Abdur Rehman (cricketer, born 1955)
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Abdur Rehman was a Pakistan
i cricket
er. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Hyderabad
. He was born in Hyderabad
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Having made his debut for the team at the age of 13, in the quarter-final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, it was two more seasons before he appeared again for the team, though in three innings he failed to score a single run for the team.
Following the 1971-72 campaign, in which Hyderabad reached the quarter final before being defeated by the Karachi Blues, Rehman took two seasons out of the game, before returning for the team in the 1975-76 season.
Rehman continued to play for the team until the 1978-79 season.
In sixteen innings, Rehman scored just 29 runs, though he performed better with the ball, taking 34 wickets from 300.3 overs, including two five-wicket innings.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Hyderabad
Hyderabad cricket team
The Hyderabad cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Hyderabad. It is part of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group and has seen scattered success over its many years in the Ranji Trophy circuit. It falls into the South Zone in the Duleep Trophy and is one of two teams from Andhra...
. He was born in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Sindh
is the second largest city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the seventh largest city in the country. The city was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro upon the ruins of a Mauryan fishing village along the bank of the Indus known as Neroon Kot...
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Having made his debut for the team at the age of 13, in the quarter-final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, it was two more seasons before he appeared again for the team, though in three innings he failed to score a single run for the team.
Following the 1971-72 campaign, in which Hyderabad reached the quarter final before being defeated by the Karachi Blues, Rehman took two seasons out of the game, before returning for the team in the 1975-76 season.
Rehman continued to play for the team until the 1978-79 season.
In sixteen innings, Rehman scored just 29 runs, though he performed better with the ball, taking 34 wickets from 300.3 overs, including two five-wicket innings.
External links
- Abdur Rehman at Cricket Archive