Shozair Abbas Ali (born 28 December 1992) is an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er. Ali is a left-handed

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, th ...

who bowls right-arm

fast-medium Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners of pace bowling are usually known as ''fast'' bowlers, ''quicks'', or ''pacemen''. T ...

. He was born at

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

. Educated at

Queensbridge School Queensbridge School is a mixed, 11-16 comprehensive school in Moseley, West Midlands, England. It is judged an Outstanding School by Ofsted. Results in 2017 place it in top 10% schools nationally for P8 for low and high prior attainers. The sch ...

and Moseley Sixth Form College, Ali played cricket when he was fourteen years of age. He was quickly scouted from Warwickshire district trials and has represented Warwickshire since under-15 level age-group cricket. In January 2012, he toured Bangladesh with the England Under-19s, making his Youth

One Day International A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World Cup ...

(YODI) debut against Bangladesh Under-19s, with him making three further YODI appearances during the tour. He was selected later in the year in England's fifteen man squad for the

Under-19 Cricket World Cup The ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup is an international cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by national under-19 teams. First contested in 1988, as the Youth World Cup, it was not staged again u ...

in Australia. Prior to the tournament, England played a warm up quadrangular series against Australia,

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

and New Zealand Under-19s, with Ali playing in three matches. In the World Cup that followed, he made two appearances against

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

and Bangladesh Under-19s. Having played Second XI cricket since 2010, Ali made his full debut for

in their first first-class match of the 2013 season against

Oxford MCCU Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC), which represents the University of Oxford, has always held first-class status since 1827 when it made its debut in the inaugural University Match between OUCC and Cambridge University Cricket Club (CUCC). ...

at the

University Parks The Oxford University Parks, commonly referred to locally as the University Parks, or just The Parks, is a large parkland area slightly northeast of the city centre in Oxford, England. The park is bounded to the east by the River Cherwell, thoug ...

, scoring 10 runs in the match and taking the wickets of

Tom Fell Thomas Charles Fell (born 17 October 1993) is an English cricketer who plays for Worcestershire. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. Tom Fell was educated at Oakham School, where he was the highest run scorer in the scho ...

and

Charlie Ellison Charles Peter Ellison (born 26 January 1991) is an English former university cricketer. Ellison played four first-class cricket matches for Oxford MCCU between 2011 and 2013 as a right-arm seam bowler. He was born at Canterbury in Kent in 1991 ...

References

External links

Shozair Ali
at

ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Shozair 1992 births Living people Cricketers from Birmingham, West Midlands English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers British Asian cricketers