Adnan "Sulehri" Ilyas (born December 30, 1984) is a Pakistani-born

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. He has previously played for the Oman Under-17s and now plays for the senior

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. In international youth cricket, Ilyas has made scores of 199

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U17 and 168 not out v

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U19s. Oman qualified for the

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, and Ilyas was selected in the squad, scoring a hundred in a warm-up win over

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. However, in six games as an opener in the main tournament, Ilyas made 49 runs in six innings as opener, and only when he was relegated to batting at number three against

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did he make 31. Ilyas remains in the side, and played three games during the

2006 ACC Trophy The 2006 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking place between 14 August and 26 August 2006. It gave associate and affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience in international one-day cricket. This was ...

, where Oman were knocked out at the group stage after a loss to

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in the final game. In the Bahrain game, Oman were set 284 and Ilyas scored 18 as opener, out of a total of 264. He made his

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debut for Oman against Hong Kong on 21 November 2015.

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Adnan Ilyas
at Cricinfo 1984 births Living people Omani cricketers Oman Twenty20 International cricketers People from Narowal District Pakistani emigrants to Oman Pakistani expatriates in Oman {{Oman-cricket-bio-stub