Ijaz Ahmed (cricketer)

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	Tests	ODIs
Ijaz Ahmed Pakistan (Pak)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Left-arm medium
Matches	60	250
Runs scored	3315	6564
Batting average	37.67	32.33
100s/50s	12/12	10/37
Top score	211	139*
Balls bowled	180	637
Wickets	2	5
Bowling average	38.50	95.20
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	1/9	2/31
Catches/stumpings	45/-	90/-
As of 4 February 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Ijaz Ahmed (Urdu: اعجاز احمد) (born September 20, 1968 in Sialkot) was a Pakistani cricketer who played 60 Tests and 250 one-day internationals for Pakistan over a period from 1986 to 2001.

Ijaz did not have the highest batting averages of the team, with a Test average of 37 and an ODI average of 32, but he did hit six Test centuries against the world's top-ranked side for much of his career, Australia - which is a record number of centuries by a Pakistani against Australia, shared with Javed Miandad.

However, in Test cricket he had a habit of being dismissed for low scores, as 33 of his 92 innings yielded single-figure scores and 54 of them yielded scores below 20.

He was a regular in the ODI team especially, as his 250 matches is the fifth-highest of all time in Pakistan, behind Wasim Akram, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saleem Malik and Waqar Younis. He appeared in 4 World Cups and was a World Cup winner in 1992. Ijaz was a powerful hitter, especially on the leg side of the pitch.