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Full name | Mohammad Adnan Akram | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Leytonstone, London | 23 June 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Essex Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Cambridge UCCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 12 April 2003 Cambridge UCCE v Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 1 June 2005 Cambridge UCCE v Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 12 September 2002 Essex Cricket Board v Surrey Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 7 May 2003 Essex Cricket Board v Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,17 January 2009 |
Mohammad Adnan Akram (born 17 November 1983) is an English first-class cricketer who played for Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence,the Essex Cricket Board and the British Universities cricket team between 2002 and 2005. [1]
Akram's studies at Anglia Polytechnic University made him eligible to play cricket for the Cambridge UCCE team. His first-class debut,alongside his twin brother Arfan Akram,came against Essex in April 2003. [2] [3] He took two wickets in Essex's first innings but was otherwise unsuccessful. [2] His batting form improved with 38 against Kent,before he scored a "match-winning" 98 from just 89 balls against Northants, [3] putting on a rapid partnership of 139 with Tom Webley,as part of the first victory by a UCCE side over a first-class county. [4] He averaged 40.50 with the bat across the first-class season. [5] Following the end of his university term,he appeared for Essex second XI. [6]
Akram played in two of the three Cambridge UCCE first-class matches in the 2004 season. He scored a maiden hundred,striking 20 fours and a six as he reached 128 in 133 balls against Middlesex in a drawn match. [7] In his next first-class match,the first of the 2005 season,he made 129 not out,including a partnership of 230 with skipper Tom Webley. [8] He finished his time at university having scored 515 first-class runs at an average of 42.91 and a strike rate of 67.85. [9]
For the Essex Board XI in the Cheltenham &Gloucester Trophy,Akram scored 61 in the third round as the Essex Board XI were beaten by Essex. [10]
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