The Cricketer was a monthly English-language cricket magazine published in Karachi, Pakistan. It was founded in 1972 by Riaz Ahmed Mansuri. The first issue was published in April 1972.[1] The magazine was initially edited by the noted, then-retired Pakistani cricketer Hanif Mohammad, and later by the statistician and cricket historian Gul Hameed Bhatti.[1]
The magazine closed in April 2008 after 36 years of publication.[2] An Urdu version of The Cricketer Pakistan was also launched in March 1979 and shut down in June 2018.