R Jawad "Joe" Hussain was an India

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n cricketer

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. He played only one first-class

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 match, for Tamil Nadu

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 against Andhra in the 1964-65 Ranji Trophy

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. He scored 17 in his only innings (Tamil Nadu won the game by an innings), bowled one over for three runs, and did not hold a catch.

He was the father of former England

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 Test

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 captain Nasser Hussain

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Nasser Hussain OBE is a former Essex and England cricketer.Beginning his career in a strong Essex side in the late 1980s, he was an outstanding fielder and a stylish but inconsistent batsman. In first-class cricket from 1987 to 2004 Hussain scored 20,698 runs in 334 matches at an average of 42.06,...

, and of Mel Hussain

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Mehriyar Hussain, known as Mel Hussain is a former English cricketer who played one first-class match for Worcestershire in 1985; he also had one List A game for the Essex Cricket Board side in the C&G Trophy sixteen years later in 2001 Mehriyar Hussain, known as Mel Hussain (born 17 October 1963...

 who played once for Worcestershire

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Hussain owned a cricket school in Ilford which was started by coach Harold Faragher, where players such as Graham Gooch

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 and former England cricketer John Lever

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 once trained. He died on April 26, 2008 at the age of 68 due to heart and lung failure caused by pneumonia

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