| Shakoor Ahmed | |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Fullname: | Shakoor Ahmed Qureshi |
| Birth Date: | 15 September 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Kampala, Uganda |
| Death Place: | Lahore, Pakistan --> |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicketkeeper-batsman |
| Club1: | Punjab University |
| Year1: | 1947-48 to 1951-52 |
| Club2: | Punjab |
| Year2: | 1951-52 to 1957-58 |
| Club3: | Multan |
| Year3: | 1958-59 |
| Club4: | Lahore |
| Year4: | 1959-60 to 1967-68 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 55 |
| Runs1: | 3130 |
| Bat Avg1: | 37.26 |
| 100S/50S1: | 8/14 |
| Top Score1: | 280 |
| Deliveries1: | 12 |
| Wickets1: | 0 |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 56/17 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34219/34219.html Cricket Archive |
| Date: | 17 December |
| Year: | 2014 |
Shakoor Ahmed Qureshi (born 15 September 1928) was a Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1948 to 1968. He toured England in 1954 with the Pakistan team but did not play Test cricket.
A batsman who often opened, and also usually kept wicket, Shakoor Ahmed made his first-class debut in 1947-48 in the second first-class match to be played in the newly independent Pakistan, keeping wicket for Punjab University in the first of what became a regular fixture against the Punjab Governor's XI. He captained Punjab University in these matches in 1950-51 and 1951-52. He also played for Pakistan Universities in a two-day match against the touring MCC in 1951-52, scoring 104 not out in the second innings.
In his first match in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, the semi-final of the inaugural 1953-54 competition, he scored his first century, 102 for Punjab against Railways.[1] He was chosen as the reserve wicket-keeper for the 1954 tour of England,[2] but scored only 154 runs at an average of 14.00 in nine first-class matches. The wicketkeeper-batsman Imtiaz Ahmed played all four Tests.[3] In the 1954-55 season Shakoor Ahmed scored two centuries, including 116 not out in 38 overs against North-West Frontier Province.[4]
Ahmed also played cricket in his native Uganda and Kenya. In 1956-57 when a Kenya Asians team toured South Africa to play against non-white teams, he scored centuries in two of the three matches against the South African Non-Europeans XI.[5] When Punjab won the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the first time a few months later he scored 73 and 24 in the final.[6] He was the only player to score a century in the final in 1959-60 when Karachi beat his team, Lahore.[7]
Ahmed made his highest score in 1964-65 when he made 280 in nine and a half hours for Lahore Greens against Railways.[8] He captained the team in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final later that season; in the second innings, needing 369 to win, after Lahore Greens were 45 for 4 Ahmed made 150 not out, of an eventual total of 263.[9]