Niaz Ahmed
Niaz Ahmed in 1967
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1964–65 | Dacca | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965–66 to 1969–70, 1971–72 to 1973–74 | Public Works Department | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1966–67 to 1968–69 | East Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970–71 | Pakistan Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Niaz Ahmed Siddiqi (11 November 1945, Benares, India – 12 April 2000, Karachi, Sindh) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in two Tests in 1967 and 1969. He was the only East Pakistani to play Test cricket for Pakistan.
Ahmed was born in Benares, and his family moved to Dacca in East Pakistan after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. A fast-medium bowler and tailend batsman, he made his first-class debut for Dacca in March 1966 against Karachi Whites in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, taking three catches and three wickets in the first innings.
He joined the Pakistan Public Works Department, where he worked as an engineer, and played for the Public Works Department cricket team from May 1966. When the touring MCC Under-25 team in 1966–67 played three matches against a Pakistan Under-25 team, he played in the second match, in Dacca, taking one wicket.
After five first-class matches in which he had bowled only 84 overs and taken seven wickets, Ahmed was selected to tour England with the Pakistan team in 1967. Owing to injuries among his team-mates he played 11 of the 17 first-class matches and bowled more overs than any of the other pace bowlers, taking 25 wickets at 34.52. In Wisden, Qamaruddin Butt referred to him as "an acquisition".
In his first match on tour he took 5 for 86 (the only time in his career when he took more than three wickets in an innings) against Kent. In the match against Minor Counties he came to the wicket in the second innings with the score at 94 for 9 and the Pakistanis leading by only 72. Although his previous best score was only 15, he hit 69, "driving fearlessly and snicking luckily", added 124 for the last wicket with Salahuddin, and then took two early wickets to help the Pakistanis to a narrow victory.
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