Saleem Elahi (born November 21, 1976, Sahiwal

Sahiwal

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, Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

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) is a former Pakistan

Pakistan

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i cricket

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er who played in 13 Tests

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 and 48 ODIs from 1995 to 2004. To date, he is the only Pakistani cricketer to score a century on his one-day debut, scoring an unbeaten 102.

Despite not having played in a single first-class match, he scored an unbeaten 102 on ODI debut, against Sri Lanka at Gujranwala

Gujranwala

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 in 1995-96. His most successful tour was to Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2002-03 in four matches he scored 3 hundreds.

He averages over 50 in List A cricket and holds the second highest average of all time for players with over 5000 runs, after Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan

Michael Gwyl Bevan is a former Australian left-handed cricket batsman and a slow left arm chinaman bowler. He played 232 ODI matches for Australia, and was a part of the 1999 and 2003 teams that won the World Cup...

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