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Abid Ali
India (In)
Abid Ali
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type Right-arm medium fast
Tests ODIs
Matches 29 5
Runs scored 1,018 93
Batting average 20.36 31/00
100s/50s 0/6 0/1
Top score 81 70
Overs bowled  ?? 56
Wickets 47 7
Bowling average 42.12 26.71
5 wickets in innings 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 N/A
Best bowling 6/55 2/22
Catches/stumpings 32/0 0/0

As of 1 January 2006
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Syed Abid Ali (born September 9, 1941 in Hyderabad ) was an all-rounder who played cricket for India. He was a big man with a military moutache, a watchful lower order batsman, a medium pace bowler and a brilliant fielder. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In cricket, an all-rounder is a player who is good at both batting and bowling. ... Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. ...


Abid Ali attended the St. George's Grammar School and All Saints High in Hyderabad. In 1956, he was picked to play for Hyderabad Schools by the selectors who were impressed by his fielding. He scored against 82 against Kerala and won the best fielder's prize. A few years later when State Bank of Hyderabad formed a cricket team, he was given a job there. He started off as a wicket keeper before becoming a bowler. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... State Bank of Hyderabad is an associate bank of State Bank of India and one of the nationalised banks in India. ... A wicket keeper in characteristic position, ready to face a delivery. ...


Abid made the Hyderabad junior side in 1958-59 and the state Ranji Trophy team in the next year.He hardly bowled in the first few years and did not score his first Ranji hundred till 1967. He was unexpectedly picked for the team to tour Australia and New Zealand that year. The Ranji Trophy is the domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between state and city sides, equivalent to county cricket in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia, and also denotes the trophy that is awarded to the winner. ...


He made the team for the first Test against Australia possibly in the place of the captain M. A. K. Pataudi who dropped out due of an injury. Abid scored 33 in both innings and took 6 wickets for 55, the best by Indian on debut till that point of time. Sent in to open the batting in the third Test he hit 47, his first ten scoring strokes being 4,3,2,4,4,3,3,4,4,4. This was followed by innings of 81 and 78 in the final Test. He was given a hero's welcome when he returned to Hyderabad in March 1968. Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi, junior, nicknamed Tiger; (born 5 January 1941, at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India) is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team. ...


He had less success in the New Zealand leg of the tour. In the Christchurch Test, he deliberately threw a ball to protest the suspect bowling action of the New Zealand bowler Gary Bartlett, and was promptly no balled by umpire Fred Goodall. Jade Stadium, formerly known as Lancaster Park is a sports stadium situated in Christchurch. ... This is a general glossary of the terminology used in the sport of cricket. ... In the sport of cricket a no ball is an illegal delivery by the bowler. ...


Abid played significant roles in India's first ever wins in the West Indies and in England in 1971. He was the non-striker when Sunil Gavaskar scored the winning runs against the West Indies in the Port of Spain Test. When West Indies tried to chase a difficult target in the final Test of the series, Abid bowled Rohan Kanhai and Garry Sobers off consecutive balls. A few months later, he hit the winning boundary when India defeated England by four wickets at the Oval. In the Manchester Test of this series, he took the first he took four wickets for 19 runs before lunch on the first day to reduce England to 4 for 41. The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 at Bombay, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Queens Park Oval, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, (West Indies) is a cricket ground that will host a number of matches in the forthcoming 2007 cricket World Cup It is privately owned by the Queens Park Cricket Club, and is currently the largest ground in the Caribbean... West Indies cricket team shirt (ODI, 2004) The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies, is a national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of the Caribbean countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and... Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket. ... Rohan Bholalall Kanhai(born December 26, 1935 in Port Mourant, Berbice, British Guiana) was a West Indian batsman in the late fifties, sixties and early seventies. ... Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers (born July 28, 1936 in Barbados), better known as Garry Sobers, was a West Indies cricket player. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team which nominally represents England and Wales, but is a de facto United Kingdom team. ... The famous gasholders, which are now listed buildings. ... Old Trafford is an area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. ...

Career record First-class List A
Matches 212 12
Runs scored 8,732 169
Batting average 29.30 28.16
100s/50s 13/41 0/1
Top score 173* 70
Balls bowled 25,749 783
Wickets 397 19
Bowling average 28.55 19.31
5 (FC)/4 (List A) wickets in innings 14 0
10 wickets in match 0 N/A
Best Bowling 6/23 3/20
Catches/Stumpings 190/5 5/0
As of 1 January 2006
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He played for nine more Test matches but had little to show for it. He scored 70 runs against New Zealand in the 1975 World Cup in what was to be his last international innings. He continued to play first class cricket for four more years. Abid Ali scored more than 2000 runs and took over hundred wickets for Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy. His highest individual score was 173* scored against Kerala in 1968-69 and the best bowling 6 for 23 against Surrey at the Oval in 1974. First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... A night match at Old Trafford. ... Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ... Cricket ball A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... In the sport of cricket, the term stump has three different meanings: part of the wicket, a manner of dismissing a batsman, and the end of the days play (stumps). Part of the wicket The stumps are three vertical posts supporting the bails to form a wicket at each... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Cricket World Cup in 1975 (aka Prudential Cup, 1975) was the first edition of the tournament. ... The Ranji Trophy is the domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between state and city sides, equivalent to county cricket in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia, and also denotes the trophy that is awarded to the winner. ... Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at The Oval in London. ... The famous gasholders, which are now listed buildings. ...


References

  • Sujit Mukherjee, Matched winners, Orient Longman (1996), p 76-90
  • Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Who's Who of Test Cricketers

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