Pakistani Cricket Players

Friday 16 March 2012

Inzamam Ul Haq

Inzamam Ul Haq Biography
Inzamam-ul-Haq (born 3 March 1970) is a Pakistani cricketer. He is considered to be one of Pakistan’s best batsmen.He is currently the captain of the Pakistani team.Test Debut: Pakistan v England at Birmingham, 1st Test, 1992. His career highlights are:

Scoring 60 in 37 balls against New Zealand in the semifinal of the 1992 World Cup to win the match that was nearly lost.
Scoring 329 against New Zealand in Lahore during a Test in the 2001-02 season (the twelfth highest score by a batsman)
Scoring 138* to deny Bangladesh victory at Multan.
Becoming the second batsman to score 10,000 runs in one-day inernationals (behind Sachin Tendulkar)
Scoring 184 in his 100th Test, against India at Bangalore in 2005.

Inzamam ul-Haq is well-known for his poor running between the wickets (as of May 2005, he has been run out a record 38 times in one-day internationals) and his ability to play shots around the ground. He has been described as looking “like a passenger in the field”.

He averages just over 50 runs per innings in tests and nearly 40 runs in one-day internationals with a strike rate of 53.65 and 74.20 respectively (figures current as of May 2004). He is called the best batsmen in the world against pace by Imran Khan. Inzamam is a giant that has a very soft touch for a man of his bulk. He usually bats at number three with his sidekick Yousuf Youhana.

He plays shots all round the wicket, is especially strong off his legs, and unleashes ferocious pulls and lofted drives.

Inzamam Ul Haq

Inzamam ul haq - 1992 Semi Final

Inzamam-ul-Haq 100 vs INDIA 2004 Karachi

Salman Butt

Salman Butt Biography
Faced with the task of being the legendary Saeed Anwar’s replacement, Salman Butt shall draw comparisons with the silky opener. Equally gifted with wristwork, early testament of Butt talent was witnessed by his inclusion in the Pakistani U-19 World Cup squad when as young as 16.
Impressive performances with domestic team Lahore Whites and the Pakistan-A side saw an 18 year old Butt handed his international Test debut against a touring Bangladesh in the autumn of 2003, in which he failed to impress. It went worse on his ODI debut against West Indies a year later when dismissed for a duck. As the year progressed, so did Butt’s displays with a half-century at home to Sri Lanka and a first ODI century at India in Kolkata.
In his Test recall on tour to Australia in 2004, Butt faltered in the first test at Perth. A formidable 70 in Melbourne showed spark. Yet only 20, he followed that maiden Test half-century with a maiden Test ton in Sydney.
His second test century came in Multan against England, on the back of a 74 in the first innings, the first time that Butt crossed the half-century mark on both innings of a Test. It took Butt 4 years to record another Test century. He remained a regular in the ODI side, in spite of scoring equivalent numbers of fifties and ducks at one point. Poor Test form (owing to a susceptible defense) saw him dropped in place of Khurram Manzoor in Pakistan’s solitary Test series in 2008 against Sri Lanka. He returned in 2009, to tour Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Impressive Test performances in England (as a neutral venue) against the Aussies led to Butt replacing the retiring Shahid Afridi as captain in 2010. He led Pakistan to a victory in his first test as captain, helping them level the 3-match series.

Fast Facts

5 of Salman Butt’s 8 ODI centuries have come against India.
One of those centuries helped Pakistan chase 308 in the Asia Cup, the 4th instance of a 300+ run chase in their history.
All of Salman Butt’s ODI 8 centuries have come against sub-continent oppositions.
His total of 451 runs in 5 ODI’s against Bangladesh in Pakistan is the highest by any player in an ODI series on Pakistani soil.
He is Pakistan’s 28th Test captain, and his win against Australia is already a better record than all of Imtiaz Ahmed, Javed Burki, Majid Khan, Wasim Bari, Asif Iqbal, Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi.
His 3 ducks in 7 Asia Cup innings until 2010 remains unmatched.
Taking just 52 innings to reach 2000 ODI runs, it is the 11th fastest in the world.
Since his debut in 2004, he’s been Pakistan’s 4th highest ODI run getter.
While averaging around 30 in ODI’s in general, against India, Butt’s average rises to the 45 mark. This difference while playing in Indo-Pak encounters is second only to MS Dhoni’s, whose general average of 43 shoots to 60 in encounters against the sub-continental neighbours.
He was one of Irfan Pathan’s three dismissals in Test cricket’s only first-over hat trick. The two other unfortunate victims were Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf.

Salman Butt

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Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram biography
Wasim Akram born 3 June 1966 is a former Pakistani left arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman in cricket, who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches.

Wasim Akram is regarded as one of the best fast bowlers in cricket history. He holds the world record for most wickets in List A cricket with 881 and is second only to Sri Lankan off-spin bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of One Day International wickets with 502. He is considered to be one of the founders and perhaps the finest exponent of reverse swing bowling.
The revolutionary nature of reverse swing initially resulted in accusations of ball tampering by cricket critics, although the skill of the reverse swing delivery has now been accepted as a legitimate feature of ability in cricket. Wasim Akram's later career was also tarnished with accusations of match fixing by critics, although these remain unproven.

