Hamilton Masakadza or Qasim Omar ?

This is a random post, containts 'factoids that may only interest me'.

Masakadza is being wrongly recognized as the first to a feat that rightfully belongs to Omar. On All Today's yesterdays, Cricinfo's trip-down-the-memory-lane piece, they credit Hamilton Masakadza as the first black African test player to have scored a century. Normally I'd have simply made a mental note of this stat but this one seemed odd.

I remember Omar as a dark-skinned, curly-haired cricketer born in Nairobi. But is he black? I read somewhere that he's a Makrani - dark complexioned people living in parts of Pakistan. They are an African diaspora living in the western district of Makran in Pakistan. That is fascinating stuff btw.

I'm saying that Omar by virtue of being born in Kenya is the first black player from Africa to score a test century. Do you think the feat should be reatrributed to Omar?

Arun
P.S I've written to Steven Lynch of Cricinfo with all this info to see if they'd credit Qasim Omar for the feat.