Abid Ali Kazi (Urdu: عابد علی قاضی), born in Karachi, Pakistan on 20 July 1961, is a cricket statistician and

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. His involvement with the game of

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dates back to the mid-1970s. Realizing that his cricket playing abilities would not take him to the highest level, he focused on writing, statistical analysis and research. He has hands-on experience in the non-playing aspects of the game, including editorial contribution, archives, statistics, history, scoring, organizing, publishing and sponsoring. Abid Ali Kazi's major contribution to cricket is compiling the history of Pakistan's domestic cricket. He collected, corrected and published scorecards of

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played in Pakistan which remained largely undocumented till the 1990s. Kazi's efforts appear as five volumes in the series ''First-Class Cricket in Pakistan'', which covers the period 1947–48 to 1974–75. He was declared Statistician of the Year by the

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in 2004. Kazi co-founded the Pakistan Association of Cricket Statisticians and Scorers with the late

Gul Hameed Bhatti Gul Hameed Bhatti (1947 – 4 February 2010) was a Pakistani journalist, editor and a leading sports writer. Known as Pakistan's "Encyclopaedia of Cricket", Bhatti wrote for ''The Cricketer'', published from Karachi.

in 1983. He has been the Pakistan correspondent of ''

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'' since 1987. Besides appearing on different TV channels as cricket expert, he co-hosted a popular weekly cricket show
The Blazing Strokes
on

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in 2007. Abid Kazi was Managing Editor and Publisher of '' The Cricketer International'', Asian Edition from March 1990 to February 1995. He has written on cricket extensively in national and international publications and has authored a number of books on the statistical history of Pakistan cricket. He served as the General Manager Marketing of the

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in 2001–02.

References

External links

"The man who has delivered Pakistan cricket's Holy Grail" by Sohaib Alvi

Interview with Abid Ali Kazi
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