Owais Alam Shah was born on 22 October 1978 and is a former England cricketer.
25 Facts About Owais Shah
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Owais Shah played Twenty20 cricket for Hampshire in 2014 and 2015.
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Owais Shah represented England in all forms of the game.
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Owais Shah represented the Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders during the 2009 and 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.
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Shah was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan; a cricketing prodigy as an adolescent, Owais Shah began his career playing cricket for Wycombe House Cricket Club, breaking a number of club records.
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Owais Shah scored a league 154 for the senior first XI when aged only 12.
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Owais Shah won numerous awards for the club including the Ken Barrington National Cup.
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Owais Shah made his first-class debut at age 17 in 1996 and won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 1997.
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Later that summer, he made 62 against Pakistan, and in 2001 Owais Shah was named by the Cricket Writers' Club as their Young Cricketer of the Year.
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Owais Shah attended Isleworth and Syon School for Boys, Lampton School for his A Levels and is a university graduate.
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Owais Shah suffered from a perception that his fielding was below par, something close to unforgivable in the modern one-day game, and he was dropped from the England side without having had a chance at Test cricket.
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Owais Shah 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.
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Owais Shah made his Test debut in the third Test at Mumbai on 18 March 2006, making 88 in his first Test innings.
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Owais Shah returned to the England Test squad, after 15 months out, for the first Test match against the 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.
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Owais Shah was dropped from the squad for the second Test following captain Michael Vaughan's return to fitness.
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Owais Shah was brought back for the ODI series, including two Twenty20 Internationals.
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Owais Shah 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.
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Owais Shah toured Sri Lanka with England in late 2007, and then played in the ODI series against New Zealand in early 2008.
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Owais 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 Australia.
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Owais Shah had a poor ODI series against Australia in 2009, failing to record a score of higher than 44 in all seven matches.
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Owais Shah was then traded to Kolkata Knight Riders in exchange of Moises Henriques.
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Owais Shah was bought by the new team Kochi Tuskers Kerala for $200,000 and played for them in the fourth season of the IPL.
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Owais Shah was recommended by his former Middlesex colleague Stephen Fleming.
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Owais Shah played for the Cape Cobras in South Africa winning the first-class, one day and Pro20 competitions during his stay.
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Owais Shah served as interim head coach of United Arab Emirates national team from November 2016 to January 2017, when he was succeeded by Dougie Brown.