Gul Mohammad
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Gul Mohammad , sometimes referred to as Gul Mahomed, (15 October 1921, Lahore
Lahore
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– 8 May 1992, Lahore) played Test cricket
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for India
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and Pakistan
Pakistani cricket team
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Gul Mohammad was a small man who stood only 5' 5, but a brilliant attacking left-handed batsman and fine fielder in the covers. He made his first class debut at the age of 17 and hit 95 in his first match in the Bombay Pentangular. In 1942/43, he scored 144 for Bijapur Famine XI against Bengal Cyclone XI and added 302 with Vijay Hazare
Vijay Hazare
Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. He captained the Indian cricket team in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953...
. On a slow, flat wicket, the first innings of the two teams added up to 1376 runs.http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17381.html
Gul Mohammad's most famous innings is the 319 that he scored for Baroda against Holkar in the final of the 1946/47 Ranji Trophy
Ranji Trophy
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http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17974.html. Gul joined Vijay Hazare with the score at 91 for 3 and when he was out 533 minutes later, they had added 577 runs, then a world record for any wicket in first class cricket. Hazare scored 288 in ten and a half hours. During the course of the innings, they bettered the Indian record of 410 between Lala Amarnath
Lala Amarnath
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and Rusi Modi
Rusi Modi
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http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17930.html and the world record of 574* by Frank Worrell
Frank Worrell
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and Clyde Walcott
Clyde Walcott
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. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17567.html
Gul Mohammad toured England
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in 1946 and Australia
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in 1947/48 and played Test matches without much success. He highest score was 34 in the second innings at Adelaide
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while Hazare was scoring his second hundred of the match at the other end.http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18360.html In 1952/53, he played for India in two Tests of Pakistan's first series. For a time, he was a professional with Ramsbottom in the Lancashire League.
He continued to play in Ranji Trophy until he took Pakistan
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citizenship in 1955. He played one Test for Pakistan, against Australia
Australian cricket team
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in 1956/57 where he scored 12 and 27 not out and hit the winning runs.
He later turned to cricket administration. He was in director board of the Gaddafi Stadium
Gaddafi Stadium
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in Lahore till 1987 and then a cricket coach in the Punjab Sports Board.
Gul Mohammad died of liver cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma
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