Abdul Azeem (10 June 1960 – 18 April 2023) was an Indian cricketer. He was the first player from the south zone and the seventh Indian to score a triple century in the

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(1986 versus Tamil Nadu). In a 15-year career for the

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, he scored more than 4000 runs in

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. In September 2014, Azeem was named coach of the Hyderabad cricket team along with

Noel David Noel Arthur David (born 26 February 1971) is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Hyderabad cricket team, Hyderabad and played four One Day Internationals for Indian cricket team, India in 1997. Early life When he was f ...

as Azeem's assistant while NS Ganesh as the fielding coach of the

. In November 2018, Azeem left the Jr. Selection panel of the Hyderabad Cricket Players Association saying procedures were not being followed selecting the squad. Azeem died from kidney failure on 18 April 2023, at the age of 62.

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