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Born | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 26 October 1976||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–2007 | United Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 17 September 2004 UAE v Malaysia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 6 July 2007 UAE v Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 29 February 2004 UAE v Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last List A | 11 July 2005 UAE v Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CricketArchive, 5 September 2008 |
Ahmed Nadeem (born 26 October 1976) is a United Arab Emirati cricketer. [1] A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, [2] he has played for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team since 1997, [3] including seven first-class [4] and eight List A matches. [5] He has represented his country in three ICC Trophy tournaments [6] and three ACC Trophy tournaments. [7]
Born in Abu Dhabi in 1976, [2] Ahmed Nadeem first played for the UAE at the 1997 ICC Trophy [3] in Kuala Lumpur, his first match being against West Africa. [6] It would be three years before he next played for them – the 2000 ACC Trophy in the UAE. He also played in that tournament in 2002 and 2004. [7]
In 2001, he played in the 2001 ICC Trophy in Ontario [6] and in the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, a tournament he also played in the following year. In 2003, he played for an Emirates Cricket Board team in four matches against Pakistan A, [7] and made his first-class and List A debut in 2004. His first-class debut was against Malaysia in the Intercontinental Cup [4] and his List A debut was against Canada in the ICC 6 Nations Challenge. [5]
He played for the UAE in the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland, [5] also playing three matches against England A, [7] matches in the 2005 Intercontinental Cup against Hong Kong and Nepal [4] and an ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament match against Hong Kong. [7]
After being absent from the team in 2006, he played for them in 2007, playing four Intercontinental Cup matches, including two against Scotland. [4] He also played an ACC Premier League match against Malaysia and against a Scotland XI and twice against a Canadian Invitation XI, which was his last appearance for his country to date. [7]
In his seven first-class matches, Ahmed Nadeem has scored 143 runs at an average of 14.30 with a top score of 34 [2] for the UAE [3] against Hong Kong. [8] He has taken 17 wickets at an average of 23.52 with best innings bowling figures of 5/84 [2] for the UAE [3] against Scotland. [9] In List A cricket he has scored 71 runs at an average of 14.20 with a top score of 24 [2] for the UAE [3] against the USA [10] and taken twelve wickets at an average of 22.33 with best innings bowling figures of 5/32 [2] also for the UAE, [3] against the USA. [11]