Iqbal Sikander

Iqbal Sikander
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLegbreak, googly
Career statistics
Competition ODI
Matches 4
Runs scored 1
Batting average –
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 1*
Balls bowled 210
Wickets 3
Bowling average 49.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 1/30
Catches/stumpings 0/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  Pakistan
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 1992 Australia and New Zealand
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 3 May 2006

Mohammad Iqbal Sikander (born December 19, 1958, in Karachi, Sindh), is a former Pakistani cricketer who played four One Day Internationals (ODI), all of them in the 1992 Cricket World Cup and was part of the Pakistan squad that won it, but he was never selected again for Pakistan in either Tests or ODIs.

In January 1991, playing for Karachi Whites against Peshawar in a one-day match, he recorded the extraordinary bowling analysis of 6.2–3–7–7; no other cricketer has ever taken seven wickets in a List A game for the cost of fewer runs.[1]

Iqbal spent a lot of time in English league cricket, this included several seasons playing for Tonge Cricket Club in the Bolton Cricket League where he took a competition record 133 wickets in 1995.[2] In 2001, he took 101 league wickets for Leigh Cricket Club in the Liverpool Competition.[3]

Following his playing career, Iqbal worked as the Asian Cricket Council's development officer.[4] This role included helping to establish cricket in Afghanistan,[5] He had spells as coach of the Afghanistan national cricket team and Oman national cricket team.[6]

  1. ^ "List A Records - Best figures in an innings". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Players taking 100 wickets in a season". Bolton Cricket. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  3. ^ Williamson, Richard (13 April 2022). "Leigh are loving Angel instead". Daily Post (Liverpool). Retrieved 2 October 2023 – via Newsbank.
  4. ^ "Help at hand for Afghan cricket". ESPNcricinfo. 12 August 2003. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  5. ^ Richardson, Andy (7 April 2009). "Afghan coach keeps eye on the prize". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2 October 2023 – via Newsbank.
  6. ^ "Sikander likely to be back as national coach". Muscat Daily (Oman). 9 January 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2023 – via Newsbank.