Zulfiqar Ahmed (Dutch cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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cricketer (1966-)
Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1966
Place of Birth: Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Zulfiqar Ahmed (Dutch cricketer)
- Zulfiqar Ahmed (Urdu: ???????? ?????; born 23 February 1966) is a former international cricketer who represented the Dutch national side between 1991 and 2002.
- He primarily played as a right-handed middle-order batsman, although he occasionally opened the batting. Ahmed was born in Sialkot, Pakistan, and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1987, joining his uncle and brother there.
- He joined the Schiedam-based Excelsior '20 club, and made his Hofdklasse debut in 1990.
- Ahmed made his national debut for the Netherlands in April 1991, on a tour of England.
- For the 1991 Hofdklasse season, he switched to the Voorburg Cricket Club, which he would play for throughout the rest of his international career.
- After his debut, Ahmed did not return to the national team until July 1995, when he represented the Netherlands in a quadrangular tournament in Scotland (also featuring the Danish and Scottish national teams.)In June 1996, Ahmed was selected for a NatWest Trophy fixture against Surrey, his first List A appearance.
- At the 1997 ICC Trophy in Malaysia, He played in six of his team's seven matches, but only had the opportunity to bat twice.
- He fared better at the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada, playing in seven out of ten matches and scoring 150 runs, ranking him fifth in runs for the Netherlands.
- Against Ireland, he scored 87 runs from 125 balls, which was his team's highest individual score of the tournament.
- In between ICC Trophy appearances, Ahmed had represented the Netherlands at the 2000 ICC Emerging Nations Challenge in Zimbabwe, scoring a maiden List-A half-century, 63 runs, against Zimbabwe A.
- He also played two more NatWest Trophy matches in that time, against Worcestershire in 1997 and Lincolnshire in 2000.
- Ahmed's last match for the national team came in September 2002, a C&G Trophy fixture against Bedfordshire.Ahmed is the father of triplets, Asad, Saqib, and Sikander Zulfiqar.
- His three sons have played together at underage levels for the Netherlands, with Sikander having graduated to the senior team.
- In 2017, Ahmed coached the Belgian national team at the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Europe Region Division One.
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