Pervez Sajjad Hasan (

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: پرویز سجاد حسن; born 30 August 1942,

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) is a Pakistani former

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er who played in 19

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from 1964 to 1973.

Family

He was one of seven brothers. One of his brothers was the Pakistan Test cricketer of the 1950s

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, and another was the film director and producer Iqbal Shehzad. His brother Waqar married

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, the daughter of actress Sultana Razzaq, one of the earliest film actresses from India who acted both in silent movies and later in talkies. Jamila is also the granddaughter of India's first female film director,

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and happens to be the great niece of

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(the leading actress of India's first talkie film

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(1931)), who was the younger sister of her mother Sultana.

First-class career

Pervez Sajjad made his first-class debut in 1961–62 and took 22 wickets for 148 runs in his first two matches. He took 5 for 15 and 4 for 35 in Lahore A's innings victory over

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in the

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, then took 7 for 33 (all

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) and 6 for 65 against

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, although Combined Services won. His best innings and match figures were 7 for 23 and 8 for 89 – 15 for 112 in the match – for

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against

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in 1968–69 in a quarter-final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. He played first-class cricket until 1973–74.

Test career

Sajjad played 19 Tests for Pakistan as a cunning left-arm legspinner whose forte was being effective even on unhelpful tracks. In all, he took 59 economical wickets, including five wickets in an innings three times, always against New Zealand. At Auckland in 1964–65 he finished with 5 for 42. In the 1969–70 series, he took 22 wickets at only 15.63, including 5 for 33 at Karachi and his Test-best 7 for 74 at Lahore.

Later career

He worked as an assistant to his brother Iqbal Shehzad on several films.Richard Heller and

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, ''White on Green: Celebrating the Drama of Pakistan Cricket'', Simon & Schuster, London, 2016, p. 165. His major career was with

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, for whom when he retired he was General Manager in

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