Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer)

Not to be confused with Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer, born 1996) or Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer, born 1999).

Mohammad Ilyas Mahmood (Urdu: محمد الیاس محمود ; born 19 March 1946) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in ten Test matches between 1964 and 1969.^[1]

Mohammad Ilyas

Personal information
Full name	Mohammad Ilyas Mahmood
Born	(1946-03-19) 19 March 1946 (age 79) Lahore, Punjab, British India
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Legbreak
Relations	Nazar Mohammad (uncle) Feroz Nizami (uncle) Mudassar Nazar (cousin) Imran Farhat (son-in-law)
International information
National side	Pakistan
Test debut (cap 49)	4 December 1964 v Australia
Last Test	28 February 1969 v England
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 10 82 Runs scored 441 4,607 Batting average 23.21 35.71 100s/50s 1/2 12/13 Top score 126 154 Balls bowled 84 1643 Wickets 0 53 Bowling average – 31.00 5 wickets in innings – 3 10 wickets in match – 0 Best bowling – 6/66 Catches/stumpings 6/– 48/–
Source: Cricinfo, 5 November 2021

Cricket career

Ilyas was an opening batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler. He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1961 to 1972. He scored 126 in the Third Test against New Zealand in Karachi in April 1965, when Pakistan needed 202 to win in five and half hours, and reached the target with a session to spare for the loss of only two wickets.^[2][3] His highest first-class score came in December 1964 against South Australia, when he scored 154.^[4]

He toured Australia a second time with the Pakistan team in 1972–73, but was injured early in the tour and omitted from the team before it left for the New Zealand leg of the tour. At the time he decided to stay in Australia to live, but he later returned to Pakistan.^[5] He served for a time as a national selector, but was dismissed in 2011 for allegedly violating the Pakistan Cricket Board's code of conduct.^[6]

Family

He is the father-in-law of Imran Farhat.^[7][8] Nazar Mohammad was his uncle.^[7]