In New Zealand’s homegrown circuit, he has played for Central Districts (2012-13-Present) across every one of the 3 configurations.
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An uncommon event in present day cricket, Ajaz has likewise played homegrown cricket outside of his nation of origin addressing Yorkshire County Cricket Club (2019) in England.
Born in Mumbai, Ajaz had emigrated to New Zealand, with his family, when he was 8 years of age. In his formative years, he was a left-arm crease bowler.
It was distinctly in his mid 20s that he had understood that he would be in an ideal situation changing to turn bowling as his stature would be a restricting variable in turning into a good speed bowler.
He had initial come into the spotlight in the 2015-16 period of the Plunket Shield (New Zealand’s chief homegrown top of the line cricket contest) when he had topped the competition’s wicket-taking outlines with 43 excusals.
He was the main wicket-taker in the accompanying 2 seasons (2016-17 and 2017-18) too, with 44 and 48 excusals, separately. In the remainder of those seasons, his bowling was fundamental in his group’s re-visitation of the title.
Following his endeavors, in April 2018, he was named the ‘Men’s Domestic Player of the Year’ at the New Zealand Cricket Awards.
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Because of his reliably prevailing exhibition in homegrown cricket, he was chosen in every one of the 3 of New Zealand’s crews (Tests, ODIs, and T20Is) for their reciprocal series against Pakistan in the UAE in late 2018.
He proceeded to make his Test and T20I debuts for New Zealand on that visit, turning into the fifth Indian-beginning cricketer to play for New Zealand after Ted Badcock, Tom Puna, Ish Sodhi, and Jeet Raval.
In his test match debut for New Zealand, against Pakistan in November 2018, he had scalped 5 wickets in the subsequent innings, assisting New Zealand with winning by the most slender of edges – 4 runs. He was named the ‘Player of the Match’. With 13 wickets in 3 matches, he was New Zealand’s most noteworthy wicket-taker in the Test series.
New Zealand proceeded to win the series by an edge of 2-1. It was New Zealand’s first away Test series win against Pakistan starting around 1969.
In December 2021, in the second match of New Zealand’s two-sided away test series against India, in his introduction to the world city of Mumbai, he had become recently the third bowler in history to take every one of the 10 wickets in a test match innings.
The 2 bowlers to have accomplished this intriguing accomplishment before Ajaz were Jim Laker of England (in 1956) and Anil Kumble of India (1999).
He completed the coordinate with generally figures of 14/225, the best by any bowler in a Test match against India, outperforming Sir Ian Botham’s 13/106 of every 1980.
These were likewise the second best bowling figures by a New Zealander in test match cricket, just behind Sir Richard Hadlee who had taken 15/123 against Australia in Brisbane in 1985.
The match was a fairly self-contradicting experience for him in light of the fact that, regardless of his generational heroics in his city of birth, India pounded New Zealand by 372 shows and took the series to an edge of 1-0.
This was India’s most prominent ever edge of triumph in test cricket and New Zealand’s most awful at any point rout ever.
By goodness of this success, India had likewise uprooted New Zealand from the top situation in the ICC Test Rankings. Ajaz consequently turned into the bowler with the best test match figures ever (14/225) to wind up on the losing side.
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He had made his essence in the main match of the series too, this time with the bat.
With New Zealand struggling at 155/9 in 89.2 overs, in sad quest for an objective of 284 runs, he had strolled onto the pitch as the last batsman.
However, resisting all expectations, he had stuck around gamely with debutant Rachin Ravindra for 8.4 overs which had acquired New Zealand a draw, in this manner keeping the series tied at 0-0 with a game left.
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