Sarfraz Nawaz
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 55 | 45 |
| Runs scored | 1045 | 221 |
| Batting average | 17.71 | 9.60 |
| 100s/50s | -/4 | -/- |
| Top score | 90 | 34* |
| Balls bowled | 13951 | 2412 |
| Wickets | 177 | 63 |
| Bowling average | 32.75 | 23.22 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 4 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 9/86 | 4/27 |
| Catches/stumpings | 26/- | 8/- |
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Sarfraz Nawaz Malik (Urdu: سرفراز نواز ملک) (born December 1, 1948, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 55 Tests and 45 ODIs from 1969 to 1984. He was the first to master the art of reverse swing in the seventies, the art that he passed to Imran Khan who subsequently passed it on to Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
His greatest bowling performance came in a Test match against Australia in 1979 in Melbourne when he took nine wickets in an innings. This included a remarkable spell of 33 deliveries in which he captured 7 wickets for 1 run.
In the very next match, Sarfraz successfully appealed for handled the ball against Australian opener Andrew Hilditch - an unusual dismissal, as Hilditch was at the non-striker's end at the time, and picked up the ball to return it to Sarfraz. In the 1980s, Sarfraz married the film actress, Rani.
When Bob Woolmer was killed in Jamaica, Sarfaraz Nawaz was the first person in Pakistan, who said, even before the postmortem, that he was murdered.
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