Pakistani Cricket Players

Friday 28 October 2011

ZAHEER ABAS

ZAHEER ABBAS BIOGRAPHY
Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani (Urdu: سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی) (born 24 July 1947) is a former Pakistani cricketer regarded as one of the finest batsmen produced by that country. Zaheer played his first Test in 1969, and in his very second Test he scored 274 against England, still the fourth ever highest score by a Pakistani batsman. This was the first of four double-centuries Abbas made; only six men have scored more.[1] Abbas, fondly called the 'Run Machine', also had great success in first-class cricket, and is the only Asian batsman to have scored one hundred first class centuries. [2]. He also had a long stint with Gloucestershire; joining the county in 1972, he remained there for thirteen years. During that time he scored over a thousand runs in the majority of his thirteen seasons. He also made over two thousand runs in a single season on two occasions for the club (1976 and 1981). During those thirteen years at Gloucestershire he played 206 First Class games, scoring over 16,000 runs. He averaged 49.79, hitting 49 100s and 76 50s. Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian Test captain, has 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. He remains the second highest on the all-time ICC ODI batting rankings[1]. Zaheer retired from international cricket in 1985, and has officiated as a match referee in one Test and three ODI matches. Zaheer is known in Pakistan as the \"Asian Bradman\", a reference to former Australian great Sir Donald Bradman

Zaheer Abbas

Zaheer Abbas 186 vs India 2nd test 1982/83 Karachi

Zaheer Abbas 274 vs England 1st test 1971

SARFRAZ NAWAZ

SARFRAZ NAWAZ MALIK BIOGRAPHY
Full Name Sarfraz Nawaz Malik

Born: December 01, 1948, Lahore

ODI Debut:

Pakistan Vs New Zealand at Jade Stadium (Lancaster Park), Christchurch - Feb 11, 1973

Last played:

Pakistan Vs New Zealand at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar - Nov 12, 1984

TEST Debut:

Pakistan Vs England at National Stadium, Karachi - Mar 06, 1969

Last played:

Pakistan Vs England at Gaddafi Stadium (Lahore Stadium), Lahore - Mar 19, 1984

Sarfraz Nawaz Malik (Urdu: سرفراز نواز ملک) (born December 1, 1948, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer turned politician[1] who was the founder of reverse swing in cricket and passed it onto later Pakistani bowlers known for making sensational claims.[2] He played in 55 Tests and 45 ODIs from 1969 to 1984. His greatest bowling performance came in a Test match against Australia in 1979 in Melbourne when he took nine wickets in an innings. This included a remarkable spell of 33 deliveries in which he captured 7 wickets for 1 run. In the very next match, Javed Miandad successfully appealed for handled the ball against Australian opener Andrew Hilditch - Hilditch was given out 'handled the ball.' The batsman picked up the ball returned from a fielder in rather a friendly way. An appeal was made and he was given out. In the same match fast bowler Hurst ran out Sikander, at the non-striker's end when he was backing up while the bowler had completed the delivery. [3][4] In the 1980s, Sarfraz married the film actress, Rani. In 1985, he contested successfully for membership of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and remained a member (MPA) for 3 years[5].

