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Full name | Maneer Mohammed Mirza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Birmingham, England | 1 April 1978|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1997 | Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,9 April 2021 |
Maneer Mohammed Mirza (born 1 April 1978) is an English first-class cricketer:a right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman who played for Worcestershire. He was born to Pakistani parents in Birmingham on 1 April 1978 and is the younger brother of another former Worcestershire player,Parvaz Mirza,who died aged 24 in 1995. [1] [2]
In the 1996 season,Mirza played five matches for Worcestershire's second XI,taking 15 wickets at an average of 35.26. [3] The following season,Mirza made his first-class debut in Worcestershire's drawn game against Pakistan A at New Road in July 1997. He took 3–136 in his only innings,and two weeks later made his County Championship debut against Kent,taking three wickets in the match. [4] Derek Hodgson of The Times described him as having "a fine delivery action in an impressively sharp spell" and "an interesting,possibly exciting proposition." [2] Having reached the first team he remained there for the rest of the season,playing a total of six first-class games and taking 19 wickets at 32.63;he also appeared in four List A games,but took just one wicket in total.
In July 1998,after two games in the second XI championship,Mirza suffered a stress fracture of the back and was unable to play again that season. [5] He returned for 1999 and 2000,but never managed to force his way back into the First XI,and eventually left Worcestershire in September 2000. [6] He appeared once each for Surrey's and Leicestershire's second teams in 2002,but has never again played first-team county cricket.
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