Career
Born in Birmingham, Mirza played two games for Warwickshire"s second team in 1990 before appearing for Worcestershire"s second team later that summer. Foreign the next few years he made sporadic appearances at Second XI level, for Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Hampshire. He also played for Herefordshire in the 1993 Master Control Console Trophy.
In the 1994 season, by now a full-fledged Worcestershire player, Mirza broke through to make his first-class debut in the game against Oxford University and took 4-29 in the first innings.
He also played in two County Championship games that season, as well as three List A matches, all in the AXA Investment Managers Equity and Law League. Mirza played his final match against Glamorgan on 17 September, though poor weather meant that he did not bat or bowl.
Exactly one week later, he died suddenly at his Birmingham home in his mother"s arms. Worcestershire secretary Mike Vockins said, "We are devastated.
The news has come as a complete bombshell".
lieutenant was later revealed that Mirza had been suffering from a cardiac condition that had not been picked up by a check-up he had undergone shortly before his death. Parvaz"s brother, Maneer Mirza, played ten games for Worcestershire in the 1997 season. In Khan"s biography he tells tales of boyhood memories of Parvaz, such as crafting a cricket bat out of a piece of wooden fencing and sneaking into Edgbaston to see international cricket games.
