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Shahid Afridi biography

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (born 1 March 1980 in Khyber Agency), popularly known as Shahid Afridi, is a Pakistani cricketer currently playing for the Pakistani national team in the international circuit. He made his ODI debut on 2 October 1996 against Kenya in Nairobi[1] and his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia at Karachi.[2] He is known for his aggressive batting style, and currently holds the highest career strike rate in the history of international cricket. In a recent survey, Afridi was named as the most popular cricketer in Pakistan.[3] He also holds the record for the fastest one day century which he made in his debut innings, as well as scoring 32 runs in a single over, the second highest scoring over ever in an ODI.

Style

His general style of batting is very aggressive and attack oriented and has earned him the nickname “Boom Boom Afridi” for his fastest One Day International century just in 37 balls. As of 22 May 2007, he has an ODI strike rate of 109.38 runs per 100 balls, the highest in the game’s history. This attitude has been transferred to Test cricket as well, with Afridi scoring at a relatively high strike rate of 86.13 in Tests. He has an approach to batting that can change the tempo of a game and inspire the mood of an audience, as shown when a mass exodus of spectators occurred in Pakistan in late 2005 following his dismissal from the crease. He hits many sixes long and high, favoring straight down the ground or over midwicket. A trademark shot is a crossbatted flick to the leg-side to a ball outside off stump.[8]. This explosive style has led to some memorable shots, most notably the first ever 12 in power cricket in 2002, where Afridi successfully hit the roof. [9] However, his aggressive style increases his risk of getting out and he is one of the most inconsistent batsmen in cricket. This is reflected by the fact that he is the only player to score more than 5000 ODI runs at an average under 25.

Bowling-wise, his stock ball is the leg break, but his armory also includes the conventional off break and a ‘quicker one’ which he can deliver at nearly 80 mph in the style of a medium-pacer. He bowls at a high speed for a spinner, resulting in lesser turn, and relying more on variations in speed. He occasionally sends down a bouncer to a batsmen, which is very rare for a spin bowler.

International career

In October 1996 at the age of sixteen he was brought into the ODI team as a legspinner as a replacement for the injured Mushtaq Ahmed. He then gained notability as a pinch-hitter and began opening with Saeed Anwar. He holds the record for scoring the fastest century in one-day internationals (off 37 balls)[12], scored in only his second match and his first ODI innings. He also shares with Brian Lara the record for the third-fastest century in ODIs (off 45 balls). One of Pakistan’s most useful all-rounders, he has an extremely aggressive batting style, which has garnered him over 5,000 ODI runs (including an erstwhile world-record 249 sixes, recently broken by Sanath Jayasuriya), as well as taking over 250 wickets at ODI and 47 at Test level.

For various reasons, including a perception that he lacks patience in his batting, Afridi had limited opportunity in Test matches, although he currently averages in the high thirties and mid-thirties with bat and ball respectively. As it is, Afridi has featured in less than one third of the Test Matches played by Pakistan over the course of his career.[13] However, he made his presence felt in the third Test against India in March 2005, scoring a quick-fire second-innings half-century and taking five wickets in the match (including Tendulkar twice) to help Pakistan to win the game and register a series draw.

It is perceived that his batting struggles on bouncy pitches and against opponents like Australia, although his record against the Australians has improved over time. Although he has had success as an opener on sub-continent pitches, Afridi is often moved into the lower order as well.

Afridi was more consistent with his batting and bowling throughout 2005, starting with the tours of India and West Indies and through to the England tour. The Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer helped Afridi to reach a fuller potential by improving his shot selection and giving him free rein over his batting attitude.

In the 2007 World Twenty20, he performed poorly with the bat but brilliantly with the ball, earning the Man of the Series award, though he failed to take a wicket in the final and was out for a golden duck.

Career Highlights

* On 4 October 1996, playing his maiden international innings, Afridi hit the fastest One-Day century off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi. His innings included 28 runs off one of Sanath Jayasuriya’s overs, whose record he broke. [15]

* Youngest player in history to make an ODI century at just 16 years and 217 days with his 37 ball ton against Sri Lanka. It included 11 sixes and 6 fours. [16]

* Made a half-century from 26 balls and took 3 second-innings wickets in Pakistan’s series-drawing Test victory against India in March 2005.[14]

* Holds the joint record with Brian Lara for the third fastest ODI century off 45 balls in April 2005 against India. [17] This actually was the first match that witnessed the Indian cricketer-turned-commentator Ravi Shastri make him the nickname Boom Boom Afridi.

