31 Facts About Sajid Mahmood

Sajid Iqbal Mahmood is a former English cricketer, who played all formats of the game.

Sajid Mahmood is a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played international cricket for England and county cricket for Lancashire and Essex.

Sajid Mahmood was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester on 21 December 1981, the son of Shahid Sajid Mahmood, and grew up with his family.

Sajid Mahmood has a sister and two brothers and is first cousin to boxer Amir Khan.

Sajid Mahmood began playing club cricket in the Bolton Leagues, and played well enough to be signed by Lancashire in 2002.

Sajid Mahmood made his debut for Lancashire in 2002 whilst on a scholarship with the club.

Sajid Mahmood won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2003; in the same year, he inadvertently broke the hands of Lancashire teammate Andrew Flintoff and England A teammate Alex Gidman, an early indicator of his pace.

On 26 November 2008, Sajid Mahmood was drafted into England's squad for the last two ODI matches against India in their seven match tour.

Sajid Mahmood was part of the England Lions for the winter tour of New Zealand.

Sajid Mahmood was one of several Lancashire bowlers unable to play in August 2009.

Sajid Mahmood played in five matches for them, taking five wickets at an average of 30.2.

In June 2011, in a match against Durham, Sajid Mahmood took his second ten-wicket haul in first-class cricket.

Sajid Mahmood attributed his bowling success in 2011 to being more focused on playing for Lancashire; he said that before he had been distracted by trying to earn selection for England and that he performs better when relaxed.

Sajid Mahmood then joined Essex for the 2013 English domestic season.

Later in the 2013 season after an unsuccessful spell Sajid Mahmood was dropped and was allowed to join Ainsdale CC in the LDCC league until the end of the season where he enjoyed a successful spell of wicket taking and confidence building.

Sajid Mahmood returned to the Essex squad for the 2014 season before being released.

Sajid Mahmood made his One Day International debut for England against New Zealand at Bristol in July 2004, but his seven overs proved expensive, conceding 56 runs without a wicket.

Sajid Mahmood was included in the Test squad against Sri Lanka in 2006 following injuries to Steve Harmison, James Anderson and Simon Jones, and earned his first cap on 11 May 2006 in the first Test at Lord's, becoming England's 633rd Test player.

England reached an imposing first-innings score of 551, and Sajid Mahmood took three wickets in his first four overs in Test cricket at the end of the second day, as the Sri Lankan team disintegrated to 91 for 6 at the close.

Sajid Mahmood was unable to add to his tally before Sri Lanka were forced to follow on early on the third day, but added two further wickets in Sri Lanka's more composed second innings on the fourth day.

Sajid Mahmood was replaced by Jon Lewis for the third Test against Sri Lanka.

Sajid Mahmood contributed 34 runs with the bat in England's first innings, but then went for 108 runs over 24 overs, albeit with two wickets, in a high-scoring Pakistan first innings.

Sajid Mahmood featured in the final match of the series, dubbed Ovalgate.

Sajid Mahmood featured sporadically in the test, bowling just 7 overs in Australia's first innings and 10 in their second, taking no wickets.

Sajid Mahmood later expressed his unhappiness about not bowling more during the test.

Sajid Mahmood played in the ODI match against Australia on 2 February 2007 in Sydney, taking 2 wickets for 38 runs, and sharing the new ball with fellow fast bowler Liam Plunkett.

Sajid Mahmood took the wicket of Brad Hodge by bowling him.

Sajid Mahmood took the wicket of destructive batsman Matthew Hayden after Hayden had scored 51.

Sajid Mahmood has appeared in a Bollywood film called Victory.

England won and Sajid Mahmood was awarded Man of the Match.

Sajid Mahmood has coached at Roehampton and Fulham Cricket Club in South London, and as of September 2018, has been Head of Cricket at William Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford, Middlesex.