High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Qasim Ali Umar (or Omar) (born February 9, 1957, Nairobi, Kenya) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 26 Tests and 31 ODIs from 1983 to 1987. Umar played his cricket both as an opening batsman as well as the ability to bat anywhere in the middle order. He made his Test debut against India at Jalandhar in 1983-84. In a career spanning four years he played in 26 Tests, scoring 1502 runs with two double centuries, one century and 5 fifties. His best score was 210 against India at Faisalabad in 1984-85, during which he also set a record second-wicket partnership of 250 with Mudassar Nazar. It was also a record individual Test score at Faisalabad, shared with Tasleem Arif. He then scored 206, also at Faisalabad, against Sri Lanka in 1985-86. He played in 31 One-Day Internationals, scoring 642 runs with the help of four half centuries, including his best ODI score of 69.