Amjad Khan Age, Wikipedia, Family, Height, Net Worth & Biography

In 1990, he left Kashmir for the United States of America to find a safer and a better life. Playing for the New York Eagles, a Caribbean-centred club, he led them to three championship’s in the Commonwealth Cricket League, the largest league in America. In 1996, Khan moved to Northern California and continued his run scoring spree on the west coast as well. A prolific run scorer in American domestic Cricket for close to two decades, Khan holds the record high score for a batsman in North America when he scored 304* in a quarter final match for United Cricket Club against Berkeley Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association in 1999, although this match is not a senior match. He is one of only three players to have scored a triple century in any form of limited overs cricket. Amjad achieved another unique feat on 30 September 2012 when he scored the “Fastest century in US cricket history”. in the final of the Eastern American Cricket Association’s Twenty/20 Blitz. Playing the final at Baisley Park, in Richmond Hill, New York, Khan scored his century against Richmond Hill CC and it took him just 56 balls to reach the hundred that included 9 fours and 7 siKhan never played for the USA again and paid the price for his outspoken and open criticism of the current United States of America Cricket Association administration, led by Gladstone Dainty. In January 2010, he again criticised the United States of America Cricket Association and its president Gladstone Dainty on cricket website Cricinfo.He was selected to play for the United States in the 2000/01 Red Stripe Bowl. The matches in this competition had List A status, as such his List A debut came against Jamaica. He played three further List A matches in the tournament, the last of which came against Trinidad and Tobago. In his four List A matches for the United States, Khan scored 61 runs at an average of 15.25, with a high score of 36. He took a single wicket with the ball at a bowling average of 50 and best figures of 1/45. His final match for the United States came in a Man of the Match performance in the 2002 ICC Americas Championship against Bermuda that was played in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Khan made his first-class debut for Jammu and Kashmir in the 1988/89 Ranji Trophy against Delhi. He made one further first-class appearance for the state that season, which came against Haryana. In his two matches for the state, he scored 42 runs at a batting average of 10.50, with a high score of 22. The following year in 1989, Jammu and Kashmir did not participate in the Ranji Trophy due to the political unrest.Amjad Khan (born 21 August 1966) is a Kashmiri-born-American former cricketer. Khan was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast and who could occasionally field as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.Before Amjad Khan came to films he was a theatre actor. His first role was in the film Nazneen (1951). His next role was at the age of 17 in the film Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957). He made appearances in minor roles with father Jayant in a few films. He assisted K. Asif in Love And God in the late 1960s and had a brief appearance in the film. The film was left incomplete after Asif's death in 1971, and it ended up releasing in 1986. In 1973 he made his debut as an adult in Hindustan Ki Kasam.

In 1975 he was offered the role of dacoit Gabbar Singh for the film Sholay by Salim Khan who was one of its writers. In preparation for the role, Amjad read Abhishapth Chambal, a book on Chambal dacoits written by Taroon Kumar Bhaduri (actress Jaya Bhaduri's father). Amjad shot to stardom with the movie. His portrayal of Gabbar Singh is considered by many to be the first depiction of pure evil in Indian Cinema. His mannerisms and dialogues have become an integral part of Bollywood lexicon and spawned numerous parodies and spoofs. Sholay went on to become a blockbuster. Although it boasted an ensemble cast of superstars including Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar, who was nominated that year for the Filmfare award for Best Actor category, Amjad stole the show with his unorthodox and eerie dialogue delivery. Even to this day people fondly remember his dialogues and mannerisms. He later appeared in advertisements as Gabbar Singh endorsing Britannia Glucose Biscuits (popularly known as Gabbar Ki Asli Pasand), the first incidence of a villain being used to sell a popular product.