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Sajid Mahmood

Sajid Mahmood
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Personal information
Full name Sajid Iqbal Mahmood
Born (1981-12-21) 21 December 1981 (age 35)
Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Nickname Saj, Makkers
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 633) 11 May 2006 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 5 January 2007 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 182) 4 July 2004 v New Zealand
Last ODI 22 November 2009 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 19
Domestic team information
Years Team
2002–2012 Lancashire (squad no. 19)
2010–11 Western Australia
2012 Somerset (on loan)
2013–2014 Essex
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 8 26 121 153
Runs scored 81 85 2,178 541
Batting average 8.10 7.72 15.78 9.16
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/10 0/0
Top score 34 22* 94 29
Balls bowled 1130 1,197 17,205 6,683
Wickets 20 30 329 210
Bowling average 38.10 38.94 32.82 28.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0 9 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 2 n/a
Best bowling 4/22 4/50 6/30 5/16
Catches/stumpings 0/– 1/– 30/– 23/–
Source: Cricinfo, 30 March 2016

Sajid Iqbal Mahmood (Urdu: ساجد اقبال محمود, Sājid Iqbāl Maḥmūd; born 21 December 1981) is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played international cricket for England and county cricket for Essex.

Sajid Mahmood's grandfather, Lal Khan Janjua, emigrated from Rawalpindi in Pakistan to England with his family in 1968. The family settled in Halliwell, a residential area of Bolton. Sajid Mahmood was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester on 21 December 1981, the son of Shahid Mahmood, and grew up with his family. He has a sister and two brothers and is first cousin to boxer Amir Khan. Khan is five years younger than Mahmood and the two cousins stay close, having grown up living near to each other.

Mahmood began playing club cricket in the Bolton Leagues, and played well enough to be signed by Lancashire in 2002. He made his debut for Lancashire in 2002 whilst on a scholarship with the club.

He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2003; in the same year, he inadvertently broke the hands of Lancashire team-mate Andrew Flintoff and England A team-mate Alex Gidman, an early indicator of his pace. In September 2003, Mahmood was one of England 14 cricketers selected to train with the England Cricket Board's National Academy during the winter.

Despite having taken only six first-class wickets, Mahmood was chosen for England A's tour to India and Malaysia in 2003–04. He made his One Day International debut for England against New Zealand at Bristol in July 2004, but his seven overs proved expensive, conceding 56 runs without a wicket. More recently, he toured India with England in early 2006, playing in the third, sixth and seventh ODIs and taking several wickets.


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