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About Masood Akhtar
- Syed Masood Akhtar (born 18 August 1946) is a former international cricketer who represented the American national side between 1979 and 1982.
- He was born in present-day India, and played first-class cricket in Pakistan before emigrating to the United States. Akhtar was born in Delhi, but moved to Pakistan after partition.
- He made his first-class debut in March 1962, aged 15, playing for the Pakistan Education Board in the Ayub Trophy.
- His Quaid-i-Azam Trophy came in December of the same year, when he played a single match for Karachi B.
- Playing for Karachi during the 1964–65 season, Akhtar made a maiden first-class century, scoring 112 runs against Karachi University in the Ayub Trophy.
- In the tournament's final, against the Lahore Education Board, he scored another century, 116 runs, from eighth in the batting order.
- One of his opponents in that game was Kamran Rasheed, who was later his teammate on the U.S.
- national team.
- Later in the 1964–65 season, in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, Akhtar added a third century, scoring 113 for the Karachi Blues against Bahawalpur.In March 1968, Akhtar appeared twice against the Commonwealth XI team that was touring Pakistan at the time – once for Central Zone and once for Pakistan Universities.
- Over the next few seasons, he also made appearances for the Public Works Department and Pakistan International Airlines B, with his last first-class appearance coming in March 1972.
- After emigrating to the U.S., Akhtar made his debut for the national team at the 1979 ICC Trophy in England.
- He played only a single match at the tournament, however, scoring five runs and taking 1/33 against Wales.
- Akhtar was also included in the American squad for the 1982 ICC Trophy, but again played only a single game, against Gibraltar.
- He conceded two runs from his only over, with the match being washed out after 18 overs of play.
- Akhtar remained involved in American cricket after his retirement from playing, serving as a physiotherapist for the national team and on the board of the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA), including briefly as president.
- He was inducted into the U.S.
- Cricket Hall of Fame in 2010.
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