On 30 September 2009, Akram was one of five new members inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram

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Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram- The King Of Swing !!

Wasim Akram : The Greatest bowler of all time. Pakistan

Umar Gul

Umar Gul Biography
The least-hyped but most successful and assured Pakistan pace product of the last few years, Umar Gul is the latest in Pakistan's assembly-line of pace-bowling talent. He had played just nine first-class matches when called up for national duty in the wake of Pakistan's poor 2003 World Cup. On the flat tracks of Sharjah, Gul performed admirably, maintaining excellent discipline and getting appreciable outswing with the new ball.

He isn't express but bowls a very quick heavy ball and his exceptional control and ability to extract seam movement marks him out. Further, his height enables him to extract bounce on most surfaces and from his natural back of a length, it is a useful trait. His first big moment in his career came in the Lahore Test against India in 2003-04. Unfazed by a daunting batting line-up, Gul tore through the Indian top order, moving the ball both ways off the seam at a sharp pace. His 5 for 31 in the first innings gave Pakistan the early initiative which they drove home to win the Test.

Unfortunately, that was his last cricket of any kind for over a year as he discovered three stress fractures in his back immediately after the Test. The injury would have ended many an international career, but Gul returned, fitter and sharper than before in late 2005. He returned in a Pakistan shirt against India in the ODI series at home in February 2006 and in Sri Lanka showed further signs of rehabilitation by lasting both Tests but it was really the second half of 2006, where he fully came of age. Leading the attack against England and then the West Indies as Pakistan's main bowlers suffered injuries, Gul stood tall, finishing Pakistan's best bowler.

Since then, as Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar have floundered, Gul has become Pakistan's spearhead and one of the best fast bowlers in the world. He is smart enough and good enough to succeed in all three formats and 2009 proved it: he put together a patch of wicket-taking in ODIs, on dead pitches in Tests (including a career-best six-wicket haul against Sri Lanka) and established himself as the world's best Twenty20 bowler, coming on after the initial overs and firing in yorkers on demand.

He had hinted at that by being leading wicket-taker in the 2007 World Twenty20; over the next two years he impressed wherever he went, in the IPL for the Kolkatta Knight Riders and in Australia's domestic Twenty20 tournament. Confirmation came on the grandest stage: having poleaxed Australia in a T20I in Dubai with 4-8, he was the best bowler and leading wicket-taker as Pakistan won the second World Twenty20 in England. The highlight was 5-6 against New Zealand, the highest quality exhibition of yorker bowling. He is not a one-format pony, however, and will remain a crucial cog in Pakistan's attack across all formats.

Umar Gul

Umar Gul Vs Aussies =Its Amazing

Yousuf Pathan Abuses to Umar Gul

Umar Akmal

Umar Akmal Biography
As explosive starts to one’s International careers go, few can rival Umar Akmal. He announced his entry with scores of 66 and 102* within his first 3 ODI innings (at Sri performances weren’t a surprise. At first class level, Akmal was renowned for his big Lanka, 2009) in addition to a 129 and 75 on Test debut (at New Zealand, 2009). Those scores amassed in quick time. 7 years prior to his debut, Umar’s elder brother Kamran had already gotten his taste of international cricket. By 2010, the siblings featured regularly, in tandem for Pakistan.
As a fearless, middle-order batsman, throughout Pakistan’s disappointing spree of series losses against Sri Lanka in 2009 and later at Australia in early 2010, Umar Akmal’s ascendance was one of their few positives. But as the series in Australia progressed, complacency began to creep into Akmal’s Test form, which started to dip. In ODIs though, a hundred and five fifties by his 18th outing maintained a steady average. It was enough to justify an inclusion in Pakistan’s 2010 T20 World Cup squad. He finished the tournament as Pakistan’s 3rd highest-run getter towards their semi-final run.
While still protected as a batsman, featuring at 3-down, in a Pakistan side that lacks specialist batsmen with the temperament for all forms of the game, Umar Akmal is their most proven rookie to fill the void for the years to come.

Fast Facts

Akmal’s total of 204 runs on his Test debut (against New Zealand) is the 8th highest ever.
It’s also the second highest for a Pakistani debutant behind Yasir Hameed’s 275 in 2003.
Akmal’s 129 on Test debut is the 4th highest for a Pakistani, making him one of only 7 players from his country to score a century on debut. Among those on the list, Akmal is the only centurion to have achieved the feat on foreign soil.
It took Umar Akmal 38 matches (6 Tests, 18 ODIs and 14 T20s) until playing for Pakistan in Pakistan, the third most behind teammate Mohammad Aamer (41) and Sri Lankan Greame Labrooy (53).
Along with brother Kamran Akmal, the Akmals are the 4th blood brothers to feature for Pakistan in the 60-odd years of cricket history.
Among top order batsmen, Akmal has the 4th best strike rate overall (Test, ODI and T20) for Pakistani players. (Minimum of 40 matches).

Umar Akmal

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