| Record number of matches played in Quaid-e-Azam
Trophy
For Pakistan, the 1999-00
cricketing season has been one of the longest; the month of May is here, The Cricketer
Annual is out but the season still continues. Of course, the programme at home has ended,
but the Pakistan team is busy elsewhere, and will be till as late as August. The main
feature of the domestic season, the first of the new millennium, was that a record number
of matches were played in Pakistans premier first-class cricket competition
for the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. A total of 23 teams participated and 122 games in all,
including the final, had been scheduled.
In the end, this total got reduced to 120 matches actually staged as two fixtures were abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain. In addition, the Sri Lanka touring team played four first-class matches in Pakistan, three Tests and a side game against a PCB XI at Rawalpindi. This added up the total to 124. The season for Pakistani cricketers at various levels started in July last year, when a team styled as the Pakistan Emerging Players went through a successful tour of Denmark and Holland. The programme at home kicked off in September with the Tissot Cup National One-day Tournament, which used to be known as the Wills Cup. Of course, in the summer just past, Pakistan had taken part in the World Cup in England where they ended as runners-up to Australia in the final at Lords and then went to Toronto where, in a three-match One-day International series, they gained a clean sweep over the West Indies. The only first-class competition of the home season was the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship where PIA took the title defeating Habib Bank in the final. Heres how the various winners emerged in the other tournaments: Tissot Cup National One-day Tournament PIA, Pepsi Junior Cup National Under-19 Grade-I Championship (limited-over section) Lahore City Whites, Pepsi Junior Cup National Under-19 Grade-I Championship Karachi Whites, Pepsi Junior Cup National Under-19 Grade-II Championship Lahore City Blues, PCB Patrons Trophy Championship (non-first-class) Lahore City Blues and National Bank Cup One-day Tournament Habib Bank. After the matches in Canada, the Pakistan senior team won the Coca-Cola Trophy title in Sharjah in October and then toured Australia for three Tests (all lost) in November. Pakistan reached the finals of the Carlton & United One-day Series in Australia, only to be beaten convincingly by the hosts. Following the home series against Sri Lanka Pakistan were beaten in all three