Naveed Nawaz

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Naveed Nawaz
Sri Lanka
Personal information
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling style	Legbreak
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	1	3
Runs scored	99	31
Batting average	99.00	15.50
100s/50s	-/1	-/-
Top score	78*	15*
Balls bowled	-	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	-/-	-/-
As of [[9 February]], 2006 Source: [1]

Mohamed Naveed Nawaz (born September 20, 1973 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a legbreak bowler.

Nawaz has played only one Test, against Bangladesh, but this belies the form of a very consistent performer which started in 1992. He had played for his club side for several years before an international appearance had been forthcoming, his first and only international match taking place in July 2002, but he has since been a consistent performer for his club sides, and in 2004 Nawaz ventured into Twenty-20 cricket.

Naveed Nawaz was known as one of the most technically correct batsmen in Sri Lanka during his time although first team international opporunities were elusive and few and far between he was a champion performer for Sri Lanka 'A and led Sri Lanka A in several tours. He was one of the few lost generation of talented cricketers who were not nurtured proportionate to his talents during that time. For his long term club sides Bloomfield and later NCC, he plied his trade for many years as a regular number 3 batsman playing alongside Sri Lankan big names like Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda De Silva, Hashan Tillekaratne and Kumar Sangakkara to name a few. His first class average was pushing 40 and even though it was well known that his style of play is very well suited for test cricket he never got an opportunity to showcase this until 2002 almost 5 years after his first international ODI appearance and many years after his first ever international tour with Arjuna Rantunga's side to the Caribbean as a benchwarmer. He was given a chance albeit reluctantly against a visiting Bangladesh side when Sri Lanka rested some key players. Surprisingly he was not given the chance to complete a century in the second inning of this match when the skipper declared their inning with a lead of 473 with 2.5 days left to go (a strange decision) only to bundle out Bangladesh for 184 early the next day as expected. Despite this he came out of that one test match with a test average of 99 which remains his average to this day as he was once again shelved.

Naveed Nawaz retired from International and domestic cricket in 2005 and ventured into the field of coaching first-class cricket in Sri Lanka. He was player-cum-coach of Nondescript cricket club, head coach of Moors Sports club and his latest contract is as the head coach with one of Sri Lanka's most prominent of cricket clubs the Sinhalese Sports Club. He has all the makings of a first class coach.