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	'''Amjad Khan''' (born 21 August 1966) is a [[Kashmir]]i-born-[[America]]n former [[cricket]]er. Khan was a right-handed [[batsman (cricket)\|batsman]] who bowled right-arm [[Seam bowling\|medium-fast]] and who could occasionally field as a [[wicket-keeper]]. He was born at [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)\|Jammu and Kashmir]].		'''Amjad Khan''' (born 21 August 1966) is a [[Kashmir]]i-born-[[America]]n former [[cricket]]er. Khan was a right-handed [[batsman (cricket)\|batsman]] who bowled right-arm [[Seam bowling\|medium-fast]] and who could occasionally field as a [[wicket-keeper]]. He was born at [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)\|Jammu and Kashmir]].

	Khan made his [[first-class cricket\|first-class]] debut for [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team\|Jammu and Kashmir]] in the 1988/89 [[Ranji Trophy]] against [[Delhi cricket team\|Delhi]]. He made one further first-class appearance for the state that season, which came against [[Haryana cricket team\|Haryana]].<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/First-Class_Matches.html \|title=First-Class Matches played by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> In his two matches for the state, he scored 42 runs at a [[batting average (cricket)\|batting average]] of 10.50, with a high score of 22.<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/f_Batting_by_Team.html \|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> The following year in 1989, [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team\|Jammu and Kashmir]] did not participate in the [[Ranji Trophy]] due to the political unrest.		Khan made his [[first-class cricket\|first-class]] debut for [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team\|Jammu and Kashmir]] in the 1988/89 [[Ranji Trophy]] against [[Delhi cricket team\|Delhi]]. He made one further first-class appearance for the state that season, which came against [[Haryana cricket team\|Haryana]].<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/First-Class_Matches.html \|title=First-Class Matches played by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> In his two matches for the state, he scored 42 runs at a [[batting average (cricket)\|batting average]] of 10.50, with a high score of 22.<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/f_Batting_by_Team.html \|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> The following year in 1989, [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team\|Jammu and Kashmir]] did not participate in the [[Ranji Trophy]] due to the political unrest.
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	In 1990, he left [[Kashmir]] for the [[United States of America]] to find a safer and a better life. Playing for the New York Eagles, a Caribbean-centred club, he led them to three championship's in the Commonwealth Cricket League, the largest league in America. In 1996, Khan moved to Northern California and continued his run scoring spree on the west coast as well. A prolific run scorer in American domestic Cricket for close to two decades, Khan holds the record high score for a batsman in [[North America]] when he scored 304[[not out\|*]] in a quarter final match for United Cricket Club against Berkeley Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association in 1999, although this match is not a senior match. He is one of only three players to have scored a triple century in any form of [[limited overs cricket]]. Amjad achieved another unique feat on 30 September 2012 when he scored the {{cite web\|url=http://newyorkcricket.com/news/2012/09/everestacs-and-richmond-in-the-final-showdown-of-the-season/ \|title=Fastest century in US cricket history}} <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://newyorkcricket.com/news/2012/09/everestacs-and-richmond-in-the-final-showdown-of-the-season/ \|title=Everest/ACS’ Amjad Khan’s Blitz Crushes Richmond Hill\|publisher=newyorkcricket.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-09-30}}</ref> in the final of the Eastern American Cricket Association's Twenty/20 Blitz. Playing the final at [[Baisley Park]], in [[Richmond Hill, Queens\|Richmond Hill]], [[New York (state)\|New York]], Khan scored his century against Richmond Hill CC and it took him just 56 balls to reach the hundred that included 9 fours and 7 sixes.		In 1990, he left [[Kashmir]] for the [[United States of America]] to find a safer and a better life. Playing for the New York Eagles, a Caribbean-centred club, he led them to three championship's in the Commonwealth Cricket League, the largest league in America. In 1996, Khan moved to Northern California and continued his run scoring spree on the west coast as well. A prolific run scorer in American domestic Cricket for close to two decades, Khan holds the record high score for a batsman in [[North America]] when he scored 304[[not out\|*]] in a quarter final match for United Cricket Club against Berkeley Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association in 1999, although this match is not a senior match. He is one of only three players to have scored a triple century in any form of [[limited overs cricket]]. Amjad achieved another unique feat on 30 September 2012 when he scored the {{cite web\|url=http://newyorkcricket.com/news/2012/09/everestacs-and-richmond-in-the-final-showdown-of-the-season/ \|title=Fastest century in US cricket history}} <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://newyorkcricket.com/news/2012/09/everestacs-and-richmond-in-the-final-showdown-of-the-season/ \|title=Everest/ACS’ Amjad Khan’s Blitz Crushes Richmond Hill\|publisher=newyorkcricket.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-09-30}}</ref> in the final of the Eastern American Cricket Association's Twenty/20 Blitz. Playing the final at [[Baisley Park]], in [[Richmond Hill, Queens\|Richmond Hill]], [[New York (state)\|New York]], Khan scored his century against Richmond Hill CC and it took him just 56 balls to reach the hundred that included 9 fours and 7 sixes.

