Misbah awarded honorary life MCC membership

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KARACHI:

The terrific honor was conferred on him, on Tuesday, at the Lord’s during the rain-interrupted match between Afghanistan and the MCC XI. Misbah-ul-Haq was a member of the MCC XI, captained by New Zealand’s Brendon McCulum.

The MCC has awarded Honorary Life Membership to hundreds of the finest cricketers and men and women associated with the game.

Misbah-ul-Haq is the 22^nd Pakistani to have received this honor.  Before him, the following have been awarded with the MCC membership.

1.       J. Burki (1974)

2.       Nasim-ul-Ghani (1978)

3.       Saeed Ahmed (1981)

4.       Raes-Ud-Din Ahmed (1982)

5.       Mushtaq Mohammed (1982)

6.       Intikhab Alam (1983)

7.       Wasim Bari (1986)

8.       Asif Iqbal (1986)

9.       Majid J. Khan (1986)

10.   Sadiq Mohammed (1988)

11.   Zaheer Abbas (1990)

12.   A.A.K. Abbasi (1991)

13.   Imran Khan (1993)

14.   Mudassar Nazar (1994)

15.   Abdul Qadir (1994)

16.   Iqbal Qasim (1995)

17.   E. Mani (2003)

18.   W. Akram (2005)

19.   W. Younis (2005)

20.   J. Miandad (2006)

21.   R.H. Raja (2015)

 Misbah-ul-Haq played 75 Test matches for Pakistan between 2001 and 2017, scoring 5222 runs with 10 centuries. He retired earlier this year as Pakistan’s most successful Test captain with 26 triumphs.

Video credit: Ihtisham ul Haq (@iihtishamm)