Bashir Haider

{{Short description|Pakistani cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Bashir Haider

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| country = Pakistan

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|12|30|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Sheikhupura, Punjab Province, British India

| death_date =

| death_place =

| family = Ahmed Bashir (grandson)

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium

| club1 = Pakistan Railways

| year1 = 1963-64 to 1970-71

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 39

| runs1 = 705

| bat avg1 = 16.02

| 100s/50s1 = 0/3

| top score1 = 78

| deliveries1 = 4705

| wickets1 = 78

| bowl avg1 = 28.15

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 5/76

| catches/stumpings1= 16/–

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/bashir-haider-40010 Cricinfo

| date = 26 February

| year = 2022

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Bashir Haider (born 30 December 1940) is a former Pakistani cricketer. A fast-medium bowler for the Pakistan Railways team, he played first-class cricket from 1960 to 1971.{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41947/41947.html| title = Bashir Haider| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =26 February 2022}}

Haider was one of the fastest bowlers in Pakistan in his time, but was inaccurate. He captained Pakistan Railways in the Ayub Trophy in 1964–65 when they inflicted the heaviest defeat in first-class cricket history: by an innings and 851 runs over Dera Ismail Khan.Richard Heller and Peter Oborne, White on Green: Celebrating the Drama of Pakistan Cricket, Simon & Schuster, London, 2016, pp. 112–18. His best first-class figures were 5 for 76 against Lahore in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1968–69.{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29809.html| title = Lahore v Railways 1968-69| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =26 February 2022}}

His grandson Ahmed Bashir is also a first-class cricketer in Pakistan.{{cite news| work=Cricky Updates | first=Usama |last=Thebo |access-date=26 February 2022| title=Ahmed Bashir, grandson of former first-class cricketer Bashir Haider, is also keen …|url=https://www.crickyupdates.com/ahmed-bashir-grandson-of-basheer-ahmed|date=13 October 2020}}