Abdul-Kadeer Ali is an English first-class cricketer who is currently Assistant Head Coach at Worcestershire, where he started his first class playing career.
14 Facts About Kadeer Ali
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Kadeer Ali later played for Gloucestershire, Leicestershire and minor counties side Staffordshire as well as appearing for England A Kadeer Ali was capped by Gloucestershire in 2005.
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Opening the batting with Jonathan Wright, Kadeer Ali scored 24 but was unable to stop his team falling to a five-run defeat.
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Kadeer Ali stated he wanted to fulfil his dream of opening the batting with his childhood hero and cricketing mentor Haseeb Bajwa.
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Kadeer Ali played three other first-class games and one List A match that season, but did nothing significant in any of them.
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Kadeer Ali never scored a century for the county, falling agonisingly short in September 2003 when he was dismissed for 99 in a County Championship game against Yorkshire.
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Kadeer Ali was selected for the ECB National Academy squad, and in December 2002 scored exactly 100 in a one-day match at Richardson Park, Perth against an England XI captained by Mark Butcher and containing several other capped England players.
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Kadeer Ali turned down Worcestershire's offer of a new contract for 2005 after being told he could not be guaranteed a place in the first team, and instead signed for Gloucestershire.
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Kadeer Ali was much more involved in that form of the game the following season, and hit two centuries.
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Kadeer Ali reached three figures twice in first-class cricket, finishing with 903 runs, his best season's aggregate.
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Early in the 2011 season Kadeer Ali played a couple of games for Leicestershire on a trial basis.
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Kadeer Ali did not impress enough to warrant a full contract and drifted into minor counties cricket with Staffordshire.
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Kadeer Ali was second XI coach at Worcestershire from 2019 until he was made Assistant Head Coach ahead of the 2023 season.