Imran Haniff Jan (born 11 February 1979) is a former

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cricketer who played for

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in West Indian domestic cricket. He was an

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who bowled right-arm

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and batted left-handed.

Early life and career

Jan and his twin brother,

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, were born in the village of Mafeking, in Trinidad's Mayaro district. He made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in January 2000, playing against

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in the 1999–00 Busta Cup. Jan had his breakout season during the

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, scoring 528 runs from seven matches to finish as his team's leading run-scorer (and fourth in the competition). Opening the batting with Andy Jackson against West Indies B, he scored what was to be his only first-class century, 110 runs from 199 balls. Jan scored 563 runs from eight matches in the 2002–03 Busta Cup, the seventh-most in the competition and behind only

Daren Ganga Daren Ganga (born 14 January 1979) is a former Trinidadian cricketer. He was a right-handed top order batsman and part-time right-arm off spinner. He was named the 2006 West Indies Players' Association 'Test player of the year', Ganga captaine ...

for Trinidad and Tobago. As a bowler, his best performance came in the 2004–05 Regional One-Day Competition, where he took 13 wickets from seven matches to finish as the competition's leading wicket-taker. On 21 August 2021, he was appointed as the head coach of

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for the 2021 Caribbean Premier League, as

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was unavailable for the season.

References

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