	He was selected to play for the [[United States national cricket team\|United States]] in the 2000/01 [[Red Stripe Bowl]]. The matches in this competition had [[List A cricket\|List A status]], as such his List A debut came against [[Jamaica national cricket team\|Jamaica]]. He played three further List A matches in the tournament, the last of which came against [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team\|Trinidad and Tobago]].<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/List_A_Matches.html \|title=List A Matches played by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> In his four List A matches for the United States, Khan scored 61 runs at an average of 15.25, with a high score of 36.<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/a_Batting_by_Team.html \|title=ListA Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> He took a single wicket with the ball at a [[bowling average]] of 50 and best figures of 1/45.<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/a_Bowling_by_Team.html \|title=List A Bowling For Each Team by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> His final match for the United States came in a Man of the Match performance in the [[2002 ICC Americas Championship]] against [[Bermuda cricket team\|Bermuda]] that was played in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/Other_matches.html \|title=Other matches played by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04 \|archive-date=23 October 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023185629/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/Other_matches.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		He was selected to play for the [[United States national cricket team\|United States]] in the 2000/01 [[Red Stripe Bowl]]. The matches in this competition had [[List A cricket\|List A status]], as such his List A debut came against [[Jamaica national cricket team\|Jamaica]]. He played three further List A matches in the tournament, the last of which came against [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team\|Trinidad and Tobago]].<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/List_A_Matches.html \|title=List A Matches played by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> In his four List A matches for the United States, Khan scored 61 runs at an average of 15.25, with a high score of 36.<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/a_Batting_by_Team.html \|title=ListA Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> He took a single wicket with the ball at a [[bowling average]] of 50 and best figures of 1/45.<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/a_Bowling_by_Team.html \|title=List A Bowling For Each Team by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> His final match for the United States came in a Man of the Match performance in the [[2002 ICC Americas Championship]] against [[Bermuda cricket team\|Bermuda]] that was played in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web \|url-access=subscription \|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/Other_matches.html \|title=Other matches played by Amjad Khan \|publisher=Cricketarchive.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04 \|archive-date=23 October 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023185629/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/Other_matches.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	Khan never played for the USA again and paid the price for his outspoken and open criticism of the current [[United States of America Cricket Association]] administration, led by Gladstone Dainty. In January 2010, he again criticised the [[United States of America Cricket Association]] and its president Gladstone Dainty on cricket website [[ESPNcricinfo\|Cricinfo]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/btw/archives/2011/01/usaca_continues.php \|title=USACA continues to stay silent \|publisher=Blogs.espncricinfo.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527142534/http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/btw/archives/2011/01/usaca_continues.php \|archive-date=27 May 2012 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>		Khan never played for the USA again and paid the price for his outspoken and open criticism of the current [[United States of America Cricket Association]] administration, led by Gladstone Dainty. In January 2010, he again criticised the [[United States of America Cricket Association]] and its president Gladstone Dainty on cricket website [[ESPNcricinfo\|Cricinfo]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/btw/archives/2011/01/usaca_continues.php \|title=USACA continues to stay silent \|publisher=Blogs.espncricinfo.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-07-04 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527142534/http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/btw/archives/2011/01/usaca_continues.php \|archive-date=27 May 2012 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

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'''Amjad Khan''' (born 21 August 1966) is a [[Kashmir]]i-born-[[America]]n former [[cricket]]er. Khan was a right-handed [[batsman (cricket)|batsman]] who bowled right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium-fast]] and who could occasionally field as a [[wicket-keeper]]. He was born at [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].