One-day Internationals and Sri Lanka won the Test rubber 2-1 Pakistan achieved a triumph in Sharjah in March clinching the Coca-Cola Cup with a win against South Africa in the final. More elation was on the way: late last month Pakistan won the Cable & Wireless One-day Series in the West Indies. Other Pakistani teams that went abroad in the 1999-00 season included a Pakistan A side that toured Abu Dhabi in November to play a triangular series against India and Sri Lanka (they finished third as Sri Lanka A took the trophy) and, in January, Pakistan participated in the Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka that was won by India. Pakistan lost to Sri Lanka in the semifinals by just 10 runs. We are giving here the leading first-class averages
of players on Pakistan soil during the 1999-00 season. Only one batsman, Younis Khan of
Habib Bank, scored more than a thousand runs while three players took 50 wickets or more,
National Banks Athar Laeeq finishing with a haul of 51. |
| LEADING BATSMEN (Qualification: 300 runs) | ||||||||
| Batsmen | M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Avge | 100s | 50s |
| Ghaffar Kazmi (LCW) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 352 | 125 | 117.33 | 3 | - |
| Imran Abbas (ADBP) | 9 | 14 | 3 | 983 | 204* | 89.36 | 4 | 5 |
| Imran Mohammad (Cust) | 5 | 5 | 1 | 353 | 210* | 88.25 | 1 | 2 |
| Mohammad Haroon (LD) | 5 | 8 | 2 | 519 | 130 | 86.5 | 2 | 3 |
| Shoaib Mohammad (PIA) | 11 | 15 | 3 | 971 | 180 | 80.91 | 5 | 1 |
| Naseem Khan (Cust) | 7 | 9 | 2 | 547 | 127 | 78.14 | 2 | 5 |
| Younis Khan (HB/PCB/Pak) | 14 | 21 | 4 | 1315 | 202* | 77.35 | 6 | 3 |
| Naumanullah (Red) | 8 | 11 | 2 | 642 | 171* | 71.33 | 3 | 2 |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) | 3 | 6 | 1 | 355 | 138 | 71 | 1 | 2 |
| Rashid Latif (AB/PCB) | 9 | 12 | 2 | 674 | 131* | 67.4 | 2 | 3 |
| Fareed Butt (LCW) | 6 | 7 | 1 | 396 | 167* | 66 | 1 | 3 |
| Hasan Adnan (WAPDA) | 10 | 14 | 2 | 760 | 130 | 63.33 | 2 | 6 |
| Faisal Naved (Guj) | 7 | 14 | 3 | 688 | 151* | 62.54 | 4 | 2 |
| Tariq Mahmood (LCW) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 301 | 101 | 60.2 | 1 | 2 |
| Shadab Kabir (Red) | 9 | 11 | 2 | 538 | 137* | 59.77 | 2 | 3 |
| Rizwan-uz-Zaman (PIA) | 11 | 15 | 2 | 768 | 200* | 59.07 | 5 | - |
| Asif Mujtaba (PIA) | 11 | 13 | 2 | 636 | 240 | 57.81 | 1 | 4 |
| Hasan Raza (HB) | 8 | 10 | 1 | 505 | 125 | 56.11 | 2 | 3 |
| Asim Kamal (KW) | 10 | 17 | 4 | 728 | 122* | 56 | 3 | 3 |
| Yasir Hameed (Pesh) | 9 | 16 | 0 | 895 | 154 | 55.93 | 3 | 3 |
| Qaiser Abbas (PR) | 6 | 9 | 1 | 447 | 168 | 55.87 | 1 | 3 |
