Shariz Ahmad (born 21 April 2003) is a Dutch

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er. He has played for the

Netherlands national cricket team The Netherlands national cricket team (Dutch: Nederlandse cricket team) is the men's team that represents the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is administered by the Royal Dutch Cricket Association. Cricket has been played in the Netherlands sin ...

since 2022. He is a right-arm

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bowler.

Personal life

Ahmad was born in

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on 21 April 2003. He the younger brother of fellow Netherlands international

Musa Ahmed Musa Nadeem Ahmed (born 10 December 1997) is a Dutch cricketer. In October 2020, he was part of the Dutch Academy squad. In May 2021, he was named in the Netherlands A team for their tour of Ireland to play the Ireland Wolves. He made his List ...

. Their father Nadeem Ahmad played top-level club cricket in the Netherlands after immigrating from

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, Pakistan. He and his sons played for Groen en Wit CC in Amsterdam.

Junior career

In October 2020, Ahmad was named in the Dutch academy squad, following his performances at the under-18 level. The following September, he was part of the Dutch squad for the under-19 qualification matches in the Europe group for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He was also the leading wicket-taker for the Netherlands in the group.

International career

In February 2022, Ahmad earned his maiden senior international call-up, after being named in the Dutch

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squads for their tour of New Zealand. In May 2022, he was named in the Dutch One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against the West Indies. He made his ODI debut on 2 June 2022, against the

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. In July 2022, he was named in the Netherlands'

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(T20I) squad for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier B tournament in Zimbabwe. He made his T20I debut on 11 July 2022, for the Netherlands against

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. He was the Netherlands' best bowler in the 1st T20I against New Zealand, taking 2/15. In March 2023, he was named in the Netherlands' ODI squad for their series against Zimbabwe. In the second ODI, on 23 March 2023, he took his maiden five-wicket haul in international cricket.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmad, Shariz 2003 births Living people Dutch cricketers Netherlands Twenty20 International cricketers Netherlands One Day International cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Dutch people Dutch people of Pakistani descent Sportspeople from Amsterdam