Usman Afzaal is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i-born cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who has played three Test matches

Test cricket

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 for England

English cricket team

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, all against Australia

Australian cricket team

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 in 2001. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and occasional left arm slow bowler.

He started his first-class

First-class cricket

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 career with Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

, and was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award

NBC Denis Compton Award

The NBC Denis Compton Award is an annual award given to 'The Most Promising Young Player' at each of the 18 English first-class counties. A player may receive the award more than once.-History:...

 in 1996, but left the county after the 2003 season to play for Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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. Towards the end of 2007 season he left Northamptonshire and signed a three year contract with Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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.

Usman has launched his own national cricket academy for aspiring young cricketers.

Afzaal was briefly linked to Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 actress Amrita Arora

Amrita Arora

-Personal life and education:Arora was born in Chembur Mumbai to a Malayali mother, Joyce Polycarp, and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora. Her sister is Malaika Arora Khan....

. The pair have since split.

External links

• ACE Cricket Academy