* Equal highest aggregate sixes scored in the 50-over game, shared the legendary Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya, and he the most sixes per innings record.

* Scored four consecutive sixes off a Harbhajan Singh over in a Test match against India in January 2006, matching a feat that Kapil Dev achieved in 1990.

* Was the first player to score 12 runs off one ball, by hitting the roof of the Millennium Stadium. This took place in a game of Power Cricket.[citation needed][clarification needed]

* Holds four of the top eight fastest ODI half centuries, twice completed in 18 balls and twice in 20 balls. He has also scored a half century off just 21 balls.

* Made 32 runs off a Malinga Bandara over in an ODI game at Abu Dhabi in 2007. He struck four consecutive sixes and it was the 2nd most expensive over in ODI history.

* Afridi is only third player in ODI history to achieve the combination of 5000 runs and 200 wickets. The other players being Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya and South African Jacques Kallis.

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Aaqib Javed

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Aaqib Javed Biography

An below-ranked hasty-medium bowler who mastered conventional and render null and void-swing. He had a dashing run-up which terminated in a far above the ground exploit, associated to a antagonistic approach towards batsmen. Aqib Javed was supposedly merely 16 at what time he made his Test first appearance in 1988-89, other than he exhausted a great deal of his profession in the shadows of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, in spite of playing an important part in Pakistan’s 1992 World Cup triumph at what time he opened the bowling in point of fact in position of the wounded Waqar. The following tour of England was action-packed too.

Aqib was mixed up in a tarnished jersey-tugging unpleasant incident with umpire Roy Palmer later than he had without cause inclined diminutive at England’s No. 11 Devon Malcolm. Aqib was in and out of the side to boot much for his penchant, and made more of a collision as a one-day player. His profession finished in the middle of the bitterness of Pakistan’s match-setting up argument, in which he was seen as one of the unsoiled players.

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Sarfraz Nawaz

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Sarfraz Nawaz Biography

An immense, heavily built Punjabi, Sarfraz shaped a strong and powerful partnership with Imran Khan, and was one who is leading the way of reverse-swing. His for the most part productive magic charm approached in the Melbourne Test of 1978-79, other than he kept going away commendably on several unfeeling Test pitches in Pakistan. Later than retirement he turned out to be a forthright MP and cricket commentator.

Sarfaraz proved himself a hasty-medium bowler of rank, a hard-hitting customer at for the most part of times who obsessed unnerring correctness at the same time as bowling. His capability to strike the ball despite the fact that batting inferior down the order made him a helpful all-rounder and he was the third Pakistani to take 100 Test wickets and score 1000 Test runs.

He obsessed a high-quality accomplishment and the capability to ridge the bowl with the same efficiency both ways. On March 15, 1979 at Melbourne, he bowled a unforgettable magic charm to take nine wickets in an innings. He has given notice to seven batsmen despite the fact that yielding one run from 33 balls. He was a extremely contentious player because of his idiosyncrasies and frame of mind swings and bowled a sequence of bouncers at other fast bowlers for instance Jeff Thompson and Joel Garner. Some time ago, protesting concerning his pay, he flew to England for the duration of a Test series between the two teams in Pakistan. He was also caught up in the Hildrich affair at some stage in the Australian tour of 1979.

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Abdul Qadir

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Abdul Qadir Biography

Cricket has Abdul Qadir to show gratitude for maintenance wrist-whirl alive all the way through the darkest years of the belatedly 1970s and ’80s. He did it by means of fashion, as well. Sanctified by means of a fast bowler’s personality and fire, he bounded his dexterity by way of inscrutability. Earlier than the 1982 tour to England, captain Imran Khan inquired him to grow up a French beard to improve the atmosphere and it gave the desired output: England were his favourite fatalities all the way through his profession, accountable for his international burst through in 1977-78 as well as his most excellent hours, at the Oval in 1987 and the home series afterward that year (he took 30 wickets in three Tests, together with the best bowling in an innings by a Pakistani, 9 for 56 in Lahore). Imran was to be an important manipulate on his profession, one of the small number of proficient of in receipt of the most excellent out of Qadir the man and bowler.

