Iqbal Sikander

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Iqbal Sikander
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLegbreak, googly
Career statistics
Competition ODI
Matches4
Runs scored1
Batting average
100s/50s0/0
Top score1*
Balls bowled210
Wickets 3
Bowling average 49.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match0
Best bowling1/30
Catches/stumpings 0/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 1992 Australia and New Zealand
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 3 May 2006

Mohammad Iqbal Sikander (born December 19, 1958, in Karachi, Sindh), is a former Pakistani cricketer who played four One Day Internationals (ODI), all of them in the 1992 Cricket World Cup and was part of the Pakistan squad that won it, but he was never selected again for Pakistan in either Tests or ODIs.

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In January 1991, playing for Karachi Whites against Peshawar in a one-day match, he recorded the extraordinary bowling analysis of 6.2–3–7–7; no other cricketer has ever taken seven wickets in a List A game for the cost of fewer runs. [1]

Iqbal spent a lot of time in English league cricket, this included several seasons playing for Tonge Cricket Club in the Bolton Cricket League where he took a competition record 133 wickets in 1995. [2] In 2001, he took 101 league wickets for Leigh Cricket Club in the Liverpool Competition. [3]

Following his playing career, Iqbal worked as the Asian Cricket Council's development officer. [4] This role included helping to establish cricket in Afghanistan, [5] He had spells as coach of the Afghanistan national cricket team and Oman national cricket team. [6]

Education

He was educated at the St. Patrick's High School, Karachi. [7]

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