FIVE PAKISTAN CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR
Following its 16 years old tradition "The Cricketer" (Pakistan) announced its
five cricketers for 1991-92 in its Annual issue (May 1992).
The five cricketers chosen for this year are:
AAMER SOHAIL
MOIN KHAN
AAQIB JAVED
SHAHID SAEED
NAVEED ANJUM
Just as the Wisden choses its five cricketers of the year only on the basis
of their performacne during the "English" season on "English soil", the
Pakistan Cricketer choses its five cricketers of the year on the basis of
performances on Pakistani soil for the year concerned. Also, like the Wisden
five, a player can only be selected once in a lifetime.
Amongst earlier winners of the award are:
1976: Arif-ud-Din, Imran Khan, Iqbal Qasim, Pervez Mir, Mohammad Shafiq
1977: Asif Iqbal, Javed Miandad, Warren Lees, Majid Khan, Rashid Israr
1978: Abdul Qadir, Abdur RAqeeb, Arshad Pervez, Azmat Rana, Haroon Rasheed
1979: Sunil Gavaskar, Mushtaq Mohammad, Sarfraz Nawaz, Wasim Bari, Zaheer
Abbas
1980: Allan Border, Greg Chappell, Sikander Bakht, Taslim Arif, Wasim Raja
1981: Ashraf Ali, Sylvester Clarke, Khurshid Akhtar, Mohammad Nazir, Vivian
Richards
1982: Agha Zahid, Roy Dias, Ehtesham-ud-din, Mudassar Nazar, Tauseef Ahmed
1983: Mohinder Amarnath, Mohsin Khan, Qasim Umar, Rashid Khan, Shahid Butt
1984: Saadat Ali, Saleem Malik, Anil Dalpat, David Gower, Shoaib Mohammad
1985: RAmeez Raja, Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Tanvir Ali, Zulqarnain
1986: Ijaz Ahmad, Ijaz Faqih, Mohammad Riaz, Moin-ul-Atiq, Saleem Jaffer
1987: Ameer Akbar, NAdeem Ghauri, Raja Sarfraz, Saleem Yousuf, Shafiq Ahmad
1988: Asif Mujtaba, Graham Gooch, Khatib Rizwan, Masood Anwaar, Zahid Ahmad
1989: Aamer Malik, Akram Raza, Mansoor Akhtar, Mansoor Rana, Mushtaq Ahmad
1990: Basit Ali, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar, Sajjad Akbar, Waqar Younis
1991: Athar Laeeq, Haaris Khan, Mohammad Zahid, Rashid Latif, Sajid Ali