Agha Zahid
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Full name | Agha Zahid | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan | 7 January 1953|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test (cap 69) | 15 February 1975 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 June 2017 |
Agha Zahid (Urdu: آغا زاہد) (born 7 January 1953) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one test against West Indies in 1975. He had a long and distinguished domestic first-class career scoring over 13,000 runs in 227 matches. He played for Devon County Cricket Club and Barton Cricket Club from 1982 to 1986. He also won promotion in first attempt followed by two consecutive first division championship in 1983–84.
After retirement, Zahid has been working as the Chief Curator for Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Throughout his career, he has also coached Pakistan national under-19 cricket team, and Pakistan women's national cricket team. He coached U-15 in Lambord World Cup England in 1996 and also coached Pakistan U-19 against Australia home in 1997. He toured to Bangladesh as Coach Pakistan A to win SAARC Championship in 1997. Later on toured England with Pakistan A team. He had also officiated as a domestic match referee from 1995–2000. He worked as chairman of Junior selection committee 1999–2000.
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- Unreferenced BLPs from January 2019
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Pakistani cricketers
- Pakistan Test cricketers
- Habib Bank Limited cricketers
- Devon cricketers
- Cricketers from Lahore
- Lahore Blues cricketers
- Lahore A cricketers
- Pakistan Universities cricketers
- Punjab University cricketers
- Punjab A cricketers
- Punjab (Pakistan) cricketers
- Pakistani cricket biography, 20th-century birth stubs