Hameed Hasan

Hamid Hassan

Personal information
Full name	Hamid Hassan
Born	(1987-06-01) 1 June 1987 (age 29) Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast
International information
National side	Afghanistan
ODI debut (cap 3)	19 April 2009 v Scotland
Last ODI	13 March 2015 v England
ODI shirt no.	66
T20I debut (cap 3)	1 February 2010 v Ireland
Last T20I	23 July 2015 2013 v Papua New Guinea
T20I shirt no.	66
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2011/12	Afghan Cheetahs
2006–2011	MCC
2007–2010	Pakistan Customs
2013	Barisal Burners
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA Matches 30 18 12 47 Runs scored 86 50 58 124 Batting average 7.16 16.66 5.27 7.75 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 17 22 26 22 Balls bowled 1,482 397 2356 2,342 Wickets 54 29 66 82 Bowling average 20.96 15.10 21.27 22.03 5 wickets in innings 1 0 6 2 10 wickets in match n/a n/a 2 n/a Best bowling 5/45 4/22 7/61 5/23 Catches/stumpings 4/– 1/– 3/– 8/–
Source: Cricinfo, 22 February 2016

Hameed Hassan

Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  Afghanistan
Asian Games
	2010 Guangzhou	Team

Hamid Hassan (Pashto: حميد حسن‎) (born 1 June 1987) is a first-class cricketer. Hassan is a 6 feet 5 inches tall right-arm fast bowler who plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team. He has also appeared for the Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC Young Cricketers and Pakistan Customs.

In 2012 Hamid Hassan was bought by Barisal Burners for a reported amount of $40,000 to play in Bangladesh Premier League.

On February 22, 2015 Hassan become the first Afghani bowler to take 50 ODI wickets and also the 7th quickest bowler to take 50 wickets (26 matches).

Hassan grew up in an Afghan refugee family in Peshawar, Pakistan with no tradition of cricket in his family and did not play the game until he left school in 2001. By the age of 22, he had received high praise from the likes of Christian Treloar and Bruno Consalvo.

In 2009, Hassan was recorded as bowling at 90 miles per hour (145 km/h). He picked up four wickets to limit Jersey to 80 in 39.5 overs in the final of the Pepsi ICC WCL Division 5 event. He also picked up 3 for 19 against Italy and 4 for 22 against Fiji in the Pepsi ICC WCL Division 4, finishing the event as the leading wicket-taker with 16 wickets. Onlookers said they had never seen such a breath taking display of pace bowling.