Mukhtar Ahmed (born 20 December 1992) is a Pakistani-born cricketer who played for the

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in 2015 before retiring in 2023 to join

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Domestic career

He was the leading run-scorer for

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in the

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, with 434 runs in seven matches.

International career

He made his

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debut for Pakistan against Bangladesh on 24 April 2015. His first T20 international fifty came in his second match against Zimbabwe in

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on 22 May 2015. For this innings he was named man of the match. 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.

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