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{{For|the Jammu and Kashmir player|Owais Shah (Indian cricketer)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Owais Shah
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Owais Alam Shah
| nickname = Ace
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|10|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], Pakistan
| heightft = 6
| heightinch = 1
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[Off spin|off break]]
| role = [[Batting (cricket)|Batsman]]
| international = true
| internationalspan = 2001–2009
| testcap = 632
| testdebutdate = 18 March
| testdebutyear = 2006
| testdebutagainst = India
| lasttestdate = 6 March
| lasttestyear = 2009
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| odicap = 163
| odidebutdate = 10 June
| odidebutyear = 2001
| odidebutagainst = Australia
| lastodidate = 2 October
| lastodiyear = 2009
| lastodiagainst = Australia
| odishirt = 3 (prev. 69)
| T20Icap = 27
| T20Idebutdate = 28 June
| T20Idebutyear = 2007
| T20Idebutagainst = West Indies
| lastT20Idate = 30 August
| lastT20Iyear = 2009
| lastT20Iagainst = Australia
| club1 = [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]
| year1 = 1995–2010
| club2 = [[Delhi Daredevils]]
| year2 = 2009
| club3 = [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]
| year3 = 2009/10
| club4 = [[Kolkata Knight Riders]]
| year4 = 2010
| club5 = [[Cape Cobras]]
| year5 = 2010/11–2012/13
| club6 = [[Kochi Tuskers Kerala]]
| year6 = 2011
| club7 = [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]
| year7 = 2011–2013
| club8 = [[Hobart Hurricanes]]
| year8 = 2011/12–2013/14
| club9 = [[Rajasthan Royals]]
| year9 = 2012–2013
| club10 = [[Dhaka Platoon|Dhaka Gladiators]]
| year10 = 2013
| club11 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| year11 = 2014–2015
| club12 = [[Jamaica Tallawahs]]
| year12 = 2014
| club13 = [[Sylhet Thunder|Sylhet Super Stars]]
| year13 = 2015
| columns = 4
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 6
| runs1 = 269
| bat avg1 = 26.90
| 100s/50s1 = 0/2
| top score1 = 88
| deliveries1 = 30
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 0/12
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
| matches2 = 71
| runs2 = 1,834
| bat avg2 = 30.56
| 100s/50s2 = 1/12
| top score2 = 107[[Not out|*]]
| deliveries2 = 193
| wickets2 = 7
| bowl avg2 = 26.28
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 3/15
| catches/stumpings2 = 21/–
| column3 = [[Twenty20 International|T20I]]
| matches3 = 17
| runs3 = 347
| bat avg3 = 24.78
| 100s/50s3 = –/1
| top score3 = 55[[Not out|*]]
| deliveries3 = –
| wickets3 = –
| bowl avg3 = –
| fivefor3 = –
| tenfor3 = –
| best bowling3 = –
| catches/stumpings3 = 5/–
| column4 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches4 = 252
| runs4 = 16,357
| bat avg4 = 41.94
| 100s/50s4 = 45/79
| top score4 = 203
| deliveries4 = 2,266
| wickets4 = 26
| bowl avg4 = 57.88
| fivefor4 = 0
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 3/33
| catches/stumpings4 = 200/–
| date = 26 April
| year = 2016
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/owais-shah-20123 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Owais Alam Shah''' (born 22 October 1978) is a former England [[cricket]]er. A middle-order [[Batting (cricket)|batsman]], he played for [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] from 1995 to 2010 and [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] from 2011 to 2013 before announcing his retirement from [[first-class cricket]]. He played [[Twenty20]] cricket for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] in 2014 and 2015. He also represented [[England cricket team|England]] in all forms of the game.

Between 2001 and 2009, he played 71 [[One Day International|ODIs]] and 17 [[Twenty20 International]]s. He also played 6 [[Test cricket|Tests]], starting with a strong 88 on debut against [[India cricket team|India]] in 2006, however opportunities were limited and he did not make his third appearance until 2009 against the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] in 2008–09. With [[Michael Vaughan]] retired and [[Ian Bell]] dropped, Shah had the opportunity to claim the number three position for himself, however a weak series saw him dropped in favour of [[Ravi Bopara]].

He also represented the [[Indian Premier League]] team [[Kolkata Knight Riders]] during the [[2009 Indian Premier League|2009]] and [[2010 Indian Premier League|2010]] seasons before being bought by [[Kochi Tuskers Kerala]] for the following two seasons, and had a short stint at the [[Wellington Firebirds]] in New Zealand. After Kochi Tuskers were excluded from the [[2012 Indian Premier League|2012]] season, he played for [[Rajasthan Royals]] in [[IPL 5]].