Sarfraz Nawaz Malik

Sarfraz Nawaz 9/86 vs Australia 1st test 1978/79 MCG PART ONE

SARFRAZ IN GEO PAKISTAN

RAO IFTIKHAR ANJUM

RAO IFTIKHAR ANJUM BIOGRAPHY
Full name Rao Iftikhar Anjum
Born December 1, 1980, Khanewal, Punjab
Current age 30 years 331 days
Major teams Pakistan, Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad Cricket Association, Surrey
Also known as Rao Iftikhar
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Rao Iftikhar Anjum is another addition to Pakistan's seemingly endless production line of pace bowlers. Iftikhar, however, is more Aaqib Javed than Wasim Akram or Waqar Younis, and his outswinger is considered by many to be as effective as Aaqib's. He can bowl reverse-swing - a prerequisite for Pakistani bowlers, when the ball gets a bit rougher, with good control over his yorkers. Iftikhar has performed consistently well in the domestic circuit since making his debut three years ago, taking over 200 wickets on the generally lifeless pitches of Pakistan. It was his stellar performances in the current domestic season that brought him to national attention. Iftikhar led his team - the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited - to victory in the Patron's Trophy final against WAPDA, taking seven wickets in the first innings and ending with ten in the match. Not surprisingly, he was included in Pakistan's one-day squad for the series against India in 2004, before making his debut in the Paktel Cup seven moths later. He has since proved himself adept as a back-up bowler. But continuing injuries to Pakistan's frontline pacers means he remains perenially in the picture and he was rewarded with a Test debut against Sri Lanka in April 2006. Though he was expensive and wicketless, he would have been satisfied with a winning debut. With three of Pakistan's leading fast bowlers missing from the England series that summer, he was called up for the Tests but the unfortunate death of his father meant a return home and missing out on the Test series. And due to the regular injuries suffered by Pakistan's plethora of fast bowlers, he remains a permanent part of Pakistan's wider plans. He was part of the squad for the ICC World Twenty20 as well as the home series against South Africa that followed.

Rao Iftikhar Anjum

Afridi what a catch it was a master catch against SAFbest catches in 2009

Pakistan Bowling v India - Asia Cup 2008

SHABBIR AHMED

SHABBIR AHMED BIOGRAPHY

Full name Shabbir Ahmed Khan
Born April 21, 1976, Khanewal, Punjab
Current age 35 years 190 days
Major teams Pakistan, Bahawalpur, Chennai Superstars, Gloucestershire, ICL Pakistan XI, Multan, National Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan Reserves, Redco Pakistan Ltd, Rest of Punjab, Water and Power Development Authority
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
With the imposition of a one-year ban on him for a suspect bowling action in December 2005, Shabbir Ahmed's career will forever be blighted. He was called after the first Test against England in Multan, the second time in a year and worryingly, the fourth time in his short career. And it will remain a shame for Shabbir's career thus far held a good deal of promise. Not only did he become the joint-fastest Pakistani bowler to 50 Test wickets (with Waqar Younis in 10 Tests), but as a tall (6'5"), gangly fast-medium bowler Shabbir is moulded from different materials altogether than most Pakistani fast men. He extracts a great deal of bounce, even on lifeless wickets, and bowling from close to the stumps - much like Glenn McGrath - allows him to stick to a tight wicket-to-wicket line. He seams and cuts more than he swings, often sharply and both ways and is a sound exponent of reverse swing. He was express when he made his ODI debut, picking up three wickets but he was immediately reported - and has since reduced his pace considerably. His Test career began in impressive style as well with an eight-wicket haul against Bangladesh in Karachi, on a track that offered no assistance to the pace bowlers and in most performances since, around the world, he has picked up wickets and stemmed the flow of runs. A genial, unassuming character who started playing cricket as a batsman, his laidback personality only enhances the poignancy of what has happened to him.

Shabbir Ahmed Khan

Shabbir Ahmed bowls Laxman

Shabbir Ahmed vs Stephen Fleming unplayable delivery

SALEEM MALIK

SALEEM MALIK BIOGRAPHY

Saleem Malik (Urdu: سلیم ملک) (born April 16, 1963)(also known as Salim Malik) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective. Despite playing over 100 Tests he would go down in cricket history as the first of a number of international cricketers to be banned for match fixing during the turn of the 20th century. Saleem is the brother in law of former teammate Ijaz Ahmed.[1]

Saleem Malik

Salim Malik breaks 10 years old silence in talking with Tabi for News One TV Lahore.

