Babu Meman
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| Full name | Mohammed Ahmed Meman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 June 1952 Lundazi, Northern Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 July 2025 (aged 73) Leicester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only ODI (cap 18) | 17 October 1987 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 28 January 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohammed Ahmed Meman (26 June 1952 – 2 July 2025) was a Zimbabwean cricketer. He played one One Day International for Zimbabwe in the 1987 World Cup.
Meman also represented Shropshire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1977 to 1980,[1] and played one match for Shropshire in the 1978 Gillette Cup, scoring 16 and taking 0/22 from ten overs against Surrey.[2] During those years, he appeared in 32 matches for the county, achieving a century in two of them, making 888 runs and taking 55 wickets.[3] At club level, he played for Pudsey St Lawrence in Yorkshire and Tonge.[4]
Meman died on 2 July 2025, at the age of 73 .[5]
References
- ^ "Minor County Championship matches played by Babu Meman". Cricket Archive. Cricket Archive. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ "Shropshire v Surrey Gillette Cup 1978 (1st Round)". Cricket Archive. Cricket Archive. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. p. 57. ISBN 1-902171-17-9.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
- ^ Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, p.36.
- ^ Former Zimbabwe spinner and team manager Meman dies at 73
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