Ahmed made his first-class debut in November 1932, playing a once-off game for the Rawalpindi Sports Club in the semi-final of the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament.
[1] A right-arm medium pacer, he took 3/145 on debut in the only innings of his opponent, the Freelooters, with his victims including future Indian Test players Amar Singh and Vijay Merchant.
In the first game of the tournament, against the Indian Army team in Lahore, he took four wickets for the match, including what were to be career-best figures of 3/29 in the second innings.
[5] Ahmed is not recorded as playing in any further major matches until August 1940, during the 1940 English season, when he appeared for an Indian side in a fundraising game against a "British Empire XI".
Ahmed played a two-day game against the touring Commonwealth XI side, in Rawalpindi in November 1949,[6] and made his eighth and final first-class appearance in March 1950, against Ceylon.