He and the future Test player Mushtaq Mohammad, who was also making his first-class debut for Karachi Whites, dismissed each other.
When Hyderabad won for the first time, against Khairpur in 1959-60, Ahmed took 6 for 36 with his left-arm spin in the second innings.
[3] He captained Hyderabad in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1961-62, but they lost all three of their matches, failing to dismiss any of their opponents.
[5] In Wounded Tiger, his history of Pakistan cricket, Peter Oborne says Ahmed has the unique distinction of having dismissed all five brothers of the famous Mohammad family in first-class cricket.
Ahmed earned a master's degree in English Literature at the University of Sindh and began his journalism career at the Indus Times in Hyderabad.