Asif Din

Mohamed Asif Din (born 21 September 1960) is a former British cricketer who played county cricket for Warwickshire from 1981 to 1995. A right-handed batsman and occasional legbreak bowler, he is most famous for scoring a hundred and winning the man-of-the-match award in the 1993 Natwest Trophy final, widely regarded as the best domestic final.

Career Born 21 September 1960 in Kampala, Uganda, Din, like thousands of Ugandan Indians, was expelled from the country in 1972 by Idi Amin. His family arrived in England with £50 to their name.

Asif began playing second XI for Warwickshire in the 1978 season and was introduced to the first team in 1981, making his first-class debut against Yorkshire. He finished his debut season with 878 runs at an average of 26.60. The following season he made a maiden first-class century, against a Middlesex bowling attack containing Wayne Daniel he scored 102 in a team total of 174.

It would be five years before his second first-class century but Asif followed this with a third in Warwickshire's next three-day match a week later. The season was the first in which Asif passed 1,000 runs. and was Warwickshire's leading runscorer in all three limited-overs competitions. The following season he scored 682 runs at 45.46 in one-day cricket, the tally contained two centuries including his highest List A score of 137.

Previously Asif had helped the county win the same trophy in 1989, again sharing an important partnership in the final with Reeve (this time of 69) and this time being at the wicket as victory was assured against Middlesex; he had also been man of the match in the semi-final this year against Worcestershire where he top-scored with 94 not out. He was also Warwickshire's top scorer in the 1982 final against Surrey, although this time appearing on the losing side.

On Warwickshire's tour of Zimbabwe prior to the 1994 season Asif made his highest first-class innings, against a Mashonaland XI he scored 217, 204 of them on a single day. On the previous year's tour of South Africa Asif had taken his career best bowling figures of 5/61 against Boland.

Asif was a member of the Warwickshire squad that completed the treble in 1994, he played in the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup and made 12 appearances in the Sunday League. In the County Championship triumph he played three matches but failed to pass 50 in four innings.

After three final one-day appearances for Warwickshire in 1995, Asif played minor counties cricket for Shropshire from 1996 until 2001, in this period he played seven List A matches for the club in the early rounds of the Natwest Trophy.