Amjad Khan

Who is Amjad Khan?

Amjad Khan is a Kashmiri born former American cricketer. Khan was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast and who could occasionally field as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

Khan made his first-class debut for Jammu and Kashmir in the 1988/89 Ranji Trophy against Delhi. He made one further first-class appearance for the state that season, which came against Haryana. In his two matches for the state, he scored 42 runs at a batting average of 10.50, with a high score of 22. The following year in 1989, Jammu and Kashmir did not participate in the Ranji Trophy due to the political unrest.

In 1990, he left Kashmir for the United States of America to find a safer and a better life. Playing for the New York Eagles, a Caribbean-centred club, he led them to three championship's in the Commonwealth Cricket League, the largest league in America. In 1996, Khan moved to Northern California and continued his run scoring spree on the west coast as well. A prolific run scorer in American domestic Cricket for close to two decades, Khan holds the record high score for a batsman in North America when he scored 304* in a quarter final match for United Cricket Club against Berkeley Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association in 1999, although this match is not a major cricket match. He is one of only three players to have scored a triple century in any form of limited overs cricket. Amjad achieved another unique feat on September 30, 2012 when he scored the "Fastest century in US cricket history". in the final of the Eastern American Cricket Association's Twenty/20 Blitz. Playing the final at Baisley Park, in Richmond Hill, New York, Khan scored his century against Richmond Hill CC and it took him just 56 balls to reach the hundred that included 9 fours and 7 sixes.