Parvaz Mirza, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetParvaz Mirza
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1970
Date of Death: 24-Sep-1995
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Parvaz Mirza
- Parvaz Mirza (Urdu: ????? ?????; 17 December 1970 – 24 September 1995) was an English first-class cricketer: a right-arm medium-pace bowler who also batted right-handed. Born in Birmingham, Mirza played two games for Warwickshire's second team in 1990 before appearing for Worcestershire's second team later that summer.
- For the next few years he made sporadic appearances at Second XI level, for Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Hampshire.
- He also played for Herefordshire in the 1993 MCC Trophy.
- In the 1994 season, by now a full-fledged Worcestershire player, Mirza broke through to make his first-class debut in the game against Oxford University and took 4-29 in the first innings.
- He also played in two County Championship games that season, as well as three List A matches, all in the AXA Equity and Law League. In 1995 Mirza was a fairly regular member of Worcestershire's one-day side, playing 15 times and taking 18 wickets in that form of the game at an average of 24.33; he was selected less often for in first-class matches, but still made six appearances.
- In the Championship match against Derbyshire in August he took his only five-wicket innings haul, returning figures of 5-110 in the first innings; he was also instrumental in saving the game for his county when he shared in an unlikely unbroken last-wicket partnership of 30 with Paul Thomas. Mirza played his final match against Glamorgan on 17 September, though poor weather meant that he did not bat or bowl.
- Exactly one week later, he died suddenly at his Birmingham home in his mother's arms.
- Worcestershire secretary Mike Vockins said, "We are devastated.
- The news has come as a complete bombshell".
- It was later revealed that Mirza had been suffering from a cardiac condition that had not been picked up by a check-up he had undergone shortly before his death. Parvaz's brother, Maneer Mirza, played ten games for Worcestershire in the 1997 season.
- he grew up in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, where he became good friends with Wasim Khan who also went on to become a professional cricketer.
- In Khan's biography he tells tales of boyhood memories of Parvaz, such as crafting a cricket bat out of a piece of wooden fencing and sneaking into Edgbaston to see international cricket games.
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