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{{Short description|Pakistani cricketer}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Niaz Ahmed
| image = Niaz Ahmed of Pakistan.png
| caption = Niaz Ahmed in 1967
| fullname = Niaz Ahmed Siddiqi
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|11|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Varanasi]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|4|12|1945|11|11|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
| club1 = [[Dacca cricket team|Dacca]]
| year1 = 1964–65
| club2 = [[Public Works Department cricket team|Public Works Department]]
| year2 = 1965–66 to 1969–70, 1971–72 to 1973–74
| club3 = [[East Pakistan cricket team|East Pakistan]]
| year3 = 1966–67 to 1968–69
| club4 = [[Pakistan Railways cricket team|Pakistan Railways]]
| year4 = 1970–71
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 17
| bat avg1 = –
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 16[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 294
| wickets1 = 3
| bowl avg1 = 31.33
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/72
| catches/stumpings1= 1/–
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches2 = 39
| runs2 = 466
| bat avg2 = 14.56
| 100s/50s2 = 0/3
| top score2 = 71*
| deliveries2 = 5185
| wickets2 = 62
| bowl avg2 = 38.45
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 5/86
| catches/stumpings2= 31/–
| international = true
| country = Pakistan
| testcap = 55
| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 10 August
| testdebutyear = 1967
| lasttestdate = 28 February
| lasttestfor =
| lasttestagainst = England
| lasttestyear = 1969
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/42069.html ESPNCricinfo
| date = 15 June
| year = 2017
}}

'''Niaz Ahmed Siddiqi''' (11 November 1945 – 12 April 2000) was a Pakistani [[cricket]]er who played in two [[Test cricket|Tests]] in 1967 and 1969. He was the only [[East Pakistan]]i to play Test cricket for [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ask-steven-how-many-players-have-started-their-careers-with-three-successive-fifties-in-odis-1263977 |title=How many players have started their careers with three successive fifties in ODIs? |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=25 May 2021}}</ref>

==Early career==
Ahmed was born in [[Benares]], and his family moved to [[Dhaka|Dacca]] in East Pakistan after the [[Partition of India|independence]] of [[Pakistan]] in 1947.<ref name="WCA">''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 2004, pp. 1549-50.</ref> A fast-medium bowler and tailend batsman, he made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut for [[Dacca cricket team|Dacca]] in March 1966 against [[Karachi cricket teams|Karachi Whites]] in the [[Quaid-e-Azam Trophy]], taking three catches and three wickets in the first innings.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27961.html Dacca v Karachi Whites 1964–65]</ref>

He joined the [[Pakistan Public Works Department]], where he worked as an engineer,<ref name="WCA"/> and played for the [[Public Works Department cricket team]] from May 1966. When the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club Under-25 cricket team in Pakistan in 1966–67|MCC Under-25 team]] in 1966–67 played three matches against a Pakistan Under-25 team, he played in the second match, in Dacca, taking one wicket.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28619.html Pakistan Under-25 v MCC Under-25, Dacca 1966–67]</ref>

==Playing for Pakistan==
After five first-class matches in which he had bowled only 84 overs and taken seven wickets,<ref name="Niaz Ahmed bowling by season">[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1302/f_Bowling_by_Season.html Niaz Ahmed bowling by season]</ref> Ahmed was selected to tour England with the [[Pakistani cricket team in England in 1967|Pakistan team in 1967]]. Owing to injuries among his teammates he played 11 of the 17 first-class matches and bowled more overs than any of the other pace bowlers, taking 25 wickets at 34.52. Reporting on the tour in ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'', [[Qamaruddin Butt]] referred to him as "an acquisition".<ref>[[Qamaruddin Butt]], "Pakistan in England, 1967", ''Wisden'' 1968, pp. 307–34.</ref>

In his first match on tour he took 5 for 86 (the only time in his career when he took more than three wickets in an innings) against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28884.html Kent v Pakistanis 1967]</ref> In the match against [[Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket|Minor Counties]] he went to the wicket in the second innings with the score at 94 for 9 and the Pakistanis leading by only 72. Although his previous best score was only 15, he hit 69, "driving fearlessly and snicking luckily", added 124 for the last wicket with [[Salahuddin (cricketer)|Salahuddin]], and then took two early wickets to help the Pakistanis to a narrow victory.<ref>''Wisden'' 1968, p. 320.</ref>

With [[Saleem Altaf]] injured and [[Arif Butt]] out of form, Ahmed was selected for the Second Test. He took 2 for 72 off 37 overs in the first innings,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29027.html England v Pakistan, Nottingham 1967]</ref> but Pakistan lost, and Altaf, fit again, replaced him for the Third Test.

He played for a BCCP XI against the touring International XI in 1967–68, and for a strong President's XI against the touring Commonwealth XI a few weeks later, but without notable success. He played for another BCCP XI against the MCC in 1968–69,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29913.html BCCP XI v MCC 1968–69]</ref> and was selected to replace [[Asif Masood]] as Pakistan's leading pace bowler for the Second Test in Dacca. His selection owed more to the [[Pakistan Cricket Board|BCCP's]] desire to include an East Pakistan player to try to appease local political protesters than to his own or Masood's form.<ref name="WCA"/> He took one wicket off 12 overs in the drawn match<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29937.html Pakistan v England, Dacca 1968–69]</ref> and Masood returned to the side for the Third Test in [[Karachi]].

According to [[Shahryar Khan|Shaharyar Khan]], it was not the only time Ahmed was used for political purposes: "There was a club-level cricketer from Dhaka called Niaz Ahmed who was Pakistan's perennial 12th man for quite some time, the Pakistan Cricket Board attempting to give the entirely unconvincing impression that East Pakistan was on the verge of national representation. The fact was that no effort was made by the governments of Pakistan or by the cricket boards to promote cricket in East Pakistan."<ref>[[Shahryar Khan|Shaharyar M. Khan]] and Ali Khan, ''Cricket Cauldron'', I.B. Tauris, London, 2013, p. 26.</ref>

==Later career==
After 1968–69, in 14 more first-class matches,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1302/f_Batting_by_Season.html Niaz Ahmed batting by season]</ref> he took only 11 more wickets.<ref name="Niaz Ahmed bowling by season"/> In 1969–70, batting at number eight for Public Works Department against [[Bahawalpur cricket team|Bahawalpur]], he made his highest score, 71 not out, top-scoring for Public Works Department and taking them to a narrow first-innings lead.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/30/30691.html Bahawalpur v Public Works Department 1969–70]</ref>

When [[Bangladesh]] achieved independence in 1972 he moved to Karachi.<ref name="WCA"/> He captained Public Works Department in his last two matches in 1973–74. They won his last match but were then disqualified from the [[Patron's Trophy]] "due to the inclusion of ineligible players".<ref>''Wisden'' 1975, p. 1018.</ref>

Between 1996 and 2000 he served as a referee in a number of first-class and [[List A cricket|List A]] matches in Pakistan.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1302/statistics_lists.html Lists of matches and detailed statistics for Niaz Ahmed]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1302/1302.html Niaz Ahmed at CricketArchive]
* {{Cricinfo|id=42069}}
* [https://cricketthrills.com/niaz-ahmad-only-east-pakistans-test-player/ Niaz Ahmad – Only East Pakistan’s Test Player]

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