Ateeq Javid (born 15 October 1991) is a former English cricketer. He started his cricket career at Aston Manor CC where he was picked up for

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. He played club cricket for West Bromwich Dartmouth in the Birmingham Premier League when he moved on from Aston Manor. He is a right-handed batsman and a right arm

off spin Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right arm, right-handed spin bowling, spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal Delivery (cr ...

bowler. He made his debut for the county in June 2009 against

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. Ateeq went to Aston Manor Academy along with professional footballer

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, cricketer

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and MMA fighter

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. In September 2017, it was announced that Javid would leave Warwickshire at the end of the season to join

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on a two-year contract ahead of the 2018 season. An opportunity to open against Durham brought his only half-century of the season in 10 attempts in 2018, and he was released at the end of the 2019 season.

Awards and nominations

In January 2015, Javid was nominated for the Best at Sport award at the

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Anti-Semitism

In November 2021 Javid was revealed to have exchanged a series of anti-Semitic posts with former England Under 19 team-mate

Azeem Rafiq Azeem Rafiq ( ur, عظیم رفیق; born 27 February 1991) is a British Asian cricketer who played professionally in England for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right arm off-spin bowler, Rafiq played for the county between 2008 and 2014 and 20 ...

on Facebook in 2011.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Javid, Ateeq 1991 births Living people English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Cricketers from Birmingham, West Midlands British Asian cricketers English cricketers of the 21st century