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Full name Syed Abid Ali
Born September 9, 1941, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Current age 66 years 364 days
Major teams India,Hyderabad (India)
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
29
53
3
1018
81
20.36
0
6
0
32
0
ODIs
5
3
0
93
70
31.00
132
70.45
0
1
6
1
0
0
First-class
212
333
35
8732
173*
29.30
13
41
190
5
List A
12
8
2
169
70
28.16
0
1
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
29
49
4164
1980
47
6/55
7/116
42.12
2.85
88.5
2
1
0
ODIs
5
5
336
187
7
2/22
2/22
26.71
3.33
48.0
0
0
0
First-class
212
25749
11336
397
6/23
28.55
2.64
64.8
14
0
List A
12
783
367
19
3/20
3/20
19.31
2.81
41.2
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v India at Adelaide, Dec 23-28, 1967 scorecard
Last Test
India v West Indies at Delhi, Dec 11-15, 1974 scorecard
India v New Zealand at Manchester, Jun 14, 1975 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1959/60 - 1978/79
List A span
1973/74 - 1975
Profile
Abid Ali had the feet of a sprinter, the energy of a marathon runner and the will of a decathlete, but his misfortune was that he was born 20 years too early. His game was made to order for one-day cricket: he bowled brisk medium-pace, fielded outstandingly, and was a busy lower-order batsman who ran between the wickets as if on invisible skates. On his Test debut against Australia at Brisbane in 1967-68, he took a memorable 6 for 55, but Abid Ali was forever destined to play choirboy to India's famous spin quartet. In the same series, he scored 78 and 81 at Sydney, a performance that earned high praise from Jack Fingleton, the noted Australian cricketer-turned-journalist. His career ended abruptly when he was at his peak, after he had top-scored with 70 from No. 7 and taken 2 for 35 against New Zealand in the 1975 World Cup. A bizarre postscript to this premature curtailment came when Abid Ali had the dubious pleasure of reading his own obituary after Farokh Engineer mistakenly announced his death on the air.
H Natarajan
