Zahir Iqbal Alam (10 April 1970 – 30 May 2012) was an Indian

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er who played for Assam cricket team from 1988 to 1995.Zahir Alam
CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 February 2024. He was born in Gauhati,

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. He was a prolific right-handed batsman. Alam appeared in 22 first class matches, scored 1,398 runs with an average of 36.78 and his highest score was 257. He also scripted a world record second-wicket partnership of 475 runs with former India Test player

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in a

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match in 1990–91. Alam died in a Bangalore hospital on 30 May 2012 at the age of 42. He was suffering from a liver ailment.

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1970 births Indian cricketers Assam cricketers Cricketers from Guwahati 2012 deaths Deaths from liver disease {{India-cricket-bio-stub