==Early career==
Shah was born in [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], [[Pakistan]]; a cricketing prodigy as an adolescent,<ref name="IndependentShahHappy">{{cite news
| last = Brenkley
| first = Stephen
| title = Shah happy in look and learn mode
| newspaper = [[The Independent]]
| date = 10 February 2002
| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/shah-happy-in-look-and-learn-mode-660054.html
| access-date = 11 June 2009}}</ref> Owais Shah began his career playing cricket for [[Wycombe House Sports and Social Club#The Cricket Section|Wycombe House Cricket Club]], breaking a number of club records. Owais scored a league 154 for the senior first XI when aged only 12. He won numerous awards for the club including the Ken Barrington National Cup. His maturity at a young age allowed him to work his way through both the England Youth and Middlesex Cricket County System. He made his first-class debut at age 17 in [[1996 English cricket season|1996]] and won the [[NBC Denis Compton Award]] in 1997. In early 1998 he captained England to victory in the Under 19's World Cup in South Africa, and the following season he was [[captain (cricket)|captain]] of the [[England Under-19 cricket team]] for their "Test" match series at home against [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]]. His selection for the England 'A' team that toured Australia in late 1998 at the age of 17 suggested he was on the verge of a call-up to England's Test side.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/72718.html | title=Silverwood and Shah earn vote for winter tours | publisher=[[Cricinfo]] | date=11 September 1996 | access-date=2 November 2008}}</ref> However, two poor seasons followed, and despite being [[county cap|capped]] in [[2000 English cricket season|2000]], by the end of that season—in which he made under 500 first-class runs—he could no longer command a place in the Middlesex first team. However, he made a return to form in [[2001 English cricket season|2001]], averaging 41.60 and making his ODI debut against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] at [[Bristol]]. Later that summer, he made 62 against Pakistan, and in 2001 Shah was named by the [[Cricket Writers' Club]] as their Young Cricketer of the Year. Owais attended Isleworth and Syon School for Boys, Lampton School (Hounslow) for his A Levels and is also a university graduate.

==Return to international cricket==
Despite a fairly solid start to his international career, Shah could not produce the required consistency of form, making just one more fifty in ten innings from 2001/02 to 2002/03. He also suffered from a perception that his fielding was below par, something close to unforgivable in the modern [[one-day cricket|one-day]] game, and he was dropped from the England side without having had a chance at [[Test cricket]]. In [[2004 English cricket season|2004]], a year of success with the bat (1,336 runs at 53.44) was tempered by the loss of his Middlesex captaincy in mid-season after some poor results.

[[2005 English cricket season|2005]] brought much-improved returns, as he was top-scorer of the [[Frizzell County Championship Division One in 2005|First Division of the County Championship]] with two weeks left to play, having made 1578 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 65.75. At the end of the county season in September, Shah was being talked of as a possibility for England's winter tours of Pakistan and [[Indian cricket team|India]].

He was selected for the England 'B' team tour of the West Indies that winter, but was called up to the squad for the first-team tour of India after England suffered several injuries. He made his Test debut in the third Test at [[Mumbai]] on 18 March 2006, making 88 in his first Test innings.

He returned to the England Test squad, after 15 months out, for the [[West Indian cricket team in England in 2007|first Test match]] against the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] at his home ground of [[Lord's]]; however, he scored 6 and 4 in the two innings, in an otherwise productive England batting line-up. He was dropped from the squad for the second Test following captain [[Michael Vaughan]]'s return to fitness.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvwi/content/story/295475.html | title=Sidebottom named in Headingley squad | publisher=[[Cricinfo]] | date=22 May 2007 | access-date=23 May 2007}}</ref>

Shah was, however, brought back for the [[One Day International|ODI]] series, including two [[Twenty20 International]]s. While making little contribution with the bat in the first match, in which England were defeated, Shah hit a match winning 55 off 35 deliveries in the second, with England drawing the Twenty20 series 1–1.<ref>BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6252314.stm ''England v West Indies 2nd Twenty20''] retrieved 29 June 2007</ref> He was later made [[man of the match]]. He has changed his game somewhat in recent times, and is not the classical batsman that he was in his early years; however, he still possesses a wide range of shots, with the pull shot and the fierce slap through extra cover being the most prominent.<ref>BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6254714.stm ''England v West Indies 2nd Twenty20: In pictures''] retrieved 29 June 2007</ref>