| Saeed Anwar (KRL) | 11 | 16 | 4 | 669 | 177 | 55.75 | 2 | 2 |
| Sajjad Akbar (PNSC) | 9 | 10 | 1 | 493 | 99 | 54.77 | - | 5 |
| Tariq Mohammad (NB) | 7 | 12 | 3 | 492 | 165* | 54.66 | 2 | 1 |
| Afsar Nawaz (KB) | 10 | 17 | 2 | 819 | 178 | 54.6 | 1 | 5 |
| Saleem Mughal (LD) | 9 | 15 | 2 | 699 | 193 | 53.76 | 3 | 3 |
| Maqsood Raza (LD) | 9 | 14 | 2 | 640 | 115 | 53.33 | 1 | 5 |
| Mujahid Jamshed (HB) | 9 | 14 | 0 | 729 | 158 | 52.07 | 3 | 4 |
| Mohammad Ramzan (PNSC) | 10 | 15 | 0 | 774 | 150 | 51.6 | 3 | 3 |
| Akhtar Sarfraz (NB) | 8 | 12 | 2 | 515 | 148 | 51.5 | 2 | 1 |
| Hasnain Qayyum (Red) | 10 | 13 | 1 | 614 | 161* | 51.16 | 1 | 3 |
| Sohail Jaffer (PIA) | 11 | 12 | 3 | 460 | 72 | 51.11 | - | 5 |
| Shahid Anwar (NB) | 10 | 15 | 0 | 762 | 160 | 50.8 | 3 | 1 |
| Bilal Moin (WAPDA) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 302 | 128 | 50.33 | 1 | 2 |
| Adil Nisar (WAPDA) | 10 | 15 | 1 | 703 | 158 | 50.21 | 2 | 2 |
| Suleman Huda (KW) | 10 | 17 | 1 | 792 | 166 | 49.5 | 2 | 4 |
| Mansoor Rana (ADBP) | 10 | 14 | 1 | 636 | 120 | 48.92 | 2 | 3 |
| Iqbal Imam (PNSC) | 10 | 14 | 2 | 575 | 88 | 47.91 | - | 6 |
| Shoaib Khan (Pesh) | 9 | 15 | 2 | 622 | 127 | 47.84 | 1 | 3 |
| Azam Khan (Cust) | 10 | 13 | 2 | 526 | 93 | 47.81 | - | 5 |
| Ali Naqvi (Cust) | 10 | 14 | 0 | 669 | 111 | 47.78 | 2 | 4 |
| Saad Wasim (KB) | 8 | 13 | 0 | 620 | 152 | 47.69 | 2 | 2 |
| Aamer Sohail (AB/Pak) | 10 | 16 | 0 | 759 | 164 | 47.43 | 3 | 2 |
| Ijaz Ahmed (AB) | 10 | 16 | 1 | 706 | 188 | 47.06 | 1 | 3 |
| Imran Nazir (PR) | 6 | 11 | 1 | 469 | 164 | 46.9 | 1 | 3 |
| Hanif-ur-Rehman (NB) | 6 | 10 | 1 | 417 | 120 | 46.33 | 2 | 2 |
| Intikhab Alam (KRL) | 7 | 8 | 0 | 368 | 106 | 46 | 1 | 1 |
| Saleem Elahi (HB) | 6 | 9 | 0 | 412 | 140 | 45.77 | 2 | 1 |
| Ashar Zaidi (Ibd) | 6 | 10 | 0 | 455 | 127 | 45.5 | 1 | 2 |
| Babar Zaman (LCW) | 8 | 12 | 0 | 536 | 108 | 44.66 | 1 | 4 |
| Tariq Aziz (WAPDA) | 10 | 14 | 0 | 618 | 194 | 44.14 | 1 | 4 |
| Taufiq Umar (PR/PCB) | 7 | 9 | 0 | 392 | 176 | 43.55 | 1 | 2 |
| Faisal Athar (PNSC) | 9 | 13 | 0 | 560 | 122 | 43.07 | 1 | 4 |
| Usman Akram (LD) | 5 | 8 | 1 | 301 | 73 | 43 | - | 3 |
| Rafatullah Mohmand (Red) | 7 | 10 | 0 | 427 | 213 | 42.7 | 1 | 1 |
| Naseer Ahmed (KRL) | 11 | 14 | 1 | 555 | 143 | 42.69 | 2 | 2 |
| Mohammad Hussain (LCW) | 7 | 12 | 1 | 459 | 69 | 41.72 | - | 6 |
| Majid Jahangir (ADBP) | 7 | 10 | 1 | 375 | 90 | 41.66 | - | 2 |
| Zia-ul-Hasan (Bwp) | 5 | 9 | 1 | 327 | 79 | 40.87 | - | 2 |
| Sajid Ali (NB) | 10 | 15 | 0 | 609 | 149 | 40.6 | 2 | 3 |
| Salman Shah (Rwp) | 10 | 18 | 4 | 558 | 127* | 39.85 | 1 | 2 |
| Moin-ul-Atiq (HB) | 5 | 9 | 1 | 315 | 91 | 39.37 | - | 2 |
