Amjad Khan (cricketer, born 1980)
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| Full name | Amjad Khan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14 October 1980 Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Nickname | Ammy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 642) | 6 March 2009 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only T20I (cap 42) | 15 March 2009 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1999–2000 | Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2010 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 March 2014
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Amjad Khan (born 14 October 1980) is an England Test cricketer. Born and raised in Denmark, of Pakistani descent, he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. To date, he is the only person born in Denmark to play Test cricket.
Khan, at the age of 17, is the youngest person ever to play for Denmark, the country of his birth. In his first full season at Kent, in 2002, he claimed 63 wickets. He failed to regain his form for the next two seasons, taking a combined total of 31 wickets.
In the seasons that followed, Khan performed better, taking 55 wickets in 2005 before recording 34 the season after, despite missing almost half of it through injury. In December 2006, Khan was awarded British citizenship, which made him eligible to be selected for England. It only took one month for the English selectors to recognise him, when they named him as part of a 14-man England 'A' squad to tour Bangladesh. Subsequently, he was named in the 30-man World Cup squad, although he was not selected in the final squad when it is halved to 15.
At the end of February 2007, it was revealed that Khan had been ruled out for the entire 2007 season, after having surgery on his cruciate ligaments. However, following the 2008 season, Khan was named as one of the members of the "Development squad" of fringe players, to be sent to India as back-ups to the main England squad, because he had "impressed with his pace and swing".
He gave away 16 runs in his first and only over during the Twenty20 Cup Semi-final, where Marcus Trescothick smashed four successive boundaries. Khan joined Sussex for the 2011 season replacing Corey Collymore
On 20 March 2014, Sussex announced they had released Khan after his 2013 season was disrupted by injury.
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