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Moeen Ali 
Personal information Full name Moeen Munir Ali Born 18 June 1987
Birmingham, West Midlands, EnglandNickname Moe Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Batting style Left-handed Bowling style Right arm off break Role Batsman Relations Kadeer Ali (brother)
Kabir Ali (cousin)Domestic team information Years Team 2005–06 Warwickshire 2007– Worcestershire (squad no. 8) First-class debut 21 May 2005 Warwickshire v Cambridge UCCE List A debut 14 May 2006 Warwickshire v Derbyshire Career statistics Competition FC LA T20 Matches 57 69 42 Runs scored 3155 1745 815 Batting average 34.67 27.69 22.02 100s/50s 5/21 4/8 0/4 Top score 153 136 72 Balls bowled 3085 1140 397 Wickets 33 22 22 Bowling average 62.06 48.22 21.09 5 wickets in innings 1 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a Best bowling 5/36 3/32 3/19 Catches/stumpings 28/– 20/– 13/– Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 June 2011 Moeen Munir Ali (born June 18, 1987) is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and off-spin bowler who played county cricket for Warwickshire before moving to Worcestershire after the 2006 season. He won Warwickshire's NBC Denis Compton Award in both 2004 and 2005.
Ali signed for Warwickshire aged just 15, hitting a half-century for the county's Second XI a few days before his 16th birthday.[1] After more games at this level in 2004, and a first outing for England Under-19s against their Bangladeshi equivalents he spent the succeeding winter playing for the Under-19s on their tour of India.
2005 saw Ali make his first-class debut, against Cambridge University in May. He impressed with the bat, making 57 not out in his only innings, and sent down two overs for 15 runs. Playing that summer against Sri Lankan Under-19s, he starred in the final "Test" by making 52 not out and 100 not out (the latter innings from 56 balls) and claiming seven wickets. He was then selected for the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, which was in fact held in Sri Lanka, being immediately promoted to captain by coach Andy Pick. He made three half-centuries in the tournament, and took seven wickets.
Ali got a few more opportunities for his county in 2006, playing his first List A games. The first of these came against Derbyshire, where he dismissed Steffan Jones to claim his maiden first-team wicket. He also took his first wickets in first-class cricket, and his first three victims were all Test players: Stuart Law, Dominic Cork and Dave Mohammed. With the bat he scored 68 on his County Championship debut against Nottinghamshire, then equalled that score against Durham.
Ali's opportunities were somewhat limited, however, and Alex Loudon took his place in the side. In July 2006, with the expiry of his Warwickshire contract mere months away, Ali brushed off rumours of a move to Worcestershire, saying "I don't know anything about it",[2] but in September it was announced that Ali would indeed be leaving to join that county. The player himself said that he had been "impressed" by Worcestershire and felt it gave him the best prospects of furthering his career.[3]
He made his debut for Worcestershire in their ten-wicket win over Loughborough UCCE on 25 April 2007, but had a rather poor game, returning 0-92 off 16 overs and being dismissed for 12 in his only innings.
Ali's highest first-class score of 153, scored against Yorkshire at Headingley, featured a partnership of 316 with Vikram Solanki (who scored 206 not out)[4].
His cousins, Kabir Ali and Kadeer Ali, also play first-class cricket (for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire respectively), while his brother Omar has played in the Minor Counties Championship for Herefordshire.
Career Best Performances
as of 22 June 2011
Batting Bowling Score Fixture Venue Season Score Fixture Venue Season FC 153 Worcestershire v Yorkshire Headingley 2009 5-36 Worcestershire v Middlesex Lord's 2010 LA 136 Worcestershire v Sri Lankans Worcester 2011 3-32 Worcestershire v Yorkshire Worcester 2009 T20 72 Worcestershire v Lancashire Worcester 2010 3-19 Worcestershire v Leicestershire Leicester 2010 Notes
- ^ "Warwickshire Second XI v Nottinghamshire Second XI". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/77/77111.html. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
- ^ Thompson, Jenny (July 24, 2006). "Moeen Ali dismisses Worcestershire rumours". Cricinfo. http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/254319.html. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
- ^ "Moeen Ali joins Worcestershire". Cricinfo. 18 September 2006. http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/259860.html. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
- ^ Yorkshire v Worcestershire, 2009
External links
Worcestershire County Cricket Club – current squad 2 Wright · 3 Solanki · 5 Kervezee · 8 Moeen Ali · 9 Richardson · 10 Cox (wk) · 11 Shantry · 14 Andrew · 16 Cameron · 17 Whelan · 18 Russell · 19 Pardoe · 20 Pinner · 21 Imran Arif · 22 Kapil · 23 Leach · 24 Mason · 25 Jones · 26 Manuel · 27 Mitchell (c) · 28 Choudhry · 30 Wheeldon · – B. D'Oliveira · Coaches: Rhodes · B. Smith · D. D'Oliveira
Categories:- 1987 births
- Living people
- English Muslims
- English cricketers
- Warwickshire cricketers
- Worcestershire cricketers
- Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands
- English people of Pakistani descent
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