Majid Jahangir Khan () is a former
cricketer, a former captain of the
Pakistan cricket team and one of the most fearless opening batsman produced by Pakistan. Khan's first-class career spanned from 1961 to 1985. He played 63 Tests for Pakistan, scoring 3,931 runs and made 8 centuries, scored over 27,000 first-class runs and made 73 first-class centuries, with 128 fifties. Majid played his last test for
Pakistan in January 1983 against
India at
Gaddafi Stadium,
Lahore and his last
One Day International (ODI) was in July 1982 against
England at
Old Trafford, Manchester.
== Early life ==
Born on 28 September 1946 in
Ludhiana, in the state of
Punjab in India, Khan grew up in
Lahore, the capital of the
Punjab in Pakistan. His father,
Jahangir Khan, had played Test cricket for British India before the
independence of
Pakistan in 1947. Majid Khan started his career as a pace bowler, but a back injury and doubts over his technique converted him into an off-spin bowler and batsman.〔Omar Noman, ''Pride and Passion: An Exhilarating Half Century of Cricket in Pakistan'', OUP, Karachi, 1998, p. 120.〕 He also played for
Glamorgan and
Cambridge University in Britain, for
Queensland in Australia, and in Pakistan for
Pakistan International Airlines,
Rawalpindi and the province of
Punjab.
Majid's father, Dr. Jahangir Khan, famously killed a bird in flight while bowling during an MCC vs. Cambridge University match in 1936. This bird is now part of the permanent MCC museum exhibit at Lord's Cricket ground. Dr. Jahangir Khan was the Chief Selector of
then Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan (BCCP) when Majid Khan was close to national selection. Dr. Jahangir Khan resigned from his post to maintain the impartiality of the Cricket Board during selection.
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