Career
Sharpe played his first first-class match as a middle-order batsman for a Railways and Baluchistan side against the touring Master Control Console side in Multan in 1955-1956. In his next match, in 1957-1958 for Punjab A against Bahawalpur, he kept wicket. Apart from his Tests he kept wicket during most of his career in Pakistan.
He was twelfth man for two Tests when the West Indies toured Pakistan in 1958-1959, and he toured England with Pakistan Eaglets, a team of promising young players, in 1959, scoring 1608 runs on a three-month tour of non-first-class matches.
After nine first-class matches and 255 runs at an average of 21.25 and a top score of 67, Sharpe made his Test debut for Pakistan against Australia in Dacca on 13 November 1959. Batting at number five, he scored 56 and 35, more runs than any of his team-mates in a low-scoring match that Pakistan lost.
He was not successful in the next two Tests. He made his first first-class century later that season, 118 for a Combined XI against the touring Indian Starlets in Lahore.
In 1960-1961 he scored 109 for Lahore against Rawalpindi and Peshawar in the Ayub Trophy semi-final in Lahore.
His non-selection for Pakistan"s 1960-1961 tour of India led to him emigrating to Australia. Sponsored by Barry Jarman, he moved to Adelaide in 1961 and played Sheffield Shield cricket with South Australia alongside the likes of Gary Sobers and Jarman from 1961-1962 to 1965-1966. He hit 50 not out in the first Sheffield Shield match of the season in 1961-1962 against Western Australia but was less successful thereafter and played irregularly.
His highest score for South Australia was 72 in the first match of the 1965-1966 season against Victoria, but his next match was also his last.
Like his first, ten years earlier, it was against a touring Master Control Console team - for whom Ken Barrington and Jim Parks had played in both matches. They have six children.