Mohammad Nazir, the previous Pakistan offspinner and umpire, has kicked the bucket. Nazir jr, as he was likewise known, kicked the bucket in Lahore after an extended disease. He was 78. He played 14 Tests and four ODIs for Pakistan. Albeit the Tests were spread across 14 years, he was best associated with the effect in his absolute first Test, against New Zealand in October 1969. Playing in Karachi on a pitch which took turn all along, Nazir got 7 for 99 in his absolute first innings. Likewise, he scored a convenient, unbeaten 29 with the bat, and was not out on 17 in the second innings too. The Test was drawn, however ended up being a critical one, in that it was the incomparable Hanif Mohammad's last Test, and his more youthful sibling Sadiq's first. "For the PCB, I express my sympathies and melancholy over the death of our previous Test cricketer Mohammad Nazir," PCB executive Mohsin Naqvi said. "We expand our most profound feelings, and offer the pain of his loved ones. His commitments for Pakistan cricket will constantly be recollected." Notwithstanding being a predictable entertainer at homegrown level, Nazir played just a single additional Test after his presentation series until November 1980, when he was picked to play in a home series against West Indies. That was another high point; he excused Viv Richards multiple times in the series, including bowled two times. Be that as it may, in the subsequent Test, in Faisalabad, Nazir was hit for three progressive sixes in an over by Sylvester Clarke. The 22 he yielded in that over was a Test record at that point. Notwithstanding taking 16 wickets in the four Tests against West Indies, Nazir was dropped once more and didn't return until anywhere close to three years after the fact, in a series in India. In the middle between, he continued to take wickets in homegrown cricket: 86 out of 1981-82, and 70 the year after that. Nazir took the remainder of his three Test five-fors in Nagpur, however just played three Tests after that - all in Australia. He wasn't on the triumphant side in a solitary one of his 14 Tests. Nazir progressed forward with the homegrown circuit from that point as he had forever been previously: a productive wicket-taker. Uncommonly, he was a one-group man, playing for Pakistan Rail lines the entire way through. He additionally looked pretty fit, taking 85 wickets in the 1985-86 season when he was on the cusp of turning 40. Nazir finished with 829 five star wickets, at a fortunate normal of 19.26. He turned into a global and a homegrown umpire not long after he resigned, remaining in five Tests and 15 ODIs.