After receiving the privilege of playing Test cricket, the Pakistani cricket team played its first Test series against India in 1952.
In the second Test of the series, played in Lucknow between October 23 and 26, Pakistan defeated India by an innings, 43 runs, to the astonishment of all cricket experts who value Pakistan as a newcomer and inexperienced. Were not ready for
The two key players in the Pakistani team's victory in the Lucknow Test were opener Nazar Mohammad and medium-fast bowler Fazal Mahmood. They were both one and the same.
Nazar Mohammad had the unique honor of scoring Pakistan's first Test century in Lucknow and remained unbeaten till the end of the innings with 124 runs.
Interestingly, 30 years later, his son Mudassar Nazar also scored 152 runs in the Lahore Test against India and he too was unbeaten from the start to the end of the innings.
In the Lucknow Test, if the winning script started with Nazar Mohammad's century, it was Fazal Mahmood who completed it, scoring 52 runs in the first innings and taking seven wickets for 42 runs in the second innings.