Abbas Ali Baig
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| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Legbreak | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Indian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 10 | 235 | ||
| Runs scored | 428 | 12367 | ||
| Batting average | 23.77 | 34.16 | ||
| 100s/50s | 1/2 | 21/64 | ||
| Top score | 112 | 224* | ||
| Balls bowled | 18 | 660 | ||
| Wickets | - | 9 | ||
| Bowling average | - | 48.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | - | ||
| Best bowling | - | 2/26 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 6/- | 154/- | ||
| Source: [1], | ||||
Abbas Ali Baig 
pronunciation (help·info) (born March 19, 1939, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 10 Tests from 1959 to 1966.
He was named one of Indian Cricket 's five Cricketers of the Year for 1959/60.[1]
He holds the record for the most runs scored in a first-class match for Oxford University: playing against Free Foresters at The University Parks in 1959, he scored 221 not out in the first innings and 87 in the second for a total of 308.[2]
His brothers Mazhar Baig and Murtuza Baig both played first-class cricket for Hyderabad.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Indian Cricket Cricketers of the Year". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/Overall/Indian_Cricket_Cricketers_of_the_Year.html. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
- ^ "Most Runs in a Match for Oxford University". CricketArchive. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/OxfordUniversity/Batting_Records/Highest_Match_For.html. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
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