Abid Ali Kazi is a cricket statistician

Cricket statistics

Cricket is a sport that generates a large number of statistics.Statistics are recorded for each player during a match, and aggregated over a career. At the professional level, statistics for Test cricket, one-day internationals, and first-class cricket are recorded separately...

 and historian based in Pakistan

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...

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Abid Ali Kazi's major contribution to cricket is compiling the history of Pakistan cricket and the scorecards of many first-class matches

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 which remained largely undocumented till the 1990s. Kazi's efforts appear as five volumes in the series First class cricket in Pakistan which cover the period 1947-48 to 1974-75.

Kazi is a founder member of the Pakistan Association of Cricket Statisticians and Scorers and is the Pakistan correspondent of Wisden Cricketers Almanack. He also contributed to the 'Pakistan Book of Test Cricket' in 1982.

External links

• News report on award to Abid Ali Kazi