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	[[File:1932 Indian Test Cricket team.jpg\|thumb\|left\|The 1932 Indian Test Cricket team that toured England. Syed Wazir Ali is seen sitting first on the bench followed by [[C. K. Nayudu]], [[Maharaja of Porbandar]] (Captain), [[K. S. Limbdi]] (Vice-captain) and [[Nazir Ali]], his brother.]]		[[File:1932 Indian Test Cricket team.jpg\|thumb\|left\|The 1932 Indian Test Cricket team that toured England. Syed Wazir Ali is seen sitting first on the bench followed by [[C. K. Nayudu]], [[Maharaja of Porbandar]] (Captain), [[K. S. Limbdi]] (Vice-captain) and [[Nazir Ali]], his brother.]]
	Wazir played in all the Tests that India played before the second world war. In the [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1932#Test_summary\|tour of England in 1932]], he scored 1229 runs in first class matches and 1725 overall. In the [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1936\|next tour in 1936]] he was hampered by a hand injury but recorded his highest score of 42 in the Test at [[Old Trafford (cricket)\|Manchester]].~~{{Citation needed\|date=February 2010}}~~		Wazir played in all the Tests that India played before the second world war. In the [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1932#Test_summary\|tour of England in 1932]], he scored 1229 runs in first class matches and 1725 overall. In the [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1936\|next tour in 1936]] he was hampered by a hand injury but recorded his highest score of 42 in the Test at [[Old Trafford (cricket)\|Manchester]].

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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Wazir Ali
| image = Wazir Ali 1932.jpg
| caption = Wazir Ali in 1932
| country = India
| fullname = Syed Wazir Ali
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|09|15|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Jalandhar|Jullundur]], [[Punjab, India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|6|17|1903|9|15|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]], [[Sind]]
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium pace
| role = All-rounder
| family = [[Nazir Ali]] (brother) <br /> [[Khalid Wazir]] (son)
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 7
| runs1 = 237
| bat avg1 = 16.92
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 42
| deliveries1 = 30
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 121
| runs2 = 7,212
| bat avg2 = 38.77
| 100s/50s2 = 22/21
| top score2 = 268[[not out|*]]
| deliveries2 = 2,308
| wickets2 = 34
| bowl avg2 = 30.67
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 5/22
| catches/stumpings2 = 59
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1932-1936

| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 25 June
| testdebutyear = 1932
| lasttestdate = 15 August
| lasttestagainst = England
| lasttestyear = 1936

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35940.html CricInfo
| date = 10 May
| year = 2020
}}

'''Syed Wazir Ali''' ({{Audio|Wazir Ali.ogg|pronunciation}}; 15 September 1903 – 17 June 1950) was a prominent figure in early [[Indian cricket team|Indian]] [[cricket]]. He was a right-handed batsman and a medium pace bowler.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/35940.html |title=Wazir Ali|accessdate=10 May 2020 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:1932 Indian Test Cricket team.jpg|thumb|left|The 1932 Indian Test Cricket team that toured England. Syed Wazir Ali is seen sitting first on the bench followed by [[C. K. Nayudu]], [[Maharaja of Porbandar]] (Captain), [[K. S. Limbdi]] (Vice-captain) and [[Nazir Ali]], his brother.]]
Wazir played in all the Tests that India played before the second world war. In the [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1932#Test_summary|tour of England in 1932]], he scored 1229 runs in first class matches and 1725 overall. In the [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1936|next tour in 1936]] he was hampered by a hand injury but recorded his highest score of 42 in the Test at [[Old Trafford (cricket)|Manchester]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

==First class cricket==
Wazir was educated at [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. He made his first-class debut, aged 19, for Muslims against Sikhs at Lawrence Gardens (now [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore|Bagh-e-Jinnah]]), Lahore in the 1922-23 Lahore Tournament. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Parvez|first=Salim|last2=August 2020|first2=Cricket World Monday 24|title=Syed Wazir Ali - A champion Muslim cricketer|url=https://www.cricketworld.com/syed-wazir-ali-a-champion-muslim-cricketer/65207.htm|access-date=2020-12-17|website=Cricket World}}</ref>
For most of his [[first class cricket|first class]] career he played for Southern Punjab in the [[Ranji Trophy]] and Muslims in the [[Bombay Pentangular]]. His unbeaten 222 in the 1938/39 Ranji final against [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] was then the highest in the tournament.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} Bengal had earlier been all out for 222, but Southern Punjab still ended up in the losing side. His career best score of 268 not out for Indian University Occasionals in 1935 was the highest score in Indian first class cricket. Both records were beaten by [[Vijay Hazare]]'s undefeated 316 in 1939/40.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

As a cricketing figure, Wazir Ali was second only to [[C.K. Nayudu]] among his contemporary Indian cricketers but he apparently resented it having to play second fiddle to Nayudu.<ref>Bose, p. 71</ref> Nayudu had many rivals and Wazir was often a stalking-horse for them.<ref>Bose, pp. 76–77</ref> [[Mihir Bose]] contrasted the two: "To an extent Nayudu and Wazir Ali were natural rivals. Wazir, like Nayudu, was a powerful right-hand bat who could play some very elegant strokes including a charming cover drive, and he was also a more than useful medium-pace change bowler. Like Nayudu he played in only seven Tests, all against England, and did not have the opportunity to demonstrate his class or his ability to its full extent. What set the two men apart was that Wazir, eight years younger than Nayudu, did not possess the older man's determination and his obsession with the game. Nayudu was, undoubtedly the greater cricketer, and he left a deeper impression on the game … Wazir in contrast, died at the age of forty-six after an operation for appendicitis just three years after Pakistan was created, and he had little chance to impose his personality of the post-war game in that country.<ref>Bose, p. 76</ref>

Wazir [[Captain (cricket)|captained]] India in two unofficial Tests against an Australian XI in 1935/36. Nayudu had captained the side in the first two matches of the series and dropped out of the matches in which Wazir captained the side. "Wazir went to his grave nursing a deep grievance against Nayudu",<ref>Bose, p. 99</ref> though it seems that Nayudu was genuinely unable to play.

==Later life==
After the [[Partition of India|independence]] of [[Pakistan]] in 1947, Wazir migrated to [[Pakistan]] and ended his life in poverty. Cashman quotes a Pakistani official that "during his last days, Wazir lived precariously on his own meagre savings in a small quarters in Soldiers Bazar where he struggled against poverty and disease".<ref>Richard Cashman (1980) ''Patrons, Players and the Crowd'', Orient Longman.</ref>

His son [[Khalid Wazir]] played two Tests for [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/41041.html |title=Khalid Wazir |website=ESPNcricinfo.com}}</ref> Wazir was the elder brother of [[Nazir Ali]].

==References==
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==Cited sources==
*Mihir Bose (1990) ''A History of Indian Cricket'', Andre Deutsch, {{ISBN|0-233-98563-8}}

==External links==
*{{Commonscat-inline|Wazir Ali}}
* {{ESPNcricinfo |id= 35940 }}

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