Syed Abid Ali
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Born | Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India | 9 September 1941|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 116) | 23 December 1967 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 15 December 1974 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 1) | 13 July 1974 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 14 June 1975 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1959/60–1978/79 | Hyderabad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 30 September 2008 |
Syed Abid Ali
Early life
Abid Ali attended
Playing career
Abid made it to the Hyderabad junior side in 1958–59 and the state Ranji Trophy team in the next year. He hardly bowled in the first few years and did not score his first Ranji hundred till 1967. He was unexpectedly picked for the Indian team that toured Australia and New Zealand that year.
He made it to the team for the first Test against
Abid was the non-striker when
In the
He played nine more Test matches, and scored 70 runs against New Zealand in the
Coaching career
Abid coached the junior team of Hyderabad for a few years, before moving to California in 1980. He coached Maldives in late 1990s and the UAE between 2002 and 2005. Before coaching the UAE, he trained the Andhra team that won the South Zone league in Ranji Trophy in 2001–02. Abid currently resides in California, where he now coaches promising youngsters at the Stanford Cricket Academy.[4]
Personal life
Obituaries for Abid Ali appeared in the media in the early 1990s when he had in fact survived a heart bypass surgery.[4] His death was mistakenly announced on the air by Indian former cricketer Farokh Engineer.[5]
He has two children, a daughter and a son. He resides in the US.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Siddiqui, Ahmed Mohiuddin (13 December 2015). "All Saints' High School – 160 Glorious Years of Academic Excellence!". The Moroccan Times. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ "Syed Abid Ali, Indian Crickter". veethi.com.
- ^ "1st Test: Australia v India at Adelaide, Dec 23-28, 1967". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- ^ a b c V. V. Subrahmanyam, Abid needs help, Sportstar, 4 March 2006 [1]
- ^ Natarajan, H. "Syed Abid Ali". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Gupta, Abhijit Sen (9 September 2021). "Lion-hearted all-rounder Syed Abid Ali turns 80". The Siasat Daily.
Bibliography
- Sujit Mukherjee, Matched winners, Orient Longman (1996), p 76-90
- Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Who's Who of Test Cricketers