Zaheer Abbas
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak (OB) | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 78 | 62 |
| Runs scored | 5062 | 2572 |
| Batting average | 44.79 | 47.62 |
| 100s/50s | 12/20 | 7/13 |
| Top score | 274 | 123 |
| Overs bowled | 61.4 | 46.4 |
| Wickets | 3 | 7 |
| Bowling average | 44.00 | 31.85 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | N/A |
| Best bowling | 2/21 | 2/26 |
| Catches/stumpings | 34/0 | 16/0 |
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As of November 6, 2005 |
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Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani (Urdu: سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی) (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 scored 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. Sunil Gavaskar, India's Test Opener while commentating has recalled of Abbas and said about his knack of playing big innings that the team members of the opposing teams often said "Zaheer Ab-bas karo" meaning "Zaheer stop it now" in the local dialect of hindi.
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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| Pakistani batsmen with a Test batting average above 40 |  |
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| Javed Miandad | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Mohammad Yousuf | Saeed Anwar | Zaheer Abbas | |
| Shoaib Mohammad | Hanif Mohammad | Salim Malik | Taufeeq Umar | Saeed Ahmed | Younis Khan | |
| Pakistani batsmen with ODI batting average above 40 | |
|---|---|
| Zaheer Abbas | Mohammad Yousuf | Javed Miandad | |
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