Ahad Khan
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| Full name | Abdul Ahad Khan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
25 September 1937 Lahore |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1962-63 to 1980-81 | Pakistan Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 26 February 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abdul Ahad Khan (born 25 September 1937 in Lahore, India (now in Pakistan)) is a former cricketer. A leg-spin bowler for the Pakistan Railways cricket team, he achieved some remarkable figures in domestic first-class cricket.
Ahad Khan made his first-class debut in December 1962. In his third match, playing for Railways against Quetta in a quarter-final of the 1962-63 Ayub Trophy, he took 5 for 29 and 4 for 32 in an innings victory.
He began the 1964-65 season by taking 5 for 122 and 3 for 35 in a friendly match for Railways against a strong Pakistan XI. In his next match, in the Ayub Trophy against Dera Ismail Khan, after not bowling in the first innings he opened the bowling in the second innings and took 9 for 7 in 6.3 overs; the other batsman was run out. A few days later he took his best match figures of 11 for 70 (8 for 42 and 3 for 28) against Lahore Education Board. A few days after that, in a quarter-final of the Ayub Trophy against Public Works Department, he took 6 for 72 and 2 for 57. He finished the season with 42 wickets at an average of 15.88.
In 1965-66 he took 6 for 33 against Peshawar, but played irregularly after that until the 1969-70 season, when he took 32 wickets at an average of only 8.18. He took 4 for 4 and 2 for 9 against Peshawar in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, and 3 for 9 and 6 for 17 against National Bank in the Ayub Trophy.
Khan played a major part in Railways' success in 1972-73, when they won the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, and in 1973-74, when they won both the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy and the Patron's Trophy. In the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy in 1972-73 he took 6 for 27 and 3 for 18 against North-West Frontier Province, then in the final against Sind he took 7 for 41 and 2 for 46 in an innings victory.
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