Zaheer Abbas is among few professional cricketers who used to wear spectacles.
12 Facts About Zaheer Abbas
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Zaheer Abbas had great success in first-class cricket, and is the only Asian batsman to score one hundred first-class centuries.
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Zaheer Abbas had a long stint with Gloucestershire; joining the county in 1972, he remained there for thirteen years.
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Zaheer Abbas made over two thousand runs in a single season on two occasions for the club.
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Zaheer Abbas averaged 49.79, hitting 49 hundreds and 76 fifties.
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Zaheer Abbas is the only player to have scored a century and double century in a first-class match four times, finishing each of the eight innings not out.
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Zaheer Abbas had two stints as captain of the national team in 1981 and 1984.
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Zaheer Abbas retired from international cricket in 1985, and has officiated as a match referee in one Test and three ODI matches.
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Zaheer Abbas has worked as the manager of the national team.
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Zaheer Abbas was one of the player who was famous for his title.
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Zaheer Abbas held the record for scoring the most runs by any batsman in a 4 match bilateral ODI series from 1982 to 2015.
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Zaheer Abbas married Indian born Rita Luthra in 1988.