Abbas Ali Baig is a former India

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er who played in 10 Tests

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 from 1959 to 1966.

He was named one of Indian Cricket

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's five Cricketers of the Year for 1959/60.

He holds the record for the most runs scored in a first-class

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 match for Oxford University

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: playing against Free Foresters

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 at The University Parks in 1959, he scored 221 not out

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 in the first innings and 87 in the second for a total of 308.

His brothers Mazhar Baig and Murtuza Baig both played first-class cricket for Hyderabad.