He was to give the visiting Australians a similar thrashing in 1956-57 when his 13-114 in 75 overs helped deliver Pakistan another renowned first win.Mahmood succeeded to the captaincy in 1958 and led his nation in 10 Test matches until 1961, when age took toll of his stamina and strength. On retirement he continued to serve his people as a senior police officer. He will also be remembered for his strikingly vivid green eyes.Derek Hodgson. As a lower-order batsman, he would be a dangerous hitter against all but the best bowlers.He attended Islama College, Lahore, and before Partition played for Punjab and Northern India in the Ranji Trophy. Mahmood was expected to tour Australia with India in 1947-48, but stood down as Pakistan emerged as an independent nation. In 1949-50 he led the Pakistan attack against Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and his name first registered with English followers in 1951-52 when, playing against MCC in Karachi, he took six for 40 in 26 overs. Such feats did much to accelerate Pakistan's rise to Test match ranking.Pakistan made their first official tour of England in 1954, by which time Mahmood's ability was recognised worldwide, and he lived up to that reputation by taking 77 wickets in 16 first-class matches at an average of 17.53.

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For most of his career, Mahmood lived up to them.Although a more wiry figure than Bedser, like him Mahmood bowled right-armed, fast-medium. He, too, was a master of nagging length, an accurate line and carried a full armoury, including leg-cutters and break-backs. Bowling on matting, he was devastating - "unplayable" according to one visiting Englishman - and he had the intelligence and diligence to adapt to whatever natural surfaces were set before him around the world.Mahmood also had that other prime virtue in a Test bowler, a patient cheerfulness in adversity. For the first 20 years of Pakistan's existence, the cricketer Fazal Mahmood strode centre-stage for the young nation to all the acclamation of a Mogul emperor. He was explained to other cricket nations as "Pakistan's Alec Bedser", but even the lion of Surrey hardly carried as much of his country's hopes and expectations. Fazal Mahmood, cricketer and policeman: born Lahore, India 18 February 1927; married (one son, two daughters); died Lahore, Pakistan 30 May 2005. The compromise also included a guarantee that by 10 June, staff at BBC Broadcast, the digital transmission business in the process of being sold off, will have clear assurances that their pension rights will be protected.Leaders of all three unions agreed to call off a 48-hour walkout planned for this week, so that staff representatives could scrutinise the package.

But none of the organisations was prepared to recommend the offer officially.. Without the backing of the technicians' union, it would be much more difficult to affect outside broadcasts such as the coverage of the Wimbledon tennis championships.An offer tabled by the BBC, after a 24-hour stoppage last week, proposes a one-year moratorium on compulsory redundancies and a postponement of at least two years of the sale of BBC Resources. The craft union Amicus might reject the proposals, or argue that they should be put out for consultation to members.Leaders of the technicians' union Bectu are also due to meet, but the organisation's officials believe the BBC proposals may be enough to avoid new disruption by their members.Any split in the united front so far shown by the unions would limit the effectiveness and scope of the employees' protests.In the absence of industrial action by technicians, journalists will have to concentrate their fire on areas of strength that would involve the disruption of national and regional news programmes. BBC radio and television is expected to face fresh industrial action by journalists protesting over plans to axe 4,000 jobs. Springer said: "The rule on my TV show is you have to be able to watch it with the sound off. If you still kinda know what's going on, that's compelling."The Jerry Springer Show, launched in the US in 1991, is watched by 25 million Americans and syndicated to 40 countries..