Athar Laeeq Khan (born 10 February 1971) is a former

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er who played 112 matches of

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for several teams in Pakistan from 1989 to 2003. Athar Laeeq was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and useful tail-end batsman. He played most of his career with Karachi teams and

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, with a few matches for Dadu at the end of his career. He represented Pakistan at under-19 level, and toured Zimbabwe with Pakistan B in 1990 and Sri Lanka with

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in 1991, but never played for the full Pakistan team. Laeeq twice took eight wickets in an innings, with best figures of 8 for 51 for

Karachi Whites Karachi cricket teams competed in the Pakistani first-class cricket tournaments the Patron's Trophy and Quaid-e-Azam Trophy from 1953-54 to 2018-19. Beginning with the 2019-20 season, the city of Karachi has been represented in the Quaid-e-Azam Tr ...

against

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in 1998–99. He took 3 for 34 and 8 for 65 for

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against Rawalpindi A in 1994–95. His best match figures were 11 for 57 (6 for 18 and 5 for 39) for National Bank of Pakistan against

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in 1999–00. He made his career top score of 99 in a semi-final of

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in 1995–96, when he and

Asif Mujtaba Mohammad Asif Mujtaba (Urdu: آصف مجتبیٰ, born 4 November 1967) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 25 Test matches and 66 One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1997. During the, 1994–95 period he briefly ser ...

added 185 in 187 minutes for the ninth wicket for Karachi Blues against

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. He also took four wickets in the first innings. In the final a week later he top-scored with 46 in Karachi Blues' first innings and took seven wickets in the match as Karachi Blues beat Karachi Whites by 59 runs after trailing on the first innings by 116 runs. His brother

Arshad Laeeq Arshad Laeeq (born 28 November 1970), also sometimes known as Arshad Laiq is a former Pakistani-born cricketer who played for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team. He played two first-class cricket games for Pakistan Steel in 1986–87 a ...

represented the

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