Amjad Khan (cricketer)

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Personal information
Amjad Khan
England
Full name	Amjad Khan
Born	14 October 1980 (1980-10-14) (age 27)
	Copenhagen, Denmark
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Role	Bowler
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2001 – present	Kent (squad no. 10)
1999 – 2000	Denmark
Career statistics
	FC	LA	T20
Matches	57	51	17
Runs scored	824	265	30
Batting average	19.61	12.04	6.00
100s/50s	0/3	0/1	0/0
Top score	78	65*	15

Balls bowled	9338	2107	313
Wickets	190	56	22
Bowling average	32.58	32.46	21.18
5 wickets in innings	6	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	n/a
Best bowling	6/52	4/26	3/11
Catches/stumpings	9/–	13/–	1/–
As of 30 May 2008 Source: Cricinfo

Amjad Khan (born October 14, 1980 in Copenhagen) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He plays for Kent.

At the age of 17, he became the youngest person ever to ever play for Denmark, the country of his birth. In his first full season at Kent, in 2002, he claimed 63 wickets. He failed to regain his form for the next two seasons, taking a combined total of 31 wickets.

In the seasons that followed, Khan performed better, taking 55 wickets in 2005 before recording 34 the season after, despite missing almost half of it through injury. In December 2006, Khan was awarded British citizenship, which made him eligible to be selected for England. It only took one month for the English selectors to recognise him, when they named him as part of a 14-man England 'A' squad to tour Bangladesh. Subsequently, he was named in the 30-man World Cup squad, although he was not selected in the final squad when it is halved to 15.

At the end of February 2007, it was revealed that Khan had been ruled out for the entire 2007 season, after having surgery on his cruciate ligaments.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Cricinfo - Amjad Khan out for nine months

[edit] External links

Amjad Khan at Cricinfo

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