Asif Mohammad


Asif Mohammad is a Pakistani former cricketer who played 115 first-class cricket matches in Pakistan, mostly for Pakistan [International Airlines cricket team|Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)], from 1979 to 2000. His father was the cricketer Raees Mohammad, and his uncles Wazir, Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq all played Test cricket for Pakistan.
Asif toured Zimbabwe with PIA in 1981–82, playing in both first-class matches against Zimbabwe, and scored a century in the second match. When the Sri Lanka Under-23 side toured Pakistan in 1983–84, he played in two of the three matches for the Pakistan Under-23 against the visitors. His highest first-class score was 183 for PIA against Agriculture Development Bank in the semi-final of the Patron's Trophy in 1993–94, when he batted for ten and a half hours. He was a member of PIA's title-winning teams in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1987–88 and 1989–90.
In 1994, aged 29, Asif and his brother came to England to play for Scunthorpe Town Cricket Club playing in the Lincolnshire league, he made headlines scoring a century in each of his first 3 matches for Scunthorpe. He ended the season with a record 1206 runs in the Lincolnshire League Premier Division, a record that still stands to this day, with 7 centuries from his 15 innings.