Aftab Baloch passed away at the age of 68 |Courtesy-Pakistan Cricket Board 
Key Highlights
- Baloch scored 428 runs in a domestic match for Sindh vs Balochistan
- Baloch only featured in two test matches for Pakistan.
- Baloch was part of the selection committee for Pakistan junior and Pakistan A sides.
Former Pakistan Test cricketer Aftab Baloch breathed his last on Monday in Karachi, Pakistan. He was 68. Baloch was a right-handed middle-order batsman and was able to bowl some right arm off-break.
Baloch is famously remembered for his heroic knock of 428 that came in a first-class match in the 1973-74 season which turned to be a major highlight of his cricket career. To date, Baloch remains among a rare list of players to have scored a 400 in first-class cricket.
Baloch was leading the Sindh side against Balochistan in that game. The former played a sublime captain’s knock before Sindh declared their innings at a mammoth score of 951 runs for the loss of 7 wickets on the board.
Baloch played two matches for Pakistan in his small international career. He made his Test debut as a teenager when he was just 16-years old against New Zealand in 1969.
He scored just 25 runs on debut and little did he know that he will have to wait six years before donning the test whites for Pakistan again.
He played his final test match against the mighty West Indies in 1975 and scored 12 and 60* not out, respectively. Even after a fifty in the second innings, he was never picked to play for Pakistan again.
Baloch had retired from cricket in 1985. His last professional cricket outing came in the Quaid-E-Azam trophy where played for PIA against NBP.
Aftab Baloch also held management positions on the board. He was also a selector of the Pakistan A and junior teams respectively.