Hamid Ali Mazhar Shah (born 2 August 1992) is a Danish

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er who made his debut for the Danish national side in July 2010. He is a right-handed all-rounder bowling

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Career

Born in Brøndby, before making his senior debut for the national team, Shah played for Denmark at under-13, under-15, under-17, and under-19 level, as well as for Denmark A.Miscellaneous matches played by Hamid Shah
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 May 2015. His senior debut came in the 2010 European Cricket Championship Division One tournament in

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, with his highest score from three matches at the tournament being 37 from 81 balls against

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A. Against

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in the final of the 2011 Nordic Cup, a 20-over tournament hosted by Denmark, Shah topscored with 40 runs out of a team total of 107. Earlier in the tournament, against

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, he had been named

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after scoring 53

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and taking 2/18. At the 2011 European T20 Championship, beginning shortly after the Nordic Cup, he played in all seven matches, having little batting success but taking seven wickets from his 12 overs bowled. Shah had an outstanding 2012 season for Svanholm Kricketklub, his club side in the Danish Cricket League, and was named man of the match in four out of his fourteen matches. He finished fifth in the competition for runs scored (and second only to Zishan Shah for Svanholm), and was also his team's fourth-highest wicket taker (behind Sair Anjum,

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, and Henrik Hansen. Shah was consequently named in Denmark's squad for the 2012 World Cricket League Division Four tournament in Malaysia. He played only four matches there, but was Denmark's best bowler against both

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and

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, with figures of 2/35 and 3/41, respectively. Shah switched clubs for the 2013 domestic season, playing for

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instead of Svanholm. At the 2013 European T20 Championship, he took 10 wickets from seven games, with a best of 4/25 against

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. Denmark placed second to

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at the European T20 Championship, and subsequently qualified for the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates. Matches at the tournament had full

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status, and Shah made his Twenty20 debut in the opening match against Nepal. He topscored in that game with 18 from a team total of 79, and was also Denmark's leading rungetter against

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, where he made 31 from 30 balls. His only wickets of the tournament came against the

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in the 15th-place playoff, where he took 3/20 from his four overs. At Denmark's next major tournament after the World Twenty20 Qualifier, the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament in Singapore, Shah took only a single wicket, in the third-place playoff against Italy. However, he was still named player of the match, after an innings of 52 in a 92-run opening stand with

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. His sole wicket had been that of Michael Raso, which ended a 97-run partnership for the fifth wicket with

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. In March 2018, he was named as the captain of Denmark's squad for the

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tournament in Malaysia. In September 2018, he was again named captain of Denmark's squad, this time for the

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tournament in Oman. He was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 241 runs in five matches. In May 2019, he was named in Denmark's squad for a five-match series against

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in Ireland, in preparation for the

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of the

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tournament in Guernsey. The same month, he was named as captain of Denmark's squad for the Regional Finals qualification tournament. He made his

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(T20I) debut for Denmark, against

, on 16 June 2019. In August 2019, he was named as the captain of Denmark's squad for the

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tournament. He made his

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debut for Denmark, against

, in the Cricket World Cup Challenge League A tournament on 16 September 2019. He finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer for Denmark, with 191 runs in five matches.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shah, Hamid 1992 births Living people Danish cricketers Danish cricket captains Denmark Twenty20 International cricketers People from Brøndby Municipality Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark