pakistani cricket player: Javed Miandad

Javed Miandad Biography
Mohammad Javed Miandad Khan (born June 12, 1957), popularly called Javed Miandad, was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He had a long career as an international cricketer for Pakistan between 1975 and 1996, and had 3 mildly successful but controversial coaching runs with the team as well. He made his Test debut against New Zealand at Lahore on October 9, 1976 and one-day international debut against West Indies at Birmingham in Cricket World Cup 1975. He was named as one of the cricketers of the year in 1982 by Wisden.
Miandad made a glorious debut with a century and later slammed a double century in the same series to set up a new record of becoming the youngest ever to score a double century. Miandad created the record of scoring more than 100 runs on debut at the youngest age. He scored a century in his first appearance against India in the course of which he completed 1000 runs in 23 innings to become the second youngest to score 1000 runs at the age of 21 years and 26 days.
Javed Miandad played 124 Tests and had most innings for a Pakistani (189), scoring most runs for a Pakistani (8,832) with the best average for a Pakistani 52.57 with 23 centuries and 43 fifties. Miandad is one of only two batsmen (the other being Herbert Sutcliffe) to maintain an average of above 50 throughout a career of more than 20 innings. He scored six double centuries which are the maximum by a Pakistani, and had a highest score of 280 not out versus India.

Miandad was quite simply one of the greatest batsmen the game has known. His test batting average of over fifty was in an era when that meant something - bowling attacks were strong (he faced Denis Lillee, Richard Hadlee, and the great West Indians in his time) and no test nation was a walk-over (no Zimbabwe or Bangladesh then). Together with Imran Khan, Miandad helped Pakistan become the only team capable of taking on the might of the West Indies in the 1980s.
Javed Miandad