Antum Naqvi

Antum Amir Naqvi (Urdu: انتم عامر نقوی; born 5 April 1999) is a Belgium-born Zimbabwean cricketer, who plays as a right-arm off-spinner and right-hand batter.^[1][2]

Antum Naqvi

Personal information
Full name	Antum Amir Naqvi
Born	(1999-04-05) 5 April 1999 (age 26) Brussels, Belgium
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off-spin
Role	Batting all-rounder
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2022/23–present	Mid West Rhinos
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20 Matches 18 22 12 Runs scored 1,450 1,286 320 Batting average 65.90 61.23 40.00 100s/50s 5/6 6/5 0/2 Top score 300* 158 61 Balls bowled 2,320 907 223 Wickets 47 24 15 Bowling average 25.23 33.25 16.73 5 wickets in innings 2 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 – – Best bowling 5/52 3/33 4/20 Catches/stumpings 11/– 9/– 8/–
Source: Cricinfo, 27 April 2025

Personal life

Naqvi was born in Brussels, Belgium, to Belgian parents whose families had migrated to Belgium from Pakistan and India.^[3] When he was four years old his family moved to Australia, where he was educated at The Hills Sports High School in Sydney.^[4] He is a qualified commercial pilot.^[5] His younger brother Awad Naqvi plays for Tuskers.^[6]

Domestic career

While Naqvi was living and playing cricket in Darwin in Australia, he was encouraged to play cricket in Zimbabwe by the former Zimbabwe international player Solomon Mire.^[5] He made his first-class cricket debut in Zimbabwe in January 2023, playing for Mid West Rhinos in the Logan Cup against Eagles. He scored 140 not out batting at number six, and took 4 for 22 in the first innings and another wicket and three catches in the second innings in an innings victory for Rhinos.^[7] In his second match a few days later he scored 103 in Mid West Rhinos' only innings,^[8] thus becoming the 21st person in the history of first-class cricket to score hundreds in his first two innings.^[9] In the final match of the competition, Naqvi made a third century and took five wickets.^[10]

Naqvi made his List A debut in October 2023. In his second match, two days after his first, he took 3 for 56 and scored 128 not out off 93 balls, finishing off the victory for Rhinos with an unbroken 202-run partnership with Tarisai Musakanda.^[11] Since then Naqvi has scored two more List A 100s.

In January 2024, captaining Mid West Rhinos in the Logan Cup against Matabeleland Tuskers, Naqvi scored 300 not out off 295 deliveries before declaring at 538 for 3; Rhinos went on to win by an innings and 40 runs. It is the first triple-century in the history of Zimbabwean domestic cricket.^[12][13][14]

In March 2025, Naqvi captained Rhinos to the Zimbabwe Domestic Twenty20 championship. They won all four of their round-robin matches, then won the final, in which Naqvi scored 50 off 32 balls then took 2 for 19.^[15][16]

International career

In July 2024, he earned his maiden call-up for the Zimbabwe national team for their T20I series against India. However, he did not play in any of the matches.^{[17][18][19][20]}