Asif Din

Mohamed Asif Din (born 1960) is a former English 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.

Born 21 September 1960 in Kampala, Uganda, Din, like thousands of Ugandan Asians, 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. He reached that landmark for a second, and only other, time the following season when he scored 1,425 runs at 38.51.

For the rest of his career Asif had more success in List A cricket (one-day cricket). In 1990 he scored 792 runs at 46.58, 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.

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