Mukhtar Ahmed (cricketer)

{{short description|Pakistani cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|12|20|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan

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| batting = Right-handed

| role = Opening batsman

| club1 = State Bank of Pakistan

| year1 = 2014

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| club2 = Southern Punjab

| year2 = 2019–2023

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| country = Pakistan

| internationalspan = 2015

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| T20Idebutdate = 24 April

| T20Idebutyear = 2015

| T20Idebutagainst = Bangladesh

| T20Icap = 61

| lastT20Idate = 1 August

| lastT20Iyear = 2015

| lastT20Iagainst = Sri Lanka

| columns = 3

| column1 = T20I

| matches1 = 6

| runs1 = 192

| bat avg1 = 32.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/2

| top score1 = 83

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| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

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| matches2 = 33

| runs2 = 1,449

| bat avg2 = 24.55

| 100s/50s2 = 3/5

| top score2 = 144

| deliveries2 = 634

| wickets2 = 5

| bowl avg2 = 74.40

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 1/3

| catches/stumpings2 = 23/–

| column3 = LA

| matches3 = 50

| runs3 = 1,957

| bat avg3 = 41.63

| 100s/50s3 = 5/8

| top score3 = 161

| deliveries3 = 512

| wickets3 = 15

| bowl avg3 = 32.86

| fivefor3 = 0

| tenfor3 = 0

| best bowling3 = 3/40

| catches/stumpings3 = 12/–

| date = 14 April 2022

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/556916.html Cricinfo

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Mukhtar Ahmed (born 20 December 1992) is a Pakistani-born cricketer who played for the Pakistan national cricket team in 2015 before retiring in 2023 to join Major League Cricket.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1764483|title=Major League Cricket: Pakistan stars, expats in focus as US set for first taste of T20 revolution|first=Brashna|last=Kasi|date=13 July 2023|website=DAWN.COM}}

Domestic career

He was the leading run-scorer for Rawalpindi in the 2018–19 Quaid-e-Azam One Day Cup, with 434 runs in seven matches.{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=12569;team=3105;type=tournament |title=Quaid-e-Azam One Day Cup, 2018/19 - Rawalpindi: Batting and bowling averages |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=24 October 2018}}

International career

He made his Twenty20 International debut for Pakistan against Bangladesh on 24 April 2015.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/858491.html |title=Pakistan tour of Bangladesh, Only T20I: Bangladesh v Pakistan at Dhaka, Apr 24, 2015 |access-date=24 April 2015 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} His first T20 international fifty came in his second match against Zimbabwe in Lahore on 22 May 2015. For this innings he was named man of the match.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/868723.html |title=Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan, 1st T20I: Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Lahore, May 22, 2015 |access-date=22 May 2015 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} Two days later in the second match of two in the series, he once again scored a fifty and was named man of the match, and finally won the player of the series award as well.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/868725.html |title=Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan, 2nd T20I: Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Lahore, May 24, 2015 |access-date=24 May 2015 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

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