Mudassar Nazar in uncharacterisitic action

And they said Geoffrey Boycott was slow and selfish! The Yorkshire- man certainly wasn?t known for his flashing blade, but he was positively Bothamesque compared with Mudassar.

At Lahore against England in 1977-78, the Pakistani took a yawn-inducing nine hours and 17 minutes to crawl to 114 ? still the slowest Test century of them all. That works out at less than a run every five minutes. Um . . . the match was a draw.

Perhaps Boycott and Chris Tavare weren?t so slow after all. As an exercise in application, you can?t fault him; as an exercise in entertainment, it was the sort of innings that has people wondering what the rest of us see in the summer game.