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Ahsan-ul-Haq (16 July 1878 – died 29 December 1957) was an Indian cricketer. He was a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium fast bowler.

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Ahsan-ul-Haq

Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 7 Runs scored 172 Batting average 21.50 100s/50s 1/0 Top score 100* Balls bowled 90 Wickets 0 Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 4/–
Source: CricketArchive, 30 October 2022

Ahsan-ul-Haq went to England to study law where he played for Hampstead in club cricket. In June 1901, Haq scored 135 for Middlesex Second XI against Sussex Second XI.[1] In the next year, he played three first-class matches for Middlesex. But his official work restricted his appearances and he soon returned to India.^{[citation needed]}

At the age of 45 he captained the Muslims in the Lahore tournament of 1924. On what was his first appearance in a first-class match on Indian soil, he went in last against Sikhs and scored 100 not out in 40 minutes, adding 150 in an unbroken tenth-wicket partnership with Abdus Salaam. Excluding centuries made under contrived circumstances, it is the second-fastest hundred (in terms of minutes) ever made in first-class cricket.^{[citation needed]}

Haq was later involved in the creation of the Indian cricket board.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Mohandas Menon, Indians in English county and university cricket, ACSSI Cricket Yearbook, 1990–91

External links

• Ahsan-ul-Haq at ESPNcricinfo

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