Tariq Aziz (born 9 September 1974) is a Pakistani

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er who plays for the Portugal cricket team. He played five first-class matches for

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in the 1999/00 season. In August 2018, he represented Portugal in Group A of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier tournament. In Portugal's second match, against

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, he was named as the player of the match, after taking three wickets and scoring 48 runs. He finished as the leading run-scorer for the team in the qualifier, with 99 runs from four matches. In October 2019, he was named in Portugal's

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(T20I) squad for the

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tournament. He made his

(T20I) debut for Portugal, against

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, on 25 October 2019.

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* 1974 births Living people Pakistani cricketers Hyderabad (Pakistan) cricketers Portuguese cricketers Portugal Twenty20 International cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-cricket-bio-1970s-stub