Tabi having exclusive and important talk with Salim Malik

ABDUL QADIR

ABDUL QADIR BIOGRAPHY
Full name Abdul Qadir Khan
Born September 15, 1955, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 56 years 43 days
Major teams Pakistan, Habib Bank Limited, Lahore, Punjab
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Relation Brother - Ali Bahadur, Son - Rehman Qadir, Son - Imran Qadir, Son - Sulaman Qadir, Son - Usman Qadir

Cricket has Abdul Qadir to thank for keeping wrist-spin alive through the darkest years of the late 1970s and '80s. He did it with style, too. Blessed with a fast bowler's temperament and fire, he surrounded his craft with mystique. Before the 1982 tour to England, captain Imran Khan asked him to grow a French beard to enhance the aura and it worked: England were his favourite victims through his career, responsible for his international breakthrough in 1977-78 as well as his finest hours, at the Oval in 1987 and the home series later that year (he took 30 wickets in three Tests, including the best bowling in an innings by a Pakistani, 9 for 56 in Lahore). Imran was to be a key influence on his career, one of the few capable of getting the best out of Qadir the man and bowler.

Qadir's action was a wonderfully extravagant routine, and he admitted more than once that it was contrived as a spectacle to distract batsmen. Variety was the key; it was said he had six different deliveries per over. Like the Andy Roberts bouncer, Qadir was said to have two different googlies. The flipper was often equally lethal though much often depended not on his ability but on mood.

Rarely was the mood right against India, whose batsmen were largely untroubled by him. On Pakistan's historic 1987 tour, when they won a series in India for the first time, Qadir was largely ineffective for four Tests before being dropped for the final. Iqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed, orthodox spinners both, were far more effective and led Pakistan to victory. But for every India, there was a West Indies and that Pakistan were able to compete with the era's most frighteningly dominant team without losing a series to them in the mid-80s was largely down to Qadir's successes against them.

Qadir's appetite for the fight could not be questioned and it often came out in his batting. He played a few combative Test innings and some vital ODI ones, once taking 16 off Courtney Walsh's last over to win a World Cup tie. He faded away from the scene, however, in the early 90s with the emergence of Mushtaq Ahmed and played his last ODI in 1993. Since then he has run a private academy near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore and his four sons have followed him into the game, with varying degrees of success, but his role in Mushtaq's rise and, to a lesser extent, that of Danish Kaneria should not be overlooked. In November 2008 Qadir was given licence to contribute more directly once again to Pakistan cricket when he was appointed the chief selector, but he resigned after a little over six months in the job.

It is impossible to believe that wrist-spin has ever been bowled better than Qadir did in his home city of Lahore in 1987-88, when he took 9 for 56 against England. Graham Gooch, who faced him that day, said Qadir was even finer than Shane Warne, to whom he passed on the candle.

Abdul Qadir Khan

Ramizs Lounge - Shoaib Malik, Abdul Qadir (Part 2/6)

Abdul Qadir in action

Wednesday 26 October 2011

Mohammad Moin Khan

Mohammad Moin Khan Biography
Mohammad Moin Khan (Urdu: محمد معین خان) (born September 23, 1971) popularly known as Moin Khan (Urdu: معین خان) is a Pakistani cricketer (wicketkeeper and batsman) and member of the Pakistani national cricket team since 1990. He has also captained the Pakistani side. He was born in Rawalpindi, Punjab. He made his international debut against the West Indies at Multan. He has taken over 100 catches in Test cricket. He has scored over 3,000 ODI runs and taken over 200 catches in ODI cricket. He is the credited with coining the name of the mystery delivery of Saqlain Mushtaq that went from leg to off as the doosra. It means the \"other one\" in Urdu. He is no longer part of the national side, and has returned to playing first class cricket. In 2005 Moin scored the first century in Pakistan domestic 20-20 cricket when he smashed 112 off 59 balls for Karachi Dolphins against Lahore Lions in the ABN-AMRO 20-20 Cup. At the end of the season he retired from cricket finishing with 200 not out against Hyderabad, his highest first class score. In January 2007 he was arrested in Pakistan for assaulting his wife, Tasneem Khan.[1] In 2007, Moin signed with the unofficial Indian Cricket League and coached the Hyderabad Heroes. In the 2008 edition of the competition he coached the expansion team, the Lahore Badshah

Mohammad Moin Khan

Moin Khan 31* of 12 Vs Australia 1999 World Cup

Moin Khan Smokes Andrew Flintoff for Huge SIXES