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He came to the crease with the score at 98 for 6, completed his century just before stumps on the first day, then was last man out early on the second day.
He came to the crease with the score at 98 for 6, completed his century just before stumps on the first day, then was last man out early on the second day.
He is the youngest player in history to score a first-class century. On 15 November 1968, making his first-class debut in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, Akram scored 111 in the first innings for Khairpur against Quetta in Sukkur. Nobody else scored a century.
Akram was run out for a duck in the second innings, beginning a run of low scores (0, 6, 0, 4, 0, 15, 1, 5, 16) that ended when, batting at number three, he top-scored for Khairpur with 59 out of a total of 132 in the second innings against Rawalpindi Blues in the Ayub Trophy in 1969-1970.
In 1973-1974, in a BCCP Patron"s Trophy match against Commerce Bank, Akram top-scored in each innings with 33 and 102 in an innings defeat. He also took three catches and opened the bowling.
lieutenant was Khairpur"s last first-class match. Later that season he represented Sind against Baluchistan in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy.
Akram, coming to the crease with the score at 828 for 5, was one of Sind"s few failures with the bat, but he took the last wicket of the match.
In his brief innings the 17-year-old Akram partnered the 16-year-old Javed Miandad, who was proceeding towards his maiden first-class century. The towns of Khairpur and Sukkur are about 30 kilometres apart in northern Sindh province, so when Sukkur made their first-class debut in 1974-1975 they effectively replaced Khairpur in first-class cricket, and Akram was one of several former Khairpur players who appeared for the new team He captained Sukkur in their match against Hyderabad in the Sikandar Ali Bhutto Cup in 1975-1976 although he was still only 19.
Later that season he played two matches for Pakistan Universities in the BCCP Patron"s Trophy.
After a gap of nine years he played his last first-class match, captaining Sukkur to an innings thrashing by Karachi Whites in 1984-1985. lieutenant was the only match he played after turning 20.