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Place of Birth: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About Mohammad Azharuddin
- Mohammad Azharuddin is an Indian politician, former cricketer who was the Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Moradabad.
- He was renowned as an elegant middle-order batsman and captain of the Indian cricket team in 47 tests and 174 one day matches during the 1990s.
- His international playing career came to an end when he was found to be involved in a match-fixing scandal in 2000 and subsequently banned by the BCCI for life.
- In 2012, the Andhra Pradesh High Court declared the life ban illegal.
- A division bench of the high court set aside the order of the City Civil Court, which had upheld the ban after Azharuddin had challenged it.
- But by then he was 49 years old and too old to get back on the pitch.
- He said he was happy the issue was over and done with, and he would not be taking any further legal action: "It was a long drawn out legal case and it was painful.
- We fought in the court for 11 years.
- Finally the verdict has come and I am happy that the ban has been lifted by the court.” "I am not going to take any legal action against any authority and I don't want to blame anybody for this also.
- Whatever had to happen has happened.
- I don't have any complaint." In 2009, Azharuddin was elected as a member of the Parliament from Moradabad on an Indian National Congress party ticket.In September 2019, Azharuddin elected as the President of Hyderabad Cricket Association.
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