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Indian award for Nisar


By Our Sports Correspondent

LAHORE,Oct15: The Cricket Club of India Limited will posthumously
award a Pakistani fast bowler, late Muhammad Nisar, for taking five
wickets while representing the joint Indian cricket team before
partition.

The club will give the award to late Nisar's son in a function to be
held at Mumbai, India on Oct 19.

According to a press release, Nisar holds the record of bowling very
first ball in Test for India including very first to claim wicket and
claiming five wickets in an innings.

In total, Nisar played six Tests and took 25 wickets including three
hauls of five wickets with five for 90 as his best. He played all his
six Tests against England.

Also be honoured during the unction is Indian former skipper Kapil Dev
under whose leadership India won the World Cup in 1983.