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{{short description|Indian cricketer}}
{{Other people|Abid Ali}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Syed Abid Ali
| image = Syed Abid Ali.png
| country = India
| fullname =
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|9|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], [[Hyderabad State]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[fast bowling|medium-fast]]
| role = [[All-rounder]]
| family =
| international = true
| testdebutdate = 23 December
| testdebutyear = 1967
| testdebutagainst = Australia
| testcap = 116
| lasttestdate = 15 December
| lasttestyear = 1974
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| odidebutdate = 13 July
| odidebutyear = 1974
| odidebutagainst = England
| odicap = 1
| lastodidate = 14 June
| lastodiyear = 1975
| lastodiagainst = New Zealand
| odishirt =
| club1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1959/60–1978/79}}
| columns = 4
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 29
| runs1 = 1,018
| bat avg1 = 20.36
| 100s/50s1 = 0/6
| top score1 = 81
| deliveries1 = 4,164
| wickets1 = 47
| bowl avg1 = 42.12
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/55
| catches/stumpings1 = 32/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
| matches2 = 5
| runs2 = 93
| bat avg2 = 31.00
| 100s/50s2 = 0/1
| top score2 = 70
| deliveries2 = 336
| wickets2 = 7
| bowl avg2 = 26.71
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 2/22
| catches/stumpings2 = 0/–
| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches3 = 212
| runs3 = 8,732
| bat avg3 = 29.30
| 100s/50s3 = 13/41
| top score3 = 173[[not out|*]]
| deliveries3 = 25,749
| wickets3 = 397
| bowl avg3 = 28.55
| fivefor3 = 14
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 6/23
| catches/stumpings3 = 190/5
| column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches4 = 12
| runs4 = 169
| bat avg4 = 28.16
| 100s/50s4 = 0/1
| top score4 = 70
| deliveries4 = 783
| wickets4 = 19
| bowl avg4 = 19.31
| fivefor4 = 0
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 3/20
| catches/stumpings4 = 5/–
| date = 30 September
| year = 2008
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1304/1304.html CricketArchive
}}

'''Syed Abid Ali''' {{Audio|Abid Ali.ogg|pronunciation}} (born 9 September 1941) is a former [[all-rounder]] [[Indian cricket team|Indian cricketer]]. He was a lower order batsman and a medium pace bowler.

==Early life==
Abid Ali attended the [[St. George's Grammar School (Hyderabad)|St. George's Grammar School]] and [[All Saints High School (Hyderabad)|All Saints High School]] in Hyderabad.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://themoroccantimes.com/2015/12/17641/saints-high-school-160-glorious-years-academic-excellence | title=All Saints’ High School — 160 Glorious Years of Academic Excellence! | work=The Moroccan Times |last1=Siddiqui |first1= Ahmed Mohiuddin | date=December 13, 2015 | accessdate=September 1, 2019}}</ref> In 1956, he was picked to play for Hyderabad Schools by the selectors, who were impressed by his fielding. He scored 82 against Kerala and won the best fielder's prize. A few years later when [[State Bank of Hyderabad]] formed a cricket team, he was given a job there. He started off as a [[wicket keeper]] before becoming a bowler.

==Playing career==
Abid made it to the Hyderabad junior side in 1958–59 and the state [[Ranji Trophy]] team in the next year. He hardly bowled in the first few years and did not score his first Ranji hundred till 1967. He was unexpectedly picked for the team to tour [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] that year.

He made it to the team for the first Test against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] possibly in the place of the captain [[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi|M. A. K. Pataudi]] who dropped out injured. Abid scored 33 in both innings and took 6 wickets for 55,<ref name="espncricinfo">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63010.html |title=1st Test: Australia v India at Adelaide, Dec 23-28, 1967 |accessdate=2011-12-13|work=espncricinfo}}</ref> the best by Indian on debut at this point. Sent in to open the batting in the third Test, he hit 47. This was followed by innings of 81 and 78 in the final Test.

Abid was the non-striker when [[Sunil Gavaskar]] scored the winning runs against the [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] in the [[Queen's Park Oval|Port of Spain]] Test of 1971. When [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] tried to chase a difficult target in the final Test of the series, Abid bowled [[Rohan Kanhai]] and [[Garry Sobers]] in consecutive balls. A few months later, he hit the winning boundary when India defeated [[English cricket team|England]] by four wickets at the Oval.<ref name=Subrahmanyam />

In the [[Old Trafford (cricket)|Manchester]] Test of the same series, he took the first four wickets for 19 runs before lunch on the first day to reduce England to 4 for 41.

He played nine more Test matches, and scored 70 runs against New Zealand in the [[1975 cricket World Cup|1975 World Cup]]. He continued to play first class cricket for four more years. Abid Ali scored more than 2000 runs and took over hundred wickets for Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy. His highest individual score was 173 not out against Kerala in 1968-69 and his best bowling was 6 for 23 against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] at [[the Oval]] in 1974.

==Coaching career==
Abid coached the junior team of Hyderabad for a few years, before moving to California in 1980. He coached Maldives in late 1990s and UAE between 2002 and 2005. Before coaching UAE, he trained the Andhra team that won the South Zone league in Ranji Trophy in 2001-02. He currently continues to reside in California, where he now coaches promising youngsters at the Stanford Cricket Academy.<ref name=Subrahmanyam>V. V. Subrahmanyam, ''Abid needs help'', [[Sportstar]], 4 March 2006 [http://www.sportstaronnet.com/tss2909/stories/20060304013203500.htm]</ref>

==Personal life==
Obituaries for Abid Ali appeared in the media in the early 1990s; in fact he survived [[Coronary artery bypass surgery|heart bypass surgery]].<ref name=Subrahmanyam />

He has two children, a daughter and a son.

==See also==
* [[List of India cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

* Sujit Mukherjee, ''Matched winners'', Orient Longman (1996), p 76-90
* Christopher Martin-Jenkins, ''Who's Who of Test Cricketers''

==External links==
* {{ESPNcricinfo|id=26169}}

{{India Squad 1975 Cricket World Cup}}

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