Owais Shah

The former England quick, who qualifies through his mother, will feature in the T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier next month

Mathews, Mendis, Perera among local talent; Steyn, Russell, Amir lend overseas glamour in five-team T20 tournament

It's lonely, players have to take care of their own fitness, coaching and schedules, and always live with the risk of being dropped

Owais Shah discusses the challenge for England's batsmen in India, and his new role coaching UAE

Former England batsman given three-month contract following 15-day stint as coaching consultant during UAE's 2-1 series victory against Oman in October

A superb partnership between Owais Shah and Sean Ervine of 85 from just 6.2 overs propelled Hampshire to a 19 run victory over Middlesex and to second in the South Group

Owais Shah's county career will continue into 2015 after he signed another contract with Hampshire to play in the NatWest T20 Blast.

Owais Shah and Ben Dunk have been signed as replacements for Ahmed Shehzad and Thisara Perera in the Caribbean Premier League

Hampshire claimed a quite unexpectedly straightforward victory even though Michael Carberry, so often their match-winning performer in limited-overs cricket, was out of sorts.

Hampshire scored the highest total of the NatWest T20 Blast season so far as they beat Middlesex by 47 runs at the Merchant Taylors' School Ground in Northwood

Owais Shah has retired from first-class cricket to pursue a career as a Twenty20 freelance around the world and Essex are hopeful of having him back in that capacity for 2014

Essex's hopes of winning promotion virtually came to an end when they could only draw their Championship Division Two match with Glamorgan at Chelmsford

It is not often that the first day of a four-day game begins and ends under floodlights. But Owais Shah didn't seem to mind as he landed some telling blows for Essex on day where the September sun was second best.

Hampshire, the FLt20 holders, are through to the quarter-finals. Surprisingly beaten at the Ageas Bowl by Kent last weekend, they managed to defeat a stronger side, Essex, after choosing to bat in the floodlit twilight

Owais Shah clattered six sixes in a match-defining innings of 59 as Essex opened their Friends Life t20 win account with a 47-run success over Kent in Canterbury

Why does Britain still await its first batting star of Asian stock?

Adam Hollioake captains ESPNcricinfo's team of the decade, selected to mark ten years of professional Twenty20 cricket in England

Owais Shah on batting with his hero, and the time he got tonked on the head

A round-up of the Ram Slam T20 Challenge matches played on March 12, 2013