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{{short description|Pakistani cricketer}}
{{about|the cricket player|the Guantanamo detainee|Mohammad Gul (Guantanamo captive 457)|the former shortest man in the world|Gul Mohammed}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Gul Mohammad
| image =
| caption =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1921|10|15}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British Punjab|Punjab]], [[British India]]<br>(now [[Pakistan]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1992|5|8|1921|10|15}}
| death_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], Pakistan
| heightft = 5
| heightinch = 5
| batting = Left-hand bat
| bowling = Left-arm medium pace
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 9
| runs1 = 205
| bat avg1 = 12.81
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 34
| deliveries1 = 77
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 12.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 2/21
| catches/stumpings1= 3
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 118
| runs2 = 5,614
| bat avg2 = 33.81
| 100s/50s2 = 12/21
| top score2 = 319
| deliveries2 = 7,295
| wickets2 = 107
| bowl avg2 = 27.20
| fivefor2 = 3
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 6/60
| catches/stumpings2= 60
| country = India
| country2 = Pakistan
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1946–52
| internationalspan2 = 1956
| testdebutfor = India
| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 22 June
| testdebutyear = 1946
| testcap = 27
| testcap2 = 24
| lasttestdate = 11 October
| lasttestfor = Pakistan
| lasttestagainst = Australia
| lasttestyear = 1956
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/40329.html Cricinfo
| date = 13 June
| year = 2016
}}

'''Gul Mohammad''' {{Audio|Gul_Mohammad.ogg|pronunciation}}, sometimes referred to as '''Gul Mahomed''', (15 October 1921, [[Lahore]] – 8 May 1992, Lahore) played [[Test cricket]] for [[Indian cricket team|India]] and [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]]. He was educated at [[Government Islamia College|Islamia College, Lahore]].

Gul Mohammad was a small man who stood only 5' 5, but a brilliant attacking left-handed batsman and fine fielder in the covers. He made his first-class debut at the age of 17 and hit 95 in his first match in the [[Bombay Pentangular]]. In 1942/43, he scored 144 for Bijapur Famine XI against Bengal Cyclone XI and added 302 with [[Vijay Hazare]]. On a slow, flat wicket, the first innings of the two teams added up to 1376 runs.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17381.html]

Gul Mohammad's most famous innings is the 319 that he scored for Baroda against Holkar in the final of the 1946/47 [[Ranji Trophy]] [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17974.html]. Gul joined Vijay Hazare with the score at 91 for 3 and when he was out 533 minutes later, they had added 577 runs, then a world record for any wicket in [[first-class cricket]]. Hazare scored 288 in ten and a half hours. During the course of the innings, they bettered the Indian record of 410 between [[Lala Amarnath]] and [[Rusi Modi]] [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17930.html] and the world record of 574* by [[Frank Worrell]] and [[Clyde Walcott]]. [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17567.html]

Gul Mohammad toured [[England]] in 1946 and [[Australia]] in 1947/48 and played Test matches without much success. He highest score was 34 in the second innings at [[Adelaide Oval|Adelaide]] while Hazare was scoring his second hundred of the match at the other end.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18360.html] In 1952/53, he played for India in two Tests of Pakistan's first series. For a time, he was a professional with Ramsbottom in the Lancashire League.

He continued to play in Ranji Trophy until he took [[Pakistan]] citizenship in 1955. {{Ref|CMJ}} He played one Test for Pakistan, against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] in 1956/57 where he scored 12 and 27 not out and hit the winning runs.

He later turned to cricket administration. He was in director board of the [[Gaddafi Stadium]] in Lahore till 1987 and then a cricket coach in the Punjab Sports Board. Gul Mohammad died of [[Hepatocellular carcinoma|liver cancer]].

==See also==
*[[List of cricketers who have played for two international teams]]

==External links==
* [http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/40329.html Cricinfo Profile]
* Mihir Bose, ''A History of Indian Cricket''
* {{note|CMJ}}Christopher Martin-Jenkins, ''The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers''
* [http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/106028.html Remembering Gul Mohammad] (Retrieved 10 September 2005)
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/747/747.html Cricketarchive Profile]
* [http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/255583.html Article on the 577 stand]

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