Pakistani Cricketer Shahid Mahmood dies at aged 81.
Shahid Mahmood, the first Pakistan player to have taken all ten wickets in a first-class innings, has died in New Jersey on Sunday 13 December 2020. Mahmood was 81, and had achieved the feat of taking all ten wickets in 1969 during a career that spanned from 1956 to 1970. He toured England with Pakistan in 1962, playing one Test as an opener, which remained his only international game.
He went on to play domestic cricket till 1970, making 3,117 runs in first-class cricket at an average of 31.80 with five hundreds and 15 fifties.
Mahmood made 163 runs at 54.33 in his final season in 1969-70, and then moved out of Pakistan to settle in USA.
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