Wallis Mathias
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Wallis Mathias was a Pakistan
i cricket
er who played in 21 Tests
from 1955 to 1962. He was the first non-Muslim cricketer to play for Pakistan.
Mathias was a right-handed middle order batsman and also a gifted slips fielder. He made three half centuries in his Test career, all of them against the West Indies.
He was a prolific run scorer in Pakistani domestic cricket, making his career best score of 278 not out for Karachi Blues against Railway Greens in the 1965-66 season. Four years later he joined the newly formed National Bank cricket team
and became their first ever captain, later coaching the side.
Mathias died of a brain haemorrhage in 1994, aged 59.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in 21 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
from 1955 to 1962. He was the first non-Muslim cricketer to play for Pakistan.
Mathias was a right-handed middle order batsman and also a gifted slips fielder. He made three half centuries in his Test career, all of them against the West Indies.
He was a prolific run scorer in Pakistani domestic cricket, making his career best score of 278 not out for Karachi Blues against Railway Greens in the 1965-66 season. Four years later he joined the newly formed National Bank cricket team
National Bank of Pakistan cricket team
National Bank of Pakistan cricket team are a first-class cricket side, one of the most successful in Pakistani domestic cricket. They have won each of the 3 trophies on offer at least once and have achieved 14 tournament wins in total...
and became their first ever captain, later coaching the side.
Mathias died of a brain haemorrhage in 1994, aged 59.