Uzair Mahomed is a South African born English

English people

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 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. Mahomed is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break

Off break

Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....

. He was born in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, Transvaal Province

Transvaal Province

Transvaal Province was a province of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, and of its successor, the Republic of South Africa, from 1961 until the end of apartheid in 1994 when a new constitution subdivided it.-History:...

 and educated in England

England

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 at Bradford Grammar School

Bradford Grammar School

Bradford Grammar School is a co-educational, independent school in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Headmaster, Stephen Davidson is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The school was founded in 1548 and granted its Charter by King Charles II in 1662...

 and Woodhouse Grove School

Woodhouse Grove School

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Mahomed played a single Minor Counties Championship match for Northumberland

Northumberland County Cricket Club

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 against Staffordshire

Staffordshire County Cricket Club

Staffordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Staffordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in 2005, the same season in which he joined Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

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. He played mostly for the Durham Second XI, before making a single List A appearance for Durham against Bangladesh A

Bangladesh A cricket team

The Bangladesh A cricket team is a cricket team representing Bangladesh, and is the "second tier" of international Bangladeshi cricket below the full Bangladeshi cricket team. The team played its first game, against the full Pakistan side, in 2001/02...

. He scored 3 runs in this match, before being dismissed by Sajidul Islam

Sajidul Islam

Sajidul Islam is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He was born on 18 January 1988 and is a right-handed batsman and left arm medium fast bowler. He played for Bangladesh Under-17s in 2003/04 and represented the Bangladesh Cricket Board Academy in 2006/07...

. Released by Durham at the end of the 2008 season

2008 English cricket season

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, he played for the Northamptonshire Second XI

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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 in 2009, but this came to nothing.

External links

• Uzair Mahomed at ESPNcricinfo
• Uzair Mahomed at CricketArchive
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