pakistani cricket player

Thursday 1 March 2012

Salman Butt

Salman Butt Biography
Salman Butt, a Pakistani batsman, was born on October 7, 1984 in Lahore. He opens the batting in both Test and One Day Internationals (ODI). He is a hard working batsman, who does not indulge in many big hits. He is well-known for his wristy strokes and employs superb wristwork to angle the bat and guide the ball into gaps. Being an accumulator, Salman Butt scores most of his runs between backward point and extra cover, and he also has the ability to cut the ball very fine, down to third man.
Salman Butt started his cricketing career by playing for the Pakistan Under-17 national team, and soon progressed to Under-19 level. He secured a place in the Pakistan A squad for the match against England when he was only 16 due to his performance in his first match for Lahore Whites. He made his first international Test appearance in a match against Bangladesh on September 3, 2003 in Multan. He made his presence felt in the Test series against England in 2005 by scoring a century and two half-centuries. As of June 2008 he has played a total of 19 Tests and has scored 1047 runs, his highest score being 122.
On September 22, 2004 Salman Butt made his ODI debut in a match against West Indies in Southampton at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy. His first ODI half-century came in a match against Sri Lanka at the Paktel Cup. On November 13, 2004 in a match against India, Salman Butt inspired Pakistan to victory by scoring an unbeaten 108, despite having to miss seven overs due to cramps. He has played 57 ODIs and has amassed 2154 runs, his highest being 136 as of June 2008.
Salman Butt made his International Twenty20 (IT20) debut against Bangladesh in Nairobi on September 2, 2007 and has played eight IT20 matches as of 2008.
Salman Butt has played a total of 66 First-class and 112 List-A matches, his best being 290 and 136, respectively. He played his first Twenty20 match at the domestic level on April 26, 2005, against Sialkot Stallions, and has played a total of twenty four Twenty20 matches.
Owing to his performances, Salman Butt was included in the Kolkata Knight Riders team at the 2008 Indian Premier League (IPL) and played seven matches for the team, scoring 193 runs at a strike rate of 119.87, his highest being 73 scored against Chennai Super Kings.

Salman Butt

Imran Nazir

Imran Nazir Biography
IMRAN NAZIR (Punjabi: عمران نذیر) (born 16 December 1981) is a Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches.Nazir made his debut in Test cricket on March 1999, against Sri Lanka at Lahore in Pakistan and a few days later, he made his One Day International debut against the same opposition at Visakhapatnam in India. He played in 8 Test matches between 1999–2002 and secured a spot in the Pakistan squad since 2002. He also played in One Day International arena, but he could never cement his place in the squad. The emergence of several Pakistan opening batsmen such as Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Taufeeq Umar and Salman Butt kept him out of the national side. However he displayed excellent cricketing performances in First class cricket.In Twenty20 games he has an extraordinary bowling average of 1.00 and in his 8 deliveries he has 3 wickets a strike rate of less than 3. He has also played for Dhaka Dynamites in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Bangladesh.

Imran Nazir

Javed miandad

Javed miandad Biogrphy

Javed Miandad's full name is Mohammad Javed Miandad. He was born on June 12, 1957 in Karachi. Miandad is among the top cricket players in history. He is also regarded as Pakistan's greatest ever batsman. Javed had played 124 Tests and 233 one day international cricket matches.
His highest score was 280 not out vs India. His fame touched the skies after hitting the winning six on the last ball of the match Sharjah against the Indian bowler.

Javed miandad

Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis Biography
Waqar Younis Maitla is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler born in Vehari Punjab. He is one of the top ten cricketers of all time and got worldwide fame. He is well known in cricket for his ability to “reverse swing a cricket ball” at high speed while bowling at cricket pitch. During his career he took “373 Test Wickets” and “416 One Day International Wickets”. Waqar Younis is considered as one of the best exponents of swing bowling delivery. He has a best strike rate for any bowler with more than “200 Test Wickets”

Waqar Younis

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Muhammad Asif

Muhammad Asif Biography

Mohammad Asif (Urdu: محمد آصف, born 20 December 1982) is a Pakistani right-arm fast medium bowler in cricket. Asif was born in Sheikhupura, and has played first-class cricket for Khan Research Labs, the National Bank, Quetta, Sheikhupura, Sialkot and Leicestershire. He made his Test match debut for the Pakistan cricket team against Australia in January 2005.
On 20 July 2010, Asif was ranked second leading Test bowler, just behind Dale Steyn.[1]
In 2006, there was a cricket controversy involving Asif, after he tested positive for anabolic steroid, Nandrolone, before having a ban imposed on him overturned on appeal. He was later withdrawn from Pakistan's World Cup squad with an unrelated injury. Further cricket controversy followed when he was detained in Dubai suspected of having drugs on his person and was then found to have tested positive for a banned substance during the Indian Premier League. In August 2010 he was accused by the News of the World of deliberately bowling no-balls in return for payment from a betting syndicate.[2] On 5 February 2011 a 3-man tribunal, appointed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) gave the verdict that he was to be banned for 7 years, with 2 of those suspended if no further offences were committed. In November 2011, Asif was convicted, along with Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir, of conspiracy charges relating to spot-fixing. On 3 November 2011, Asif was given a one-year prison sentence for his role in the scandal.

Muhammad Asif