Taslim Arif
Taslim Arif Abbasi was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 6 Tests and 2 One Day Internationals in 1980. His score of 210* for Pakistan against Australia stood for more than 20 years as the highest score made by a wicket-keeper in Test cricket, until broken by Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara. Arif died in Karachi from a lung infection in 2008. He was buried at Faisal Cantonment cemetery, in Karachi He have 2 sons elder Imran Arif living in london and working as an education counsellor and younger Ainan Arif himself a cricketer and playing for National bank of Pakistan and a daughter living in USA.Record
In September 1978, playing for National Bank against Punjab in Lahore, before he had made his international debut, Arif became the first Pakistani wicket keeper to effect ten dismissals in a first-class match. His record was later broken by Wasim Yousoufi in 1997.
