Syed Abid Ali

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Syed Abid Ali


country = India
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living = true
dayofbirth = 9
monthofbirth = 9
yearofbirth = 1941
placeofbirth = Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
countryofbirth = India
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batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right arm medium-fast
role = All-rounder
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international = true
testdebutdate = 23 December
testdebutyear = 1967
testdebutagainst = Australia
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lasttestdate = 15 December
lasttestyear = 1974
lasttestagainst = West Indies
odidebutdate = 13 July
odidebutyear = 1974
odidebutagainst = England
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lastodidate = 14 June
lastodiyear = 1975
lastodiagainst = New Zealand
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club1 = Hyderabad
year1 = 1959/60–1978/79
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deliveries = balls
columns = 4
column1 = Tests
matches1 = 29
runs1 = 1018
bat avg1 = 20.36
100s/50s1 = 0/6
top score1 = 81
deliveries1 = 4164
wickets1 = 47
bowl avg1 = 42.12
fivefor1 = 1
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 6/55
catches/stumpings1 = 32/–
column2 = ODIs
matches2 = 5
runs2 = 93
bat avg2 = 31.00
100s/50s2 = 0/1
top score2 = 70
deliveries2 = 336
wickets2 = 7
bowl avg2 = 26.71
fivefor2 = 0
tenfor2 = n/a
best bowling2 = 2/22
catches/stumpings2 = 0/–
column3 = FC
matches3 = 212
runs3 = 8732
bat avg3 = 29.30
100s/50s3 = 13/41
top score3 = 173*
deliveries3 = 25619
wickets3 = 397
bowl avg3 = 28.55
fivefor3 = 14
tenfor3 = 0
best bowling3 = 6/23
catches/stumpings3 = 190/5
column4 = List A
matches4 = 12
runs4 = 169
bat avg4 = 28.16
100s/50s4 = 0/1
top score4 = 70
deliveries4 = 783
wickets4 = 19
bowl avg4 = 19.31
fivefor4 = 0
tenfor4 = n/a
best bowling4 = 3/20
catches/stumpings4 = 5/–

date = 30 September
year = 2008
source = http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1304/1304.html CricketArchive

Syed Abid Ali audio|Abid Ali.ogg|pronunciation (born September 9, 1941 in Hyderabad ) is an all-rounder Indian cricketer. He was a watchful lower order batsman, a medium pace bowler and a brilliant fielder.

Abid Ali attended 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 impressed by his fielding. He scored 82 against Kerala and won the best fielder's prize. A few years later when State Bank of Hyderabad formed a cricket team, he was given a job there. He started off as a wicket keeper before becoming a bowler.

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 team to tour Australia and New Zealand that year.

He made it to the team for the first Test against Australia possibly in the place of the captain M. A. K. Pataudi who dropped out injured. Abid scored 33 in both innings and took 6 wickets for 55, the best by Indian on debut till then. Sent in to open the batting in the third Test, he hit 47 - his first ten scoring strokes being 4,3,2,4,4,3,3,4,4,4. This was followed by innings of 81 and 78 in the final Test. For which he was given a hero's welcome when he returned to Hyderabad in March 1968.

He had less success in the New Zealand leg of the tour. In the Christchurch Test, he deliberately threw a ball to protest the suspect bowling action of the New Zealand bowler Gary Bartlett; and was promptly no balled by umpire Fred Goodall.

Abid played significant roles in India's first-ever wins in the West Indies and in England in 1971. He was the non-striker when Sunil Gavaskar scored the winning runs against the West Indies in the Port of Spain Test. When West Indies tried to chase a difficult target in the final Test of the series, Abid bowled Rohan Kanhai and Garry Sobers in consecutive balls. A few months later, he hit the winning boundary when India defeated England by four wickets at the Oval. In the Manchester Test of this series, he took the first four wickets for 19 runs before lunch on the first day - to reduce England to 4 for 41.

He played for nine more Test matches, but wasn't that impressive. He scored 70 runs against New Zealand in the 1975 World Cup in what was to be his last international innings. He continued to play first class cricket for four more years. Abid Ali scored more than 2000 runs and took over hundred wickets for Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy. His highest individual score was 173* against Kerala in 1968-69 and his best bowling was 6 for 23 against Surrey at the Oval in 1974.

Abid coached the junior team of Hyderabad for a few years, before moving to California in 1980. He coached Maldives in late 1990s and UAE between 2002 and 2005. Before coaching UAE, he trained the Andhra team that won the South Zone league in Ranji Trophy in 2001-02. He currently continues to reside in California, where he now coaches promising youngsters at the Stanford Cricket Academy.

Obituaries for him appeared in the media in the early 1990s; in fact he had survived a bypass surgery.

His son Faaqir Ali, who was married to the daughter of the Indian cricketer Syed Kirmani, died from a heart attack in April 2008. [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Articles/8/8020.html]

Reference

* Sujit Mukherjee, "Matched winners", Orient Longman (1996), p 76-90
* Christopher Martin-Jenkins, "Who's Who of Test Cricketers"
* V. V. Subrahmanyam, "Abid needs help", Sportstar, March 4, 2006 [http://www.sportstaronnet.com/tss2909/stories/20060304013203500.htm]

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NAME=Abid Ali, Syed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Abid Ali
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH=September 9 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH=Hyderabad, India
DATE OF DEATH=
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