Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian Test captain, once said while commentating that the Indian players would often say to Zaheer, "Zaheer Ab-bas karo", which means "Zaheer, stop it now" in Urdu and Hindi, referring to Abbas' free scoring.
Abbas Kiarostami | Mahmoud Abbas | Bandar Abbas | Abbas I of Egypt | Roshan Abbas | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | Khalid Abbas Dar | Abbas | Youssouf Saleh Abbas | Milton Abbas | Itchen Abbas | Abbas I | Abbas (actor) | Imran Abbas Naqvi | Abbas Saad | Abbas Milani | Abbas I of Persia | Waseem Abbas | Shah Abbas | Prince Abbas Hilmi | Nadeem Abbas | Abbas Zaki | Abbas Tyrewala | Abbas II of Persia | Abbas II of Egypt | Abbas Gharib | Abbas El Fassi | Zaheer Ahmed | Zaheer Abbas | Yunis Khatayer Abbas |
In all, he played 455 first-class matches, amassing 34,346 runs at 49.70, including 103 centuries—making him one of a select few to score a "century of centuries", one of only four non-English cricketers to do so (the others being Donald Bradman, Zaheer Abbas and Viv Richards).