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Monday, 20 October 2014

Ahmed Shehzad

Ahmed Shehzad Biography

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Ahmed Shehzad aims to be an aggressive batsman like Ricky Ponting, and he is well on his way if his top-order performances for Pakistan Under-19s are any indication. Shehzad made his first-class debut in January 2007, just two months after his 15th birthday, and has since established himself as an opening batsman for the U-19 team. His 167 in the same year helped Pakistan chase down a stiff 342 in the first Youth Test against England in Derby. He backed that up with impressive performances at home, scoring 315 runs - with a highest of 105 - as Australia Under-19s were thrashed 5-0. Another century followed in the Youth Test against Bangladesh, and he carried that form into the triangular tournament in Sri Lanka in 2008, which Pakistan won. He made it to the Pakistan Test squad for the home series against Sri Lanka the following year despite not being in the probables. A century in the tour game against the visitors changed his fortunes. He returned to the Under-19 circuit to represent Pakistan in the World Cup in New Zealand.

Career statistics

Test debut

Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Abu Dhabi, Dec 31, 2013 - Jan 4, 2014 scorecard

Last Test

Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), Aug 14-18, 2014 scorecard

Test statistics

ODI debut

Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Apr 24, 2009 scorecard

Last ODI

Australia v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Oct 12, 2014 scorecard

ODI statistics

T20I debut

Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), May 7, 2009 scorecard

Last T20I

Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Oct 5, 2014 scorecard

T20I statistics

First-class debut

Lahore Shalimar v Karachi Harbour at Lahore, Jan 24-27, 2007 scorecard

Last First-class

Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), Aug 14-18, 2014 scorecard

List A debut

Pakistan Cricket Board XI v South Africans at Lahore, Oct 16, 2007scorecard

Last List A

Australia v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Oct 12, 2014 scorecard

Twenty20 debut

Lahore Lions v Quetta Bears at Lahore, Oct 4, 2008 scorecard

Last Twenty20

Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Oct 5, 2014 scorecard

Ahmed Shehzad

Mohammad Yousuf

Mohammad Yousuf Biography

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Mohammad Yousuf (formerly Yousuf Youhana, born 27 August 1974, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani cricketer who has been a member of the Pakistani national cricket team since 1998. He is best known for his achievement in 2006 when he broke the great West Indian batsman, Sir Vivian Richards', world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year. Prior to his conversion to Islam in 2005, Yousuf was one of the few Christians to play in the Pakistan national cricket team. He made his Test debut against South Africa at Durban and ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare. He has scored over 9,000 ODI runs at an average of 43.63 (2rd highest batting average among Pakistani batsmen after Zaheer Abbas and 6,770 Test runs at an average of 55.49 (highest batting average among st all Pakistani batsmen) with 23 Test centuries. He has the record of scoring the most runs without being dismissed in ODIs, 405 against Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe in 2002-03. He has also scored a 23-ball fifty in ODIs, and a 68-ball hundred. In Tests he has scored a 27-ball fifty, which is 3rd fastest by any player. He was top scorer during the successive years of 2002 and 2003 in the world in ODIs. In 2004, he scored a memorable 111 against the Australians in the Boxing Day Test. In December 2005, he scored 223 against England at Lahore, also earning him the man of the match award. Seven months later in July 2006, when Pakistan toured England, he scored 202 and 48 in the first Test, again earning himself the man of the match award. He followed up with 192 in the third Test at Heading and 128 in the final Test at the Oval. Yousuf was named CNN-IBN.s Cricketer of the Year for 2006, ahead of the likes of Australian captain Ricky Ponting, West Indies Brian Lara, Australian spinner Shane Warne, South Africa.s bowling spearhead Makhaya Ntini and Sri Lanka.s Muttiah Muralitharan. He was selected as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 2007 edition. Yousuf became the fourth recipient of the ICC 'Test Cricketer of the Year' award for 2007, he scored 944 runs at an average of 94.40 including five centuries and two fifties in just 10 innings and that was enough to be awarded the honour ahead of Kevin Pietersen and Ricky Ponting. Yousuf was also named in the 2007 Test team of the Year alongside compatriot Mohammad Asif. A year that started on a promising note, Yousuf carried it forward to break two world records both held earlier by West Indian great Sir Vivian Richards. The 32-year-old smashed an unparalleled 1788 runs in just 11 Test matches with the help of nine centuries . his second record . taking him beyond the W indies great yet again. Yousuf is known for his ability to score runs at exceptional rate through his great technique and composed stroke-play. Although capable of hitting the ball hard, Yousuf is quick between the wickets, although he is prone to being run out. Yousuf is a skillful infielder, with a report prepared in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the ninth highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman. He is also distinguished by his characteristic celebration after hitting one hundred runs for his country, where he prostrates in thankfulness to Allah in the direction of Mecca. He has observed this act (known as the Sajdah) recently since his conversion to Islam.
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Lahore Badshahs, Lancashire, Pakistan International Airlines, Warwickshire, Water and Power Development Authority, Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm off-break
Mohammad Yousuf Profile

