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Full name | Shakoor Ahmed Qureshi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kampala, Uganda | 15 September 1928||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicketkeeper-batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1947-48 to 1951-52 | Punjab University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1951-52 to 1957-58 | Punjab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1958-59 | Multan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1959-60 to 1967-68 | Lahore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricket Archive,17 December 2014 |
Shakoor Ahmed Qureshi (born 15 September 1928) was a Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1948 to 1968. He toured England in 1954 with the Pakistan team but did not play Test cricket.
A batsman who often opened,and also usually kept wicket,Shakoor Ahmed made his first-class debut in 1947-48 in the second first-class match to be played in the newly independent Pakistan,keeping wicket for Punjab University in the first of what became a regular fixture against the Punjab Governor's XI. He captained Punjab University in these matches in 1950-51 and 1951-52. He also played for Pakistan Universities in a two-day match against the touring MCC in 1951-52,scoring 104 not out in the second innings.
In his first match in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy,the semi-final of the inaugural 1953-54 competition,he scored his first century,102 for Punjab against Railways. [1] He was chosen as the reserve wicket-keeper for the 1954 tour of England, [2] but scored only 154 runs at an average of 14.00 in nine first-class matches. The wicketkeeper-batsman Imtiaz Ahmed played all four Tests. [3] In the 1954-55 season Shakoor Ahmed scored two centuries,including 116 not out in 38 overs against North-West Frontier Province. [4]
Ahmed also played cricket in his native Uganda and Kenya. In 1956-57 when a Kenya Asians team toured South Africa to play against non-white teams,he scored centuries in two of the three matches against the South African Non-Europeans XI. [5] When Punjab won the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the first time a few months later he scored 73 and 24 in the final. [6] He was the only player to score a century in the final in 1959-60 when Karachi beat his team,Lahore. [7]
Ahmed made his highest score in 1964-65 when he made 280 in nine and a half hours for Lahore Greens against Railways. [8] He captained the team in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final later that season;in the second innings,needing 369 to win,after Lahore Greens were 45 for 4 Ahmed made 150 not out,of an eventual total of 263. [9]
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