Mohsin Khan (Pakistani actor and cricketer)
Mohsin Hasan Khan is a Pakistani cricket coach, former actor and former cricketer who played in 48 Test matches and 75 One Day Internationals between 1977 and 1986 mainly as an opening batsman.
Early and personal life
Born in Karachi to a father who was an officer in the Pakistan Navy and a United States-educated mother who was a teacher and vice-principal, Mohsin excelled at sports early on, in tennis, swimming and cricket, and even went on to become junior badminton champion of Pakistan.Mohsin married Bollywood movie star Reena Roy in 1983. He divorced Roy in the 1990s and gained custody of their daughter, Sanam. He later remarried and lost the custody of the daughter. Mohsin currently lives in Karachi, Pakistan and his daughter, Sanam, now lives with her mother in India. He had named his daughter Jannat, but she is now called Sanam.
Cricket career
International career
Playing as the opener for Pakistan against India at Lahore in 1982–83, he scored 101 not out of Pakistan's second-innings total of 135/1. This is the lowest team score in Test cricket to have included a century.Mohsin was one of a minority of South Asian players to come to terms with conditions in Australia and England, scoring two consecutive centuries in Australia in 1983/84 and becoming the first Pakistani batsman to score a Test double century at Lord's, which he did earlier in 1982.
Writing in 1998 for Dawn News, Lateef Jafri called him a "tall and elegant-looking opener" and that he "was a delightful stroke-maker and perhaps none could hit the ball with such abandon and success all round the wicket."
In 2020, sportswriter Shamya Dasgupta lists Mohsin among Pakistan’s most stylish batsmen, noting that he retired at 31 to pursue acting in India and highlighting his performance on the 1983–84 tour of Australia, where he scored 390 runs at 43.33 against a pace attack including Dennis Lillee, Geoff Lawson, Rodney Hogg and Carl Rackemann; Dasgupta argues that his height, technique against bounce, and elegance set him apart and that a longer career would have further benefited Pakistan.
In 2020, Wisden ranked Mohsin and Mudassar Nazar ninth among the best opening partnerships, noting their 54 Test innings together at an average stand of 39.55. The piece characterizes Mudassar as technically orthodox and durable, and Mohsin as stylish and fluent, arguing that their steady accumulation, rather than expansive strokeplay, made them a dependable pairing that helped signal Pakistan’s future approach.