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Full name | Naeem Akhtar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan | 2 December 1967|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002 | Derbyshire Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999 | Cornwall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997/98-2002/03 | Khan Research Laboratories | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995/96 | Rawalpindi B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994/95-1995/96 | Rawalpindi A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990/91-2003/04 | Rawalpindi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,17 October 2010 |
Naeem Akhtar (born 2 December 1967) is a former Pakistani cricketer. Akhtar was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium.
Akhtar made his first-class debut for Rawalpindi against Peshawar in the 1990/91 season. Akhtar represented the main Rawalpindi team in first-class cricket from 1990/91 to 2003/04 in 57 first-class matches,as well as Rawalpindi A and Rawalpindi A. He also represented Khan Research Laboratories in 32 first-class matches. His final first-class match came in the 2003/04 season for Rawalpindi against Quetta. [1] Throughout his first-class career,Akhtar was noted as a consistent all-rounder. With the bat he scored 3,013 runs at a batting average of 21.99,with 10 half centuries and 2 centuries,one of which included his career first-class high score of 157* against Allied Bank Limited in the 1998/99 season. [2] With the ball,he took 322 wickets at an impressive bowling average of 21.46,with 17 five wicket hauls and 2 ten wicket hauls,one of which came when he took 10 wickets in a single innings against Peshawar in 1995/96. [3]
Akhtar also made his debut in List A cricket for Rawalpindi in the 1990/91 season against Peshawar. Akhtar represented the main Rawalpindi team in List A cricket 50 times from the 1990/91 to 2000/01 season. In addition,he also represented Rawalpindi A in 11 matches and Khan Research Laboratories in 35 matches from the 1997/98 to 2001/02 season. During the 1999 English cricket season,Akhtar played a single List A match for Cornwall against Cumberland in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. [4] He also played a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against the Somerset Cricket Board. [5] In 2002,he played a single List A match for the Derbyshire Cricket Board against the Middlesex Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham &Gloucester Trophy,which was held in 2002; [6] This was his final List A match. In his total of 99 List A matches,he scored 1,430 runs at an average of 21.34,with a 6 half centuries and a high score of 81. With the ball he took 123 wickets at an average of 23.83,with a single five wicket haul which gave him best figures of 5/20.
Despite a notable career in domestic cricket,Akhtar never represented the Pakistan national cricket team,although he did make a single List A appearance for Pakistan A in December 1995 against England A. [7]
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