Zahid Sadiq (born May 6, 1965) was a Kenyan

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er. He was a right-handed batsman who played for

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from 1988 to 1989 and for

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in 1990. Sadiq played initially for Surrey. He had to be registered specifically for a single game for Derbyshire in the 1990 season, though he had officially been offered a contract for 1991. He signed for Surrey in 1993 but again, did not have much success with bat or ball. In 2001, he appeared for

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in a tour of Namibia. Sadiq's cousin,

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, is a former

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er. Sadiq was an upper-middle-order batsman.

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