A very well leg spinner, in a specific era accountable for the new beginning of leg spin in the 1980s. He may possibly bowl, extremely in actual fact, all the deliverances to be had to a leg-spinner. Bowling off a sensible run, with a swift action, and a looping voyage, he could concealing outfit all his deliverances marvelously and only some could differentiate the liberation kind from his wrist achievement. A lot of wickets were taken in the midst of the superfluous bounce of his top-spinner. A dissatisfaction on his first tour of England in 1978, not playing a Test and overwhelmed by wound, he went on to take more Test wickets than any Pakistani spinner. Not much of a bat, but skillful in the meadow, his recommendation has been a great deal required later than in his retirement.

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Waqar Younis

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Waqar Younis Biography

Waqar Younis Maitla (born November 16, 1971) is a famous Pakistani cricketer from Burewala, Punjab, and one of the greatest bowlers the game has known. He attended Pakistani College, Sharjah and Government College, Vehari. Playing as a fast bowler, he took 373 Test wickets and 416 wickets in One-day Internationals. He debuted for Pakistan against India on November 15, 1989. It is noteworthy that Sachin Tendulkar debuted in the same match. His most lethal weapon was the in-swinging yorker, which he managed to produce at will and with a high degree of accuracy, as experienced first-hand by plenty of county batsmen who were unfortunate enough to face him at his peak.

Known as the "Burewala Bombshell", Waqar formed one half of the legendary fast bowling partnership with Wasim Akram. At his peak, most were of the view that there was no better bowler, especially with regards to wicket-taking ability and being penetrative. His tendency to aim for the stumps earned him the highest strike rate of all time, among the bowlers with 200 or more wickets. His blistering pace and toe-crushing yorkers put tremendous fear in the batsmen. Much was expected of him but he stayed out of the team for quite a long time to do his talents and fans justice because of his controversial conflicts with once bowling partner and captain Wasim Akram. His comeback, however, came with him being appointed the Captain of the national side - which he remained so till his side failed to make an impact in the 2003 World Cup. He was forced to retire as the Pakistan Cricket Board persistently ignored him for national selection.

Waqar was one of a long line of Pakistanis (starting with Safraz Nawaz) who mastered the art of reverse swing. It was his partnership with Wasim Akram that took this art to new levels, and their 1992 series versus England will forever be remembered as their signature series. Many sections of the English media could not fathom how an old ball could swing so much and so late, and this led to cries of foul play and the infamous allegations of "ball-tampering" from some quarteres. The passage of time, coupled with the fact that England now have their own reverse swing bowlers, has led to an appreciation of the science and skill behind reverse swing, and most now accept that Waqar was simply ahead of his time.

Waqar Younis is cited alongside Wasim Akram, Allan Donald, Glenn McGrath, Walsh and Ambrose as the best fast bowler of the 90s. While his contemporaries, Donald and McGrath, played most of their cricket on the fast and bouncy tracks of South Africa and Australia, backed up by the spectacular fielding sides, Waqar Younis, on the other hand, had to contend with the slow and docile tracks of the sub-continent, backed by a fielding side that had nothing so distinguished to write about. An astonishing number of Waqar's wickets have been clean bowled or have come from leg-before decisions showing how much he has had to depend on his own efforts to get his batsmen. He will be known for his attacking bowling as against the "line n' length" bowling of the most of his peers. He bowled one of his best balls to Brian Lara, another cricketing legend, which ended with Lara on the ground, his stump flipped 6 feet away. Waqar Younis has some outstanding records. He is the only bowler who has taken 5 wicket haul in 3 consecutive ODIs. He has taken 4+ wickets on 27 occasions in ODIs, which is a record. He has also taken the fastest 50, 300, 350 and 400 wickets in ODI matches and in test matches he has taken the fastest 150, 200, 250, 300, 350 wickets by lesser number of balls bowled.

Although primarily a bowler, Waqar hit 1010 Test runs; he is in fact (as of September 2005) the only man to pass the thousand mark without ever scoring a fifty. He is now married with a son and a daughter. Recently, he has become a television cricket commentator for Australia's Nine Network since a series against Australia and Pakistan.

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