Saif Ali Zaib (born 22 May 1998) is an English

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 for

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northa ...

. A spin-bowling all-rounder, Zaib is a left-handed batsman, who bowls

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. He made his

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debut for the county against the touring New Zealand A cricket team in July 2014, and his first-class debut the following August. Ahead of the 2015 season, Zaib signed a three-year contract with Northamptonshire. He made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Northamptonshire in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 27 July 2017.

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* * 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from High Wycombe People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Buckinghamshire cricketers Cricketers from Buckinghamshire {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub