Amjad Ali Chaudhry is a United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

 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. A left-handed batsman, right-arm medium pace

Fast bowling

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

 bowler and wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...

, he made his One Day International (ODI) debut for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team in 2008. He previously played first-class cricket

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...

 for Lahore Blues

Lahore cricket teams

Lahore Lions compete in the Pakistani first-class cricket tournament's the RBS Twenty-20 Cup and Quaid-i-Azam Trophy. Due to the strength of cricket in the state of Punjab they have fielded more than one Lahore team in the annual tournaments....

 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...

, and has also played first-class cricket for the UAE in the ICC Intercontinental Cup

ICC Intercontinental Cup

The ICC Intercontinental Cup is a cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council as part of its cricket development programme...

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Biography

Born in Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

 in 1979, first played for the Lahore Blues in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 2002. He played twice that season, and once more in 2003, ending his first-class career in Pakistan, though he did play in a minor tournament for Lahore East Zone Blues later in 2003.

He first played for the UAE in an 2007–08 ICC Intercontinental Cup

2007-08 ICC Intercontinental Cup

The 2007-08 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the fourth edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup tournament, an international first class cricket tournament between nations who have not been awarded Test status by the International Cricket Council. The first fixtures were played in June 2007, and the...

 match against Namibia

Namibia national cricket team

The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992 and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007. They took part in the 2003...

 in January 2008, and has gone on to play three more matches in that tournament. He played two ODIs for his adopted country in the 2008 Asia Cup

2008 Asia Cup

Cricket's 2008 Asia Cup took place in Pakistan in June 2008. The six teams which took part in the tournament were Bangladesh, India, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UAE. This was the first Asia Cup hosted by Pakistan; previously political tensions between India and Pakistan did not permit...

and most recently represented them in the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite tournament.