Who Is Zaman Akhter, Cambridge-Born Medium-Pacer Dismisses Karun Nair On 204

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Last Updated:May 31, 2025, 17:21 IST

Karun Nair's elegant 204-run sound was ended by Zaman Akhter, a rising endowment from Gloucestershire, successful the archetypal 'Unofficial' Test against England Lions.

Zaman Akhter ended Karun Nair's 204-run sound (Picture credit: Instagram @gloucestershire_cricket)

Star India batter Karun Nair’s stupendous 204-run sound came to an extremity soon aft bringing up different milestone, arsenic helium was dismissed by Zaman Akhter, a 26-year-old medium-pacer from Cambridge who presently represents Gloucestershire, too chap accelerated bowler with Indian origins, Ajeet Singh Dale. 

Born successful April 1999 successful Cambridge, Zaman is regarded arsenic an emerging endowment of England cricket and is an established subordinate of the England Lions set-up.

Zaman started his cricketing travel with the Oxford UCCE Program and made his first-class debut six years backmost successful the Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches against Middlesex. Although helium couldn’t prime immoderate wickets, helium was rather economical.

Zaman honed his skills playing insignificant counties cricket for Cambridge and Hertfordshire earlier bagging the attraction of Essex’s Second XI successful 2022.

In March 2023, Gloucestershire signed Zaman aft his superb performances astatine the South Asian Cricket Academy.

Zaman debuted for the squad against Durham successful May 2023 and showed his bowling prowess. He took 4/33 successful a crippled against Leicestershire successful June that twelvemonth and bagged his maiden five-for successful April past twelvemonth during the archetypal lucifer of the County Championship against Yorkshire.

Zaman’s accordant performances earned him a spot successful the England Lions squad for a crippled against Sri Lanka past August, wherever helium bagged a five-wicket haul successful a standout show.

Zaman made his List A debut successful August 2023 against Derbyshire and picked up 3 wickets, including Pakistan batter Haider Ali.

Zaman picked up 5 wickets successful Gloucestershire’s County Championship Division Two lucifer against Glamorgan past month, which included Netherlands’ seasoned medium-pacer Timm van der Gugten and Sri Lanka pacer Asitha Fernando.

Meanwhile, Nair was elegance personified portion serving a reminder to the Gautam Gambhir-led squad absorption with a classy 204 arsenic India A cruised past 500 against a below-par England Lions connected the 2nd time of the archetypal ‘Unofficial’ Test successful Canterbury connected Saturday, May 31.

While Nair is known to bat either astatine No. 4 oregon beneath successful first-class cricket, helium looked astatine easiness during his innings, which made the Lions bowlers, including their Test prima Rehan Ahmed, look pedestrian, earlier Zaman enactment an extremity to it.

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