He was the Coach of the squad which finished as [[1999 Cricket World Cup final|runners-up]] at the [[1999 Cricket World Cup]].

Mushtaq was one of the five Mohammad brothers, four of whom ([[Wazir Mohammad|Wazir]], [[Sadiq Mohammad|Sadiq]], [[Hanif Mohammad|Hanif]] and Mushtaq himself) played [[Test cricket]] for [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]], as did Hanif's son [[Shoaib Mohammad|Shoaib]]. Another brother [[Raees Mohammad|Raees]] was once twelfth man for Pakistan. Mushtaq's mother Ameer Bee was a national badminton champion in pre-independence British India.

Mushtaq coached the [[United States national cricket team]]. He also did cricket commentary for [[Pakistani television]] for many years.

==Early life==
Born in [[Junagadh]] in what would become a border region of India with [[Pakistan]], Mushtaq as a child attended the [[Church Mission School|Church Mission High School]] in [[Karachi]].<ref name=SharifDawnRest>Sharif, Azizullah. "[https://www.dawn.com/news/521273/karachi-restoration-of-church-mission-school-ordered KARACHI: Restoration of Church Mission School ordered]" ([https://www.dawn.com/news/521273/karachi-restoration-of-church-mission-school-ordered Archive]). ''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]''. 20 February 2010. Retrieved on 10 March 2020</ref><ref name=shropcric>{{cite book|last=Percival|first=Tony|title=Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998|year=1999|publisher=A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham|page=36|isbn=1-902171-17-9}}Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.</ref>

==First-class cricket==
Mushtaq began his [[First-class cricket|first class career]] at the age of 13 years and 41 days, scoring 87 and taking 5 for 28 on debut. He played for Karachi and Pakistan International Airlines at home and went on to represent [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]] in [[county cricket]] from 1966 to 1977, scoring more than 1,000 runs in every season. In both 1967 and 1971 he stayed with the county during Pakistan tours of England, playing for the touring side only in Test matches and a few other fixtures.

Mushtaq captained [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]] between 1975 and 1977, and in 1976 led the side to victory in the [[Friends Provident Trophy|Gillette Cup]], the county's first-ever trophy, and to second place in the [[County Championship]], equalling its best-ever position. But his captaincy ended in some controversy. According to ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'', Mushtaq resigned, claiming that his future had not been made clear and that there were rumours – which turned out to be true – that former captain [[Jim Watts]] was to be reappointed for 1978. Mushtaq had in any case signed for [[World Series Cricket]] in Australia, but there were harsh words from the county's chairman about dressing room politics and Mushtaq did not play for Northants again.

He scored 72 hundreds in a 502-game first-class career. Mushtaq was the first Pakistani to score 25,000 first-class runs, ending up with 31,091, more than half of them for Northamptonshire. His record included a highest score of 303 not out. As a wrist-spinner, he bowled the legbreak, googly and flipper.

==Test cricket==
On 26 March 1959 against [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] at Lahore, Mushtaq succeeded his elder brothers [[Wazir Mohammad|Wazir]] and [[Hanif Mohammad|Hanif]] into Test cricket. Based on his publicised date of birth of 22 November 1943, he was then 15 years and 124 days, the youngest person to play Test cricket at the time. He scored 18 runs in the match and Pakistan were defeated by an innings and 156 runs. The first of his ten Test hundreds would come in his 6th Test, 101 against India in [[Feroz Shah Kotla]], when he was 17 years and 78 days old, which was the youngest age for a test centurion. The record stood for over 40 years until it was bettered by [[Mohammad Ashraful]]. His next century came against England in 1962 and he would have to wait another 9 years until his next century.

In 1970 he played for the [[Rest of the World cricket team in England in 1970|Rest of the World]] against England in the series that was later stripped of its Test status. Early in 1973, he scored 121 against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] at [[Sydney Cricket Ground|Sydney]] and 201 against [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] in his next match a month later. In the latter game, he became the only cricketer other than [[Denis Atkinson]] to score a double century and take five wickets in a [[test match (cricket)|Test match]]. He finished the year with 777 runs at the average of 86.33.

He captained Pakistan in 19 Test matches from 1976–77 to 1978–79. During this time, he scored 121 and 56 and took eight wickets against [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] at [[Queen's Park Oval|Port of Spain]] in 1976–77 to inflict a rare home defeat on West Indies. Thereby Mushtaq also became only the second player after [[Garfield Sobers]] to score a century and take [[five-wicket haul|five wickets in an innings]] in a test match on more than one occasion.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282793.html|title= Records/test matches/all round records/a hundred and five wickets |access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref> He led Pakistan to a 2–0 win over [[Indian cricket team|India]] when the two countries played their first series against each other in eighteen years in 1978–79.<ref name=Dawn/>

Mushtaq is regarded as one of the first cricketers to use the [[Batting (cricket)#Reverse sweep|reverse-sweep]] in the 1970s. Though his elder brother [[Hanif Mohammad]] is sometimes credited as the inventor. Cricket coach [[Bob Woolmer]] has been credited with popularising the stroke.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2037875,00.html|title=Bob Woolmer|first=Paul|last=Weaver|date=19 March 2007|access-date=10 March 2020|website=The Guardian newspaper}}</ref><ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1043800 |date=19 September 2013|author=Nadeem F. Paracha|work=Dawn|location=Pakistan|title=Pakistan cricket: A class, ethnic and sectarian history|access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref>

He joined [[Kerry Packer]]'s [[World Series Cricket]] in the late seventies. He went on to become a coach of [[Pakistan Cricket Team]] and led the side which reached the final of the 1999 [[Cricket World Cup]].

==Minor cricket==
Mushtaq also appeared below first-class level in Minor Counties cricket for [[Shropshire County Cricket Club|Shropshire]] in 1984-1985<ref name=shropcric/> (appearing for them in 15 matches and achieving an exact century in one match),<ref>''Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998'', p.57.</ref> as well as for [[Staffordshire County Cricket Club|Staffordshire]] and [[Northumberland County Cricket Club|Northumberland]]. He spearheaded a rare triumph for Shropshire against a first-class county in the [[NatWest Trophy]] in 1984, winning the [[man of the match]] award aged 40 for an all-round performance as the county beat [[Yorkshire CCC|Yorkshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1984/ENG_LOCAL/NWT/SHROP_YORKS_NWT_04JUL1984.html |title=Shropshire vs Yorkshire at Telford |publisher=[[ESPNCricinfo]] |access-date=22 Mar 2022}}</ref> At club level in the 1980s in England he played in the Birmingham League for Walsall and [[Old Hill Cricket Club|Old Hill]] in [[Cradley Heath]].<ref name=shropcric/>

==Awards==
*[[Pride of Performance]] Award by the [[President of Pakistan]] in 1963.<ref>[http://www.sports.gov.pk/Awards/award_cricket.htm Mushtaq Mohammad's Pride of Performance Award on Pakistan Sports Board website] Retrieved 10 March 2020</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=41318}}
*[[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]], ''Who's who of Test cricketers''

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