deliveries columns catches/stumpings family year birth_date bowling tenfor country club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column nickname role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 847 142 2 310/1 121/3 jamil hassan -lrb- son -rrb- 1966-1985 2010 24 march 1944 right-arm medium & ndash ; & ndash ; kenya nottinghamshire & ndash ; & ndash ; right-handed sheikh basharat hassan nairobi , kenya fc la basher occasional wicketkeeper http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/23986.html cricinfo 1944 3 24 yes 14,394 6,842 6 5 15/83 4/36 332 285 basher hassan

basher hassan

sheikh basharat hassan -lrb- born march 24 , 1944 -rrb- , in nairobi , kenya , was a kenyan first class cricketer who played for nottinghamshire from 1966 to 1985 .
a right-handed batsman , he made 14,394 runs at an average of 29.07 .
after playing club cricket in kenya , hassan made his first-class debut for an east african invitation xi against the marylebone cricket club in 1963 .
he moved to england and made his debut for nottinghamshire in 1966 against oxford university whilst serving the then mandatory period of qualification .
having made 579 runs in 1967 he was forced to sit out the 1968 season when gary sobers was engaged .
initially a wicketkeeper , he developed as an opening batsman although he occasionally kept wicket in list a cricket .
he was a notable fieldsman ; in 1971 `` wisden '' said that `` his brilliance in the covers stamped him as one of the outstanding men in this position in the country '' and that his team-mates were `` fired by the example of the enthusiastic hassan '' .
he became a regular member of the nottinghamshire first team in 1969 and scored 1,000 runs in a season on five occasions and scored fifteen centuries .
his highest score was 182 not out against gloucestershire in 1977 .
in list a matches his highest was 120 not out against warwickshire in 1981 .
he was 12th man for england in a test in 1985 at trent bridge during the ashes series after which he retired from county cricket .
he was for some years the nottinghamshire development manager .
