Taslim Arif made his Pakistan debut as a batsman - when he ground out 90 and 46 against India at Calcutta in 1979-80 - but had the gloves for the rest of his Test career. In his third Test, against Australia the same winter, Taslim made a mighty seven-hour 210 not out, the highest score by a wicketkeeper in a Test Andy Flower made 232 not out in 2000-01. But with Wasim Bari a vastly superior gloveman, Taslim only played six Tests; he ended with a batting average of 62.62. He was a surprising signing for World Series Cricket's second season - uncapped and hardly a household name. Taslim died aged 53 from a lung infection.
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Taslim Arif Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	6	10	2	501	210*	62.62	1042	48.08	1	2	44	0	6	3
ODIs	2	2	0	28	24	14.00	58	48.27	0	0	-	-	1	1
FC	148	251	26	7568	210*	33.63	-	-	13	40	-	-	312	56
List A	40	39	6	853	113*	25.84	-	-	1	4	-	-	45	14

Bowling

Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Tests	6	1	30	28	1	1/28	1/28	28.00	5.60	30.0	0	0	0
ODIs	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
FC	148	-	311	212	7	4/46	-	30.28	4.09	44.4	-	0	0
List A	40	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0

Umpire & Referee

Format	Mat	Referee
FC	31	31
List A	18	18
T20s	8	8

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Recent Matches of Taslim Arif

Player

Referee

Match	Bat	Wkt	Date	Ground	Format
National Bnk vs House BFC	0	2c/1s	15-Sep-1985	Rawalpindi	List A
BCCP XI vs Australians	51 & 10	--	16-Sep-1982	Multan	FC
Pakistan vs West Indies	24	--	19-Dec-1980	Lahore	ODI # 101
Pakistan vs West Indies	0 & 18	1c/0s & 0c/0s	08-Dec-1980	Faisalabad	Test # 888
Pakistan vs West Indies	32 & 8*	1c/1s	24-Nov-1980	Lahore	Test # 886