Syed Mohammad Shoaib Ahmed (born 19 November 1987), is a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler from Hyderabad city of India. He is also known as Shoaib Maqsusi.

Ahmed started his first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 career with a match against Bengal at Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 during Nov 4-7 2007.

His major career break came up when Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers known in short as DC or 'Chargers' is a cricket franchise that represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League...

 took him in IPL season-2 and he debuted against Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings is a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu that plays in the Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008, the team is currently captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming, a former New Zealand cricketer. The team's home ground is the M. A...

 at Durban, South Africa

Durban

Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

on April 27, 2009.