Riaz Husein Poonawala (born 8 May 1961) is an Indian-born

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er who played for the

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. Poonawala started his

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career playing for his native

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for whom he played 28 games between 1982–83 and 1987–88. He later emigrated to the

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for whom he played in the

1994 ICC Trophy The 1994 ICC Trophy (formally the ABN AMRO ICC Trophy) was a cricket tournament that took place in Kenya between 12 February and 6 March 1994. It was the fifth ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, and acted as the Cricket World Cup qualification ...

. Poonawala also competed in two

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s in the 1994 Pepsi Austral-Asia Cup.

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* 1961 births Living people Indian cricketers Indian Muslims Maharashtra cricketers Emirati cricketers United Arab Emirates One Day International cricketers Emirati cricket captains Indian emigrants to the United Arab Emirates Indian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates West Zone cricketers Dawoodi Bohras Cricketers from Pune Gujarati people {{UnitedArabEmirates-cricket-bio-stub