Six seasons of English club cricket. 314 wickets at an average of 14.20, striking every 22 balls. Ahmad Bashir is a fast, aggressive opening bowler playing for Khan Research Laboratories in Pakistan's First-Class competition, and one of the most reliable wicket-takers an English club can sign. He has done it in four different leagues, against different standards and in every kind of English weather, and the wickets have kept coming every time.
Ahmad is the kind of bowler batters fear facing. He runs in hard, hits the deck with genuine pace and has the aggression to make every spell feel like a battle. Add to that the ability to swing the new ball, and you have the most dangerous combination in club cricket. A strike rate of 22 tells you he does not bowl to contain. He bowls to take wickets, and he takes them quickly.
His English record is built on breadth as well as weight of numbers. He first came over in 2018 with South Wingfield CC and left a huge impression taking 74 wickets. He returned in 2022 with Wickersley Old Village CC in the South Yorkshire League, and then went back to South Wingfield for 2023 and 2024, where he took a further 117 wickets in those two years. In 2025 he took on the South Wales Premier League with Clydach CC, and in 2026 he stepped into the Birmingham Premier League with Attock CC. Across those six seasons he has averaged more than 50 wickets a summer, and an average of 14.20. Over 314 wickets is the mark of a bowler who wins matches.
That English success is backed by more than a decade of professional cricket in Pakistan. Ahmad made his first-class debut for Lahore Eagles in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in November 2014, went on to be named in Central Punjab's squads, and now spearheads the attack for Khan Research Laboratories. He has taken over 330 professional wickets across all formats in just over 130 matches, with first-class returns as good as 7/27 in an innings and 10/69 in a match. His form right now is as good as it has ever been. He has taken 21 wickets in five matches in this season's President's Trophy, with the second best average among the competition's top ten wicket-takers.
He also offers more than his bowling. Ahmad is a useful lower-order batter who has made three half-centuries in English club cricket, the sort of player who can add vital runs down the order when the game is tight.
Above all, Ahmad brings experience a club can rely on. He knows English conditions, he knows what is expected of an overseas professional and he has shown, year after year, that he delivers. For any club looking for a proven opening bowler who will lead the attack, take wickets from the first over and win games, Ahmad Bashir is a signing that speaks for itself.
