Hamid Shah


Hamid Ali Mazhar Shah is a Danish cricketer, who plays for Denmark's national cricket team. He made his debut for the Danish national side in July 2010. He is a right-handed all-rounder who bowls off spin.

Career

Born in Brøndby, before making his senior debut for the national team, Shah played for Denmark at the under-13, under-15, under-17, and under-19 levels, as well as for Denmark A. His senior debut came in the 2010 European Cricket Championship Division One tournament in Jersey, with his highest score from three matches at the tournament being 37 from 81 balls against Scotland A. Against Norway in the final of the 2011 Nordic Cup, a 20-over tournament hosted by Denmark, Shah topscored with 40 runs out of a team total of 107. Earlier in the tournament, against Finland, he was named man of the match for scoring 53 not out and taking 2/18. At the 2011 European T20 Championship, beginning shortly after the Nordic Cup, he played in all seven matches, having little batting success but taking seven wickets in 12 overs.
Shah had an outstanding 2012 season for Svanholm Kricketklub, his club side in the Danish Cricket League, and was named man of the match in four out of his 14 matches. He finished fifth in the competition in terms of runs scored, and was also his team's fourth-highest wicket-taker debut, against Jersey, on 16 June 2019.
In August 2019, Shah was named as the captain of Denmark's squad for the 2019 Malaysia Cricket World Cup Challenge League A tournament. He made his List A debut, against Malaysia, in the Cricket World Cup Challenge League A tournament on 16 September 2019. He finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer for Denmark, with 191 runs in five matches.
On 8 May 2022, he became the second player to be dismissed on 99 in a T20I when he was run out off the final ball of Denmark's innings against Finland.
Shah scored his maiden List A century against Canada at Maple Leaf Cricket Club on 5 August 2022, making 138 off 133 balls.
On 21 August 2024, Shah made his first T20I century, compiling exactly 100 off 58 balls in Denmark's opening T20 World Cup European sub-regional qualification tournament group match against the Czech Republic at King George V Sports Ground, Castel in Guernsey. He went on to be named player of the tournament after scoring 294 runs across five matches as Denmark finished runners-up.