Ismail "Baboo" Ebrahim (5 November 1946 – 18 July 2020) was a South African
cricket
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er.
A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, Ebrahim played 48
first-class matches and two
List A
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matches, mostly for Natal, between 1971 and 1984. He played in the
Dadabhay Trophy tournament for non-white cricketers until the 1977–78 season, when he represented Natal B in the
Castle Bowl, the second division of "white" first-class cricket, and would go on to play in the Currie Cup in the 1978–79 season.
In addition to playing in the previously exclusively white Currie Cup, Ebrahim was one of several non-white cricketers to join white cricket clubs in the 1970s in spite of the
apartheid
Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
laws that existed during his cricket career.
He also represented Radcliffe in the
Central Lancashire Cricket League
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for one season.
Ebrahim was selected to play for the South African Invitational XI against the
International Wanderers in 1976. He returned match figures of 6 for 66, and claimed the wickets of
Greg Chappell
Gregory Stephen Chappell (born 7 August 1948) is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI). The second of three brothers to play Test cricket, Chappell was the pre-eminent ...
and
Mike Denness
Michael Henry Denness (1 December 1940 – 19 April 2013) was a Scottish cricketer who played for England national cricket team, England, Scotland national cricket team, Scotland, Kent County Cricket Club, Kent and Essex County Cricket Club, Es ...
. He later represented South Africa in Masters cricket events.
Ebrahim died in Durban on 18 July 2020.
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1946 births
2020 deaths
South African cricketers
KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
Cricketers from Durban