Until his conversion to Islam in 2005, Mohammad Yousuf (formely known as Yousuf Youhana) was one of a handful of Christians to play for Pakistan. After a difficult debut against South Africa in 1997-98, he quickly established himself as a stylish world-class batsman, and a pillar of Pakistan's middle order, alongside Inzamam-ul-Haq. He is no sluggard, but gathers his runs through orthodox, composed strokeplay, unlike some of his colleagues who seldom hint at permanence. He is particularly strong driving through the covers and flicking wristily off his legs and brings with him as decadent and delicious a backlift as any in the game. A tendency to overbalance when playing across his front leg can get him into trouble. He excels at both versions of the game, and in one-day cricket can score 20 or 30 runs before anyone notices. He is quick between the wickets although not necessarily the best judge of a single. There had been questions about his temperament as batsman when the pressure is on, but between 2004 and 2005, he began to silence critics. First came a spellbindingly languid century against the Australians in Melbourne, as captain to boot, where he ripped into Shane Warne like few Pakistani batsmen have before or since. A century in the cauldron of Kolkatta followed but he ended the year with possibly his most important knock: a double century against England at Lahore so easy on the eye, you almost didn't notice it. With Inzamam missing through injury for parts of the innings, Yousuf displayed an unusual responsibility, eschewing the waftiness that has previously blighted him. In 2006, Yousuf truly came of age in a record-breaking year. He began by plundering India and continued in England, not just scoring under pressure, but scoring big. A double ton at Lord's was followed by another big hundred at Headingly and the Oval. He rounded off a fantastic year with four hundreds in three Tests against the West Indies, a feat that took him past Viv Richards's long-standing record of most Test runs in a calendar year and also saw him establish the record for most Test hundreds (9) in a year. With Inzamam nearing a natural end, the credentials of Yousuf as Pakistan's premier batsman are impressive.
He changed his name from Yousuf Youhana on converting to Islam in September 2005
Teams: Pakistan (Test: 1997/98-2010); Pakistan (ODI: 1997/98-2010/11); Asian Cricket Council XI (ODI: 2004/05-2007); Pakistan (Int Twenty20: 2006-2010); Bahawalpur (Main FC: 1996/97); Water and Power Development Authority (Main FC: 1997/98-2009/10); Lahore City (Main FC: 1997/98); Lahore Blues (Main FC: 2000/01); Pakistan International Airlines (Main FC: 2001/02); Lahore (Main FC: 2003/04); Lancashire (Main FC: 2008); Lahore Shalimar (Main FC: 2010/11); Warwickshire (Main FC: 2011); Bahawalpur (Main ListA: 1996/97); Pakistan International Airlines (Main ListA: 1999/00-2001/02); Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (Main ListA: 2002/03); Lahore (Main ListA: 2003/04); Water and Power Development Authority (Main ListA: 2007/08-2008/09); Lancashire (Main ListA: 2008); Lahore Lions (Main ListA: 2010/11); Warwickshire (Main ListA: 2011); Lahore Lions (Main Twenty20: 2004/05-2011); Islamabad Leopards.
English County Update: Mohammad Yousuf got out after scoring 109-smashing 