Zaheer Abbas

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Zaheer Abbas
Pakistan
Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm offbreak
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	78	62
Runs scored	5062	2572
Batting average	44.79	47.62
100s/50s	12/20	7/13
Top score	274	123
Overs	61.4	46.4
Wickets	3	7
Bowling average	44.00	31.85
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best bowling	2/21	2/26
Catches/stumpings	34/-	16/-
As of November 6, 2005 Source: Cricinfo

Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani (Urdu: سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی) (born 24 July 1947) is a former Pakistani cricketer. He is rated as one of the best ever Pakistani batsmen.

Zaheer played his first Test in 1969, and in only his second Test he scored 274 against England, still the fourth highest score ever by a Pakistani. This was the first of four double-centuries Abbas made; only six men have scored more.[1] He also had great success in first-class cricket, and is the only Asian batsman to have scored one hundred first class centuries.[2] Hence he was given the unofficial title of the 'Run Machine.' He also had a long stint playing with Gloucestershire. Zaheer's connection with Gloucestershire began in 1972 when he opted to join the county's cricket team. He would stay at the club for thirteen years.

During that time he scored over a thousand runs in the majority of his thirteen seasons. He also hit over two thousand runs in a single season on two occasions for the club (1976 and 1981. During those thirteen years at Gloucestershire he played 206 First Class games, scoring over 16,000 runs. He averaged 49.79, hitting 49 100s and 76 50s. Sunil Gavaskar, a former Indian Test opener, has said while commentating that the Indian players would often say to Zaheer, "Zaheer Ab-bas karo", which means "Zaheer, stop it now" in Urdu and Hindi, referring to Abbas' free scoring. He remains the second highest on the all-time ICC ODI batting rankings^[1].

Zaheer retired from international cricket in 1985, and has officiated as a match referee in one Test and three ODI matches.

Zaheer is known in Pakistan as the "Asian Bradman", a reference to former Australian great Sir Donald Bradman

Contents 1 Test Centuries 2 One Day International Centuries 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Test Centuries

Zaheer Abbas's Test Centuries
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	274	2	England	Birmingham, England	Edgbaston Cricket Ground	1971
[2]	240	15	England	London, England	The Oval	1974
[3]	101	21	Australia	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval	1976
[4]	176	27	India	Faislabad, Pakistan	Iqbal Stadium	1978
[5]	235*	28	India	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1978
[6]	135	31	New Zealand	Aukland, New Zealand	Eden Park	1979
[7]	125*	46	Sri Lanka	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1982
[8]	126	51	Australia	Faislabad, Pakistan	Iqbal Stadium	1982
[9]	215	53	India	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1982
[10]	186	54	India	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	1982
[11]	168	55	India	Faislabad, Pakistan	Iqbal Stadium	1983
[12]	168*	70	India	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1984

[edit] One Day International Centuries

Zaheer Abbas's One Day International Centuries
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	108	20	Pakistan	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	1981
[2]	123	26	Sri Lanka	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1982
[3]	109	31	Australia	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1982
[4]	118	34	India	Multan, Pakistan	Multan Cricket Stadium	1982
[5]	105	35	India	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1982
[6]	113	36	India	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	1983
[7]	103*	42	New Zealand	Nottingham, England	Trent Bridge	1983

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cricinfo page on Zaheer Abbas

Preceded by Javed Miandad	Pakistan Cricket Captain 1981-1982	Succeeded by Imran Khan
Preceded by Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan Cricket Captain 1984-1985	Succeeded by Imran Khan

v • d • e Pakistan squad - 1975 Cricket World Cup 1 Asif Iqbal (c) • 2 Asif Masood • 3 Imran Khan • 4 Javed Miandad • 5 Majid Khan • 6 Mushtaq Mohammad • 7 Naseer Malik • 8 Pervez Mir • 9 Sadiq Mohammad • 10 Sarfraz Nawaz • 11 Wasim Bari (wk) • 12 Wasim Raja • 13 Zaheer Abbas

v • d • e Pakistan squad - 1979 Cricket World Cup 1 Asif Iqbal (c) • 2 Haroon Rashid • 3 Imran Khan • 4 Javed Miandad • 5 Majid Khan • 6 Mudassar Nazar • 7 Sadiq Mohammad • 8 Sarfraz Nawaz • 9 Sikander Bakht • 10 Wasim Bari (wk) • 11 Wasim Raja • 12 Zaheer Abbas

v • d • e Pakistan squad - 1983 Cricket World Cup 1 Imran Khan (c) • 2 Abdul Qadir • 3 Ijaz Faqih • 4 Javed Miandad • 5 Mansoor Akhtar • 6 Mohsin Khan • 7 Mudassar Nazar • 8 Rashid Khan • 9 Sarfraz Nawaz • 10 Shahid Mahboob • 11 Tahir Naqqash • 12 Wasim Bari (wk) • 13 Wasim Raja • 14 Zaheer Abbas

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