| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Wasim Gulzar Khan | |||
| Born | 26 February 1971 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
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| Batting style | Left-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Leg break | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2002 | Warwickshire Cricket Board | |||
| 2001 | Derbyshire | |||
| 1998–2000 | Sussex | |||
| 1992–1997 | Warwickshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | List A | ||
| Matches | 58 | 30 | ||
| Runs scored | 2,835 | 303 | ||
| Batting average | 30.15 | 12.12 | ||
| 100s/50s | 5/17 | –/– | ||
| Top score | 181 | 33 | ||
| Balls bowled | 132 | 114 | ||
| Wickets | – | 2 | ||
| Bowling average | – | 50.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | – | – | ||
| 10 wickets in match | – | – | ||
| Best bowling | – | 1/7 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 36/– | 8/– | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 10 October 2011 | ||||
Wasim Gulzar Khan (born 26 February 26 1971) is a former English cricketer, he was also one of the first British born-Pakistani's to play county cricket in England. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm leg-break bowler. He was born in Birmingham, however his family originally hailed from Kashmir.
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In his youth Khan attended Somerville Road Junior School and then went Oldknow Road secondary school, where he was discovered by Pete Bolland, who was a P.E teacher at the school and who got him a trial with Warwickshire. He left school with 2 O-levels one in English Literature and the other in History. He then went to Josiah Mason College where he re-sat his O-levels and studied English, History and Economic at A-level, but he only managed to pass his English A-level. His first car was a VW Golf. Also during his childhood he became good friends with Parvaz Mirza, with whom he shared his earliest experiences of cricket, carving cricket bats out of broken pieces of wood and sneaking into Edgbaston during international games.
In his career he has played for Derbyshire, Sussex, Smethwick, the Australian side Western Suburbs and Warwickshire, and holds a top score (for Warwickshire) of 181 against Hampshire, achieved in 1995 in Southampton. He became a professional on the 21st of August 1990 when he signed for Warwickshire and however he didn't make his senior debut for the first team until 1995. it was in 1995, whilst preparing for a test match that he was informed that his boy-hood friend Parvaz Mirza had died of a heart attack, which Khan says was a major blow to him, causing him to lose focus for a while. This led to him being dropped from the Warwickshire first team for the start of the new season, however he soon was recalled up to the first team after some high scores for the reserves.[1]
He is a practising Muslim and is currently working for the Chance to Shine charity campaign. His biography, Brim Full of Passion: Wasim Khan - from the ghetto to pro cricket and beyond was released in May 2006.