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Full name Mohammad Saif
Born July 21, 1976, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Current age 32 years 84 days
Major teams Madhya Pradesh,Uttar Pradesh
Also known as Saifu
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Relations Father - M Tarif,Brother - M Kaif
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
Ct
St
First-class
39
53
10
1290
124*
30.00
2
6
18
0
List A
32
27
7
498
87*
24.90
0
1
12
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
39
2190
1109
27
3/34
41.07
3.03
81.1
0
0
List A
32
587
488
13
3/45
3/45
37.53
4.98
45.1
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1994/95 - 2003/04
List A span
1994/95 - 2005/06
Profile
Mohammad Saif was born into a cricketing family and has a love of the game
that has taken him from Allahabad to Ontario. His father, Mohammad Tarif,
played at first-class level for almost 19 years, and his younger brother is
Indian Test batsman Mohammad Kaif. He is a down-to-earth man who played a
big role in encouraging his clearly more talented sibling into the
international arena and now he hopes that his enthusiasm and dedication can
inspire club cricketers in Canada to new levels.
Still only 30, he arrived at Waterloo Sunrise Cricket Club and joined straight into practice after travelling for more than 24 hours, then went for a 5 km run after the
session was over. He went on to score a century in his first game for the
club.
Saif is a powerful allrounder who played at Under-19 level for India in the
late 1990's and has played alongside International stars such as Ashish
Nehra, Gautam Gambhir, and Virendra Sehwag and against players of the
calibre of Brett Lee and Mike Hussey. His medium pace bowling was often
relied upon to pick up useful wickets but batting is his stronger suit, one
such example being when he smashed 56 from just 19 balls in the quarter
final of one of India's domestic cup competitions.