His maiden ODI [[Century (cricket)|century]] came against [[India national cricket team|India]] at [[The Oval]] on 5 September 2007, when he made 107* off 95 balls. Later in the same match, he bowled in an ODI for the first time, and with his 17th delivery, took his first ODI wicket, the victim being the Indian captain [[Rahul Dravid]]. Shah toured [[Sri Lanka]] with England in late 2007, and then played in the ODI series against [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] in early 2008. While he had a disappointing ODI series, he top-scored with 96 in the first warm-up match to enhance his claims to the Test squad.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7260383.stm ''Shah enhances England Test claims''] [[BBC News]] retrieved 25 February 2008</ref>

In July 2008 he helped Middlesex win the [[Twenty20 Cup]] with a match winning innings in the final with 75 runs scored off just 35 balls, the highlight of which was three successive sixes over mid-wicket off Kent off-spinner [[James Tredwell]].

After the retirement of captain [[Michael Vaughan]] during summer 2008, Shah had a chance to claim a place on the [[English cricket team in West Indies in 2008-09|tour to the West Indies]]. Although [[Ian Bell]] played the first Test at 3, he was dropped and replaced by Shah for the remainder of the Test series. Shah only managed one half-century, although he did reach 13,000 first-class runs during the third Test, and was not chosen for the summer Tests against [[West Indian cricket team in England in 2009]] and [[2009 Ashes|Australia]].

He had a poor [[Australian cricket team in England in 2009|ODI series against Australia]] in 2009, failing to record a score of higher than 44 in all seven matches. Going into the [[2009 ICC Champions Trophy]], he was under severe pressure for his place, but scored another 44 in the opening match against Sri-Lanka, before a match-winning 98 in the second group game against hosts South Africa. This came too late though, as Shah was not included in any of England's squads for the [[English cricket team in South Africa in 2009-10|tour to South Africa]]. Despite still having a central contract and later being included in the England Performance Squad for the 2010 home series,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/about-ecb/media-releases/ecb-announces-eps-squad,309827,EN.html |title=ECB reveals Performance Squad |work=ECB Press Release |access-date=11 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211094212/http://www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/about-ecb/media-releases/ecb-announces-eps-squad,309827,EN.html |archive-date=11 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he was not included in any of the final squads and did not represent England during 2010.

Middlesex announced on 31 August 2010 that they would not be renewing Shah's contract at the end of the 2010 season.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120306012145/http://www.middlesexccc.com/news-detail.asp?NewsID=2135 Middlesex release Shah at the end of the 2010 season] [[Middlesex County Cricket Club]] retrieved 31 August 2010</ref>

==Indian Premier League==
With England players free to participate in the second season of the Indian Premier League, Owais Shah was signed by the [[Delhi Daredevils]] for $275,000 during their second player auction. He was then traded to [[Kolkata Knight Riders]] in exchange of Moises Henriques. He was bought by the new team [[Kochi Tuskers Kerala]] for $200,000 and played for them in the fourth season of the IPL. In IPL 5 he played for [[Rajasthan Royals]]

==Wellington Firebirds==
On 31 August 2009 it was announced that the [[Wellington Firebirds]] had signed Shah for their domestic Twenty20 competition in December 2009. He was recommended by his former Middlesex colleague Stephen Fleming.<ref>
{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8230889.stm |title=Shah to play Twenty20 event in NZ |date=31 August 2009 |access-date=1 September 2009 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

==Cape Cobras==
Shah played for the Cape Cobras in South Africa winning the first-class, one day and Pro20 competitions during his stay.

==Coaching career ==

Shah served as interim head coach of [[United Arab Emirates national cricket team|United Arab Emirates national team]] from November 2016 to January 2017, when he was succeeded by [[Dougie Brown]]. The sole major tournament for the UAE during that time was the [[2017 Desert T20 Challenge]].<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/owais-shah-named-interim-head-coach-united-arab-emirates-cricket-team-1590161 Shah named interim head coach of the United Arab Emirates cricket team]</ref><ref>[http://www.thenational.ae/sport/cricket/owais-shah-to-continue-as-uae-cricket-coach-another-three-months http://www.thenational.ae/sport/cricket/owais-shah-to-continue-as-uae-cricket-coach-another-three-months]</ref> In November 2020, he was selected by the [[Dambulla Viiking]] as the Head Coach for the [[2020 Lanka Premier League|inaugural edition]] of the [[Lanka Premier League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/30148161/lanka-premier-league-2020-chris-gayle-andre-russell-shahid-afridi-big-names-taken-lpl-draft |title=Chris Gayle, Andre Russell and Shahid Afridi among big names taken at LPL draft |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref>

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