The pitch of India's neighboring country Pakistan is counted among the flattest pitches in the world, due to which any batsman can play big innings here without any problem. Through this article today, we are going to tell you about one such Pakistani batsman, who has done the feat of playing a historic innings of 499 runs on the ground of Karachi.
This Pakistani batsman has scored 499 runs
Actually, the Pakistani batsman who has played a historic innings of 499 runs is none other than former Pakistani legend Hanif Mohammad, who did this feat while playing for Karachi in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in the year 1959.
In the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Hanif Mohammad scored 499 runs after batting for 635 minutes against Bahawalpur. During this, he also hit 64 fours. Due to his innings, Karachi won the match by a huge margin of an innings and 479 runs.
Karachi had registered a spectacular victory
In the match between Karachi and Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur batted first and scored only 185 runs despite being all out in the first innings. After this, Karachi's team declared the innings after scoring 772 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in their first innings. During this, Hanif played the biggest innings of his first class career, which is still the biggest innings played by any Pakistani batsman in professional cricket. After this, Bahawalpur's team was all out for just 108 runs in the second innings as well, due to which Karachi won the match by a huge margin of an innings and 479 runs.
Hanif Mohammad created history
It is known that the innings of 499 runs scored by Hanif Mohammad is still the highest innings scored by any Pakistani batsman. However, he is not only Pakistani but also the second batsman to play the highest innings in overall first class cricket. Brian Lara's name comes at the top of this list, who has played an innings of 501* runs.
