Nadeem Abbasi
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Nadeem Ahmed Abbasi is a former Pakistan
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er who played in three Tests
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 in 1989.

He also captained Khan Research Laboratories and Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi cricket team
Rawalpindi cricket team are a first-class cricket side which compete in Pakistani domestic cricket.- Players :* It has following notable players*Shoaib Akhtar*Sohail Tanvir*Yasir Arafat*Kamran Sheeraz-External links:*...

. During this tenure, he led KRL to a runners-up spot in the National One Day Cup in 2000. After retirement, he become a very successful Rawalpindi Coach and Regional Selector, as well as working in the Pakistan National Cricket Academy and Abbottabad Region, grooming players, who later played for Pakistan.

Abbasi is now a freelance journalist and appears regularly alongside former BBC Asian Network
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BBC Asian Network is a British radio station serving those originating from and around the Indian subcontinent. The music and news comes out of the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. The station has production centres in Birmingham, Leicester and London...

and now Radio 5 Live's, Adil Ray and Nihal, as a pundit and writes for several newspapers, as well as TV.

During the UK cricket season, he has been known to turn out as a guest professional for several teams and provides batting consultancy and specialist coaching to many past, present and potential future Pakistani players.
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