Mukhtar Ahmed (born 20 December 1992) is a Pakistani
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er, who plays domestic cricket for
Southern Punjab South Punjab may refer to:
*the southern part of the region of Punjab in South Asia
*South Punjab (region), an historic region in the 8th–9th centuries; see Timeline of Pakistani history
*two proposed provinces in this region in Pakistan:
**Sara ...
.
Domestic career
He was the leading run-scorer for
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
in the
2018–19 Quaid-e-Azam One Day Cup
The 2018–19 Quaid-e-Azam One Day Cup was the first edition of the Quaid-e-Azam One Day Cup, a List A cricket tournament that took place in Pakistan from 6 September to 4 November 2018. Each match was played after the conclusion of the correspo ...
, with 434 runs in seven matches.
International career
He made his
Twenty20 International
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...
debut for Pakistan
against Bangladesh on 24 April 2015.
His first T20 international fifty came in his second match
against Zimbabwe in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
on 22 May 2015. For this innings he was named man of the match.
Two days later in the second match of two in the series, he once again scored a fifty and was named man of the match, and finally won the player of the series award as well.
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed, Mukhtar
1992 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Pakistan Twenty20 International cricketers
State Bank of Pakistan cricketers
Sialkot Stallions cricketers
Cricketers from Sialkot
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricketers
Comilla Victorians cricketers
Rawalpindi cricketers
Karachi Kings cricketers
Southern Punjab (Pakistan) cricketers