Taufiq Ahmed
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Taufiq Ahmed was a East Pakistani cricketer who played a single first-class match for East Pakistan during the 1954–55 season. A right-handed batsman, his first and only recorded match came against a Combined Services team in November 1954, during the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, which was East Pakistan's first match at first-class level. In the match, played at the Club Ground in Dhaka, Taufiq batted fifth in East Pakistan's first innings, and scored 28 runs (the second highest score of the innings) before being caught by Mazhar Siddiqi off the bowling of Ghulam Mohiuddin. In East Pakistan's second innings, he was bowled by Shujauddin for a duck, with East Pakistan losing the match by 131 runs. Taufiq did not play any further matches at first-class level.