Khan made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut for [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team|Jammu and Kashmir]] in the 1988/89 [[Ranji Trophy]] against [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]. He made one further first-class appearance for the state that season, which came against [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]].<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Amjad Khan |publisher=Cricketarchive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> In his two matches for the state, he scored 42 runs at a [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]] of 10.50, with a high score of 22.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Amjad Khan |publisher=Cricketarchive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> The following year in 1989, [[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team|Jammu and Kashmir]] did not participate in the [[Ranji Trophy]] due to the political unrest.

In 1990, he left [[Kashmir]] for the [[United States of America]] to find a safer and a better life. Playing for the New York Eagles, a Caribbean-centred club, he led them to three championship's in the Commonwealth Cricket League, the largest league in America. In 1996, Khan moved to Northern California and continued his run scoring spree on the west coast as well. A prolific run scorer in American domestic Cricket for close to two decades, Khan holds the record high score for a batsman in [[North America]] when he scored 304[[not out|*]] in a quarter final match for United Cricket Club against Berkeley Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association in 1999, although this match is not a senior match. He is one of only three players to have scored a triple century in any form of [[limited overs cricket]]. Amjad achieved another unique feat on 30 September 2012 when he scored the {{cite web|url=http://newyorkcricket.com/news/2012/09/everestacs-and-richmond-in-the-final-showdown-of-the-season/ |title=Fastest century in US cricket history}} <ref>{{cite web|url=http://newyorkcricket.com/news/2012/09/everestacs-and-richmond-in-the-final-showdown-of-the-season/ |title=Everest/ACS’ Amjad Khan’s Blitz Crushes Richmond Hill|publisher=newyorkcricket.com |date= |accessdate=2012-09-30}}</ref> in the final of the Eastern American Cricket Association's Twenty/20 Blitz. Playing the final at [[Baisley Park]], in [[Richmond Hill, Queens|Richmond Hill]], [[New York (state)|New York]], Khan scored his century against Richmond Hill CC and it took him just 56 balls to reach the hundred that included 9 fours and 7 sixes.

He was selected to play for the [[United States national cricket team|United States]] in the 2000/01 [[Red Stripe Bowl]]. The matches in this competition had [[List A cricket|List A status]], as such his List A debut came against [[Jamaica national cricket team|Jamaica]]. He played three further List A matches in the tournament, the last of which came against [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team|Trinidad and Tobago]].<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/List_A_Matches.html |title=List A Matches played by Amjad Khan |publisher=Cricketarchive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> In his four List A matches for the United States, Khan scored 61 runs at an average of 15.25, with a high score of 36.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/a_Batting_by_Team.html |title=ListA Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Amjad Khan |publisher=Cricketarchive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> He took a single wicket with the ball at a [[bowling average]] of 50 and best figures of 1/45.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/a_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=List A Bowling For Each Team by Amjad Khan |publisher=Cricketarchive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref> His final match for the United States came in a Man of the Match performance in the [[2002 ICC Americas Championship]] against [[Bermuda cricket team|Bermuda]] that was played in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/Other_matches.html |title=Other matches played by Amjad Khan |publisher=Cricketarchive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04 |archive-date=23 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023185629/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/Other_matches.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Khan never played for the USA again and paid the price for his outspoken and open criticism of the current [[United States of America Cricket Association]] administration, led by Gladstone Dainty. In January 2010, he again criticised the [[United States of America Cricket Association]] and its president Gladstone Dainty on cricket website [[ESPNcricinfo|Cricinfo]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/btw/archives/2011/01/usaca_continues.php |title=USACA continues to stay silent |publisher=Blogs.espncricinfo.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527142534/http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/btw/archives/2011/01/usaca_continues.php |archive-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Khan currently lives with his family on [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], where he works for [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/25664.html |title=Cricinfo profile |publisher=Espncricinfo.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[:Category:Lists of cricketers|Lists of cricketers]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/25664.html Amjad Khan] at [[Cricinfo]]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21158/21158.html Amjad Khan] at CricketArchive

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[[Category:American people of Kashmiri descent]]
[[Category:People from Srinagar]]
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[[Category:American sportspeople of Indian descent]]
[[Category:Jammu and Kashmir cricketers]]
[[Category:People from Long Island]]