Abdul Hafeez

Who is Abdul Hafeez?

Abdul Hafeez is a former English cricketer: an opening batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler who had a brief county cricket career with Worcestershire. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham.

He played a number of games for Warwickshire's Second XI in 1996 and 1997, but moved to Worcestershire to make his first-class debut in April 1998 against Essex, scoring 15 in his only innings. He played a further nine first-class games that season, making a career-best 55 in a five-wicket win over Gloucestershire in July. In one-day games, he played seven matches, with a top score of 33 against Scotland.

In 1999, Hafeez had fewer opportunities, playing only four first-class matches, and he failed to make the most of them, with a top score of only 32 and a desperate batting average of 5.37. He also played a solitary List A game, making 8 not out. After leaving the county at the end of that season, he had one game for Shropshire, against Ireland in the 2000 NatWest Trophy, but made only 4.

He then played for several years for the recreational Worcestershire Cricket Board team, making several appearances in the NatWest Trophy's replacement, the C&G Trophy, including a game against the professional Worcestershire side in May 2003. It was in one of these Trophy matches, against Sussex Cricket Board in September 2002, that Hafeez took his only List A wicket, that of opposing captain Paul Stevens.