Individual data
Born 9 September 1941 (age 74)
Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India
Batting style Right-gave
Rocking the bowling alley style Right arm medium-quick
Role All-rounder
Global data
National side
India
Test debut (top 116) 23 December 1967 v Australia
Last Test 15 December 1974 v West Indies
ODI debut (top 1) 13 July 1974 v England
Last ODI 14 June 1975 v New Zealand
Residential group data
Years Team
1959/60–1978/79 Hyderabad
Vocation measurements
Competition Tests ODIs FC List A
Matches 29 5 212 12
Runs scored 1018 93 8732 169
Batting average 20.36 31.00 29.30 28.16
100s/50s 0/6 0/1 13/41 0/1
Top score 81 70 173* 70
Balls bowled 4164 336 25619 783
Wickets 47 7 397 19
Knocking down some pins average 42.12 26.71 28.55 19.31
5 wickets in innings 1 0 14 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 6/55 2/22 6/23 3/20
Gets/stumpings 32/– 0/– 190/
Early life
Abid Ali went to the St. George's Grammar School and All Saints High School in Hyderabad. In 1956, he was picked to play for Hyderabad Schools by the selectors, who were inspired by his handling. He scored 82 against Kerala and won the best defender's prize. A couple of years after the fact when State Bank of Hyderabad framed a cricket group, he was given an occupation there. He began off as a wicket attendant before turning into a bowler.
Playing vocation
Abid made it to the Hyderabad junior side in 1958–59 and the state Ranji Trophy group in the following year.He barely rocked the bowling alley in the initial couple of years and did not score his first Ranji hundred till 1967. He was surprisingly picked for the group to visit Australia and New Zealand that year.
He made it to the group for the first Test against Australia conceivably in the spot of the commander M. A. K. Pataudi who dropped out harmed. Abid scored 33 in both innings and took 6 wickets for 55,[1] the best by Indian on introduction as of right now. Sent into open the batting in the third Test, he hit 47. This was trailed by innings of 81 and 78 in the last Test.
Abid was the non-striker when Sunil Gavaskar scored the triumphant keeps running against the West Indies in the Port of Spain Test of 1971. At the point when West Indies attempted to pursue a troublesome focus in the last Test of the arrangement, Abid knocked down some pins Rohan Kanhai and Garry Sobers in successive balls. A couple of months after the fact, he hit the triumphant limit when India vanquished England by four wickets at the Oval.
In the Manchester Test of the same arrangement, he took the initial four wickets for 19 keeps running before lunch on the first day to decrease England to 4 for 41.
He played nine more Test matches, and scored 70 keeps running against New Zealand in the 1975 World Cup. He kept on playing top of the line cricket for four more years. Abid Ali scored more than 2000 runs and assumed control hundred wickets for Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy. His most elevated individual score was 173 not out against Kerala in 1968-69 and his best rocking the bowling alley was 6 for 23 against Surrey at the Oval in 1974.
Honing profession
Abid honed the lesser group of Hyderabad for a couple of years, before moving to California in 1980. He honed Maldives in late 1990s and UAE somewhere around 2002 and 2005. Before instructing UAE, he prepared the Andhra group that won the South Zone class in Ranji Trophy in 2001-02. He right now keeps on living in California, where he now mentors promising youths at the Stanford Cricket Academy.
Individual life
Eulogies for Abid showed up in the media in the mid 1990s; truth be told he had survived heart sidestep surgery.
He had two kids, a girl and a child.
See too
Rundown of India Test cricketers who have taken five wickets on introducti
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