In 1976 Pakistan beat New Zealand by six wickets in the first Test at Lahore. Javed Miandad added 25 not out to his first-innings 163 in the first match of a remarkable career. Miandad was only the second batsman (Herbert Sutcliffe was the first) whose Test average never dropped below 50. He finished with 8,832 runs at an average of 52.57.
In 1982 Rohan Kanhai established a West Indian record of playing first-class cricket for 26 years and 50 days when he took the field for an International XI in Pakistan.
In 1987 Vivian Richards scored 181 from only 125 balls in a World Cup match against Sri Lanka in Karachi. His last 81 runs came off 27 deliveries and the West Indies made 360 for 4, the highest ODI total at the time. Sri Lanka lost by 191 runs with only four wickets down. Asantha de Mel’s for 97 is the most expensive ten-over spell in ODI history.
In 1999 Curtly Ambrose recorded figures of 10-5-5-1 against Sri Lanka in the Coca-Cola Champions Trophy at Sharjah: the second most economical spell in ODI history. However West Indies almost made a mess of things chasing a small target of 179.
