ISLAMABAD (AP) " Hanif Mohammad, Pakistan cricket's "Little Master" who lasted 970 minutes in what is still the longest innings in test history, died Thursday. Hanif played the longest individual test innings against West Indies at Barbados in 1958, scoring 337 runs. Hanif played alongside his elder brother Wazir Mohammad in Pakistan's first-ever test " against India at New Delhi in 1952. His two younger brothers " Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad " were in the same team when Hanif played his last test against New Zealand at Karachi in 1969. "The entire cricketing fraternity, in this country and all over the cricketing world, is in mourning over the sad demise of Hanif Mohammad," he said in a statement.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 11, 2016 14:03 UTC