Zaheer Abbas
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Zaheer Abbas Kirmani (born 24 July 1947) is a former Pakistani cricketer. He is rated one of the best batsmen to come from Pakistan.
Abbas played his first Test in 1969, and in only his second Test he played an innings of 274 against England, still the fourth highest score by a Pakistani. This was the first of four double-centuries Abbas made; only six men have made more. He also had great success in first-class cricket, and is the only Asian batsman to have scored one hundred centuries.He also had a long stint playing with
Gloucestershire. Zaheer's connection with Gloucestershire began in 1972 when he opted to join the county's cricket team. Gloucestershire life and cricket must have agreed with him because he decided to stay with the club for thirteen years.
During that time he averaged over a thousand runs in the majority of his thirteen seasons. He also hit over two thousand runs in a single season on two occasions for the club (1976 and 1981. During those thirteen years at Gloucestershire he played 206 First Class games, scoring over 16,000 runs. He averaged 49.79, hitting 49 100s and 76 50s.
Abbas retired from international cricket in 1985, and has officiated as a match referee in one Test and three ODI matches.
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