| Majid Majeed (LD) | 7 | 11 | 0 | 433 | 132 | 39.36 | 1 | 2 |
| Mohammad Masroor (KW) | 10 | 17 | 1 | 619 | 150* | 38.68 | 2 | 2 |
| Aamer Hanif (AB) | 7 | 12 | 4 | 309 | 129* | 38.62 | 1 | - |
| Rizwan Malik (Guj) | 7 | 14 | 1 | 500 | 169* | 38.46 | 2 | 2 |
| Misbah-ul-Haq (Sg) | 11 | 21 | 0 | 803 | 129 | 38.23 | 1 | 5 |
| Ataullah Butt (Guj) | 6 | 11 | 0 | 413 | 150 | 37.54 | 1 | 1 |
| Shahzad Malik (Guj) | 7 | 14 | 3 | 407 | 88 | 37 | - | 3 |
| Farooq Iqbal (Fbd) | 7 | 13 | 4 | 328 | 55* | 36.44 | - | 2 |
| Nadeem Abbasi (KRL) | 9 | 11 | 2 | 326 | 91 | 36.22 | - | 1 |
| Asadullah Butt (HB) | 12 | 18 | 2 | 579 | 141 | 36.18 | 1 | 3 |
| Zahoor Elahi (ADBP) | 9 | 13 | 0 | 469 | 133 | 36.07 | 2 | 1 |
| Bilal Asad (Ibd) | 10 | 14 | 0 | 502 | 91 | 35.85 | - | 6 |
| Aaley Haider (AB) | 10 | 13 | 1 | 430 | 92 | 35.83 | - | 4 |
| Arif Mahmood (KB) | 7 | 13 | 1 | 429 | 75 | 35.75 | - | 3 |
| Mohammad Nawaz (AB) | 9 | 16 | 1 | 532 | 105 | 35.46 | 1 | 3 |
| Iqbal Sheikh (KW) | 6 | 9 | 0 | 317 | 67 | 35.22 | - | 4 |
| Taimur Khan (PR/PCB) | 10 | 16 | 2 | 492 | 139 | 35.14 | 1 | 2 |
| Atif Rauf (ADBP) | 8 | 11 | 0 | 386 | 113 | 35.09 | 1 | 2 |
| Nadeem Hussain (ADBP) | 10 | 14 | 4 | 349 | 120* | 34.9 | 1 | 1 |
| Kamran Akmal (NB) | 9 | 12 | 2 | 347 | 123* | 34.7 | 1 | 1 |
| Fida Hussain (Fbd) | 7 | 13 | 1 | 415 | 141 | 34.58 | 1 | 2 |
| Zafar Jadoon (KW) | 8 | 15 | 0 | 508 | 167 | 33.86 | 1 | 2 |
| Imran Farhat (PR) | 7 | 11 | 1 | 338 | 100 | 33.8 | 1 | 1 |
| Saadat Gul (Fbd) | 7 | 13 | 1 | 397 | 89 | 33.08 | - | 4 |
| Zulfiqar Jan (Pesh) | 7 | 11 | 1 | 329 | 63 | 32.9 | - | 2 |
| Bazid Khan (PR/PCB) | 10 | 14 | 1 | 420 | 119* | 32.3 | 1 | 3 |
| Mohammad Saleem (Fbd) | 6 | 11 | 0 | 355 | 123 | 32.27 | 1 | 1 |
| Imran Khan (KB) | 10 | 17 | 0 | 543 | 119 | 31.94 | 1 | 1 |
| Haroon Malik (Sg) | 8 | 15 | 2 | 411 | 135 | 31.61 | 1 | 1 |
| Mohammad Hafeez (Sg) | 9 | 17 | 0 | 532 | 83 | 31.29 | - | 3 |
| Masroor Hussain (AB) | 8 | 14 | 1 | 404 | 82 | 31.07 | - | 5 |
| Basit Niazi (KRL) | 7 | 11 | 0 | 341 | 114 | 31 | 2 | 1 |
| Rehan Rafiq (Bwp) | 10 | 17 | 2 | 457 | 90* | 30.46 | - | 4 |
| Ayaz Taifi (Hyd) | 8 | 16 | 0 | 481 | 98 | 30.06 | - | 4 |
| Ahmer Saeed (PR) | 8 | 12 | 1 | 324 | 105* | 29.45 | 1 | - |
| Akhtar Bangash (Hyd) | 9 | 18 | 0 | 525 | 112 | 29.16 | 1 | 3 |
| Saeed Azad (NB) | 10 | 15 | 0 | 402 | 95 | 26.8 | - | 3 |
| Azhar Hussain (Sg) | 7 | 13 | 0 | 344 | 50 | 26.46 | - | 1 |
| Inam-ul-Haq (ADBP) | 8 | 13 | 0 | 339 | 55 | 26.07 | - | 1 |
| Asif Hussain (Fbd) | 7 | 13 | 1 | 311 | 99 | 25.91 | - | 2 |
| Iftikhar Hussain (KRL) | 8 | 12 | 0 | 308 | 151 | 25.66 | 1 | - |