Personal information | |
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Full name | Imran Haniff Jan |
Born | Mafeking, Trinidad and Tobago | 11 February 1979
Batting | Left-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm off spin |
Role | All-rounder |
Relations | Asif Jan (twin brother) |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
2000–2005 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Source:CricketArchive,27 December 2015 |
Imran Haniff Jan (born 11 February 1979) is a former Trinidadian cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago in West Indian domestic cricket. He was an all-rounder who bowled right-arm off spin and batted left-handed.
Jan and his twin brother,Asif,were born in the village of Mafeking,in Trinidad's Mayaro district. [1] [2] He made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in January 2000,playing against Guyana in the 1999–00 Busta Cup. [3] Jan had his breakout season during the 2001–02 Busta Cup,scoring 528 runs from seven matches to finish as his team's leading run-scorer (and fourth in the competition). [4] Opening the batting with Andy Jackson against West Indies B,he scored what was to be his only first-class century,110 runs from 199 balls. [5] Jan scored 563 runs from eight matches in the 2002–03 Busta Cup,the seventh-most in the competition and behind only Daren Ganga for Trinidad and Tobago. [6] As a bowler,his best performance came in the 2004–05 Regional One-Day Competition,where he took 13 wickets from seven matches to finish as the competition's leading wicket-taker. [7]
On 21 August 2021,he was appointed as the head coach of Trinbago Knight Riders for the 2021 Caribbean Premier League,as Brendon McCullum was unavailable for the season. [8]