[2] Abid made it to the Hyderabad junior side in 1958–59 and the state Ranji Trophy team in the next year.

He made it to the team for the first Test against Australia possibly in the place of the captain, M. A. K. Pataudi, who dropped out injured.

Abid was the non-striker when Sunil Gavaskar scored the winning runs against the West Indies in the Port of Spain Test of 1971.

When West Indies tried to chase a difficult target in the final Test of the series, Abid bowled Rohan Kanhai and Garry Sobers off consecutive balls.

Before coaching the UAE, he trained the Andhra team that won the South Zone league in Ranji Trophy in 2001–02.

[4] Obituaries for Abid Ali appeared in the media in the early 1990s when he had in fact survived a heart bypass surgery.