Unbelievable batsman Hanif Mohammad kicks the bucket at 81

Unbelievable batsman Hanif Mohammad kicks the bucket at 81

KARACHI: Pakistan's finest batsman Hanif Mohammad passed away at the Aga Khan Hospital here on Thursday following a three-week-long fight with respiratory difficulties and blockage. 

The 81-year-old, who was experiencing lung tumor for which he experienced surgery in London in 2013, was moved to the ventilator before after his wellbeing weakened. 

Hanif was admitted to the Aga Khan Hospital three weeks prior after he confronted breathing issues, child Shoaib Mohammad told Dawn.com on Jul 31. 

Conceived on Dec 21, 1934, in Junagarh, Hanif played 55 Test matches for Pakistan somewhere around 1952 and 1969, averaging a fine 43.98 including twelve hundreds. 

The privilege gave batsman was one of the nation's initial cricketers who assumed an indispensable part in Pakistan accomplishing Test status. 

Pakistan was conceded Test status after the group rode on Hanif's precious 64 keeps running at the top-request to win a four-day five star challenge against Marylebone Cricket Club, pursuing down an overwhelming 288-run focus at the Karachi Gymkhana cricket ground. 

Viewed as the most conservative batsman on the planet amid his playing days, Hanif could bowl with both arms. He likewise kept stumps at the focused level at different events. 

Hanif, a man of steel like nerves, regularly wilted tempests with his faultless skill when Pakistan's batting line-ups collapsed.His sensational 16-hour-long 337 against West Indies at Bridgetown – which spared Pakistan from up and coming thrashing – will be dependably alive in history books. It remains the longest innings in Test history and was the longest in all top notch cricket for more than 40 years. 

It was likewise the main Test match occurrence of a triple century in a group's second innings until it was squared with by New Zealand's Brendon McCullum against India in 2014. 

In 1958-59, Hanif surpassed Sir Don Bradman's record for the most elevated individual five star innings. Hanif made 499 preceding being run out endeavoring his five hundredth run. This imprint remained for over 35 years before being surpassed by Brian Lara in 1994. 

On the whole, Hanif made 55 five star hundreds of years and completed with a solid profession normal of 52.32. 

Hanif was named as Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1968. In January 2009, Hanif, alongside two other Pakistani players (Imran Khan and Javed Miandad) were a piece of the inaugural cluster of 55 inductees into the ICC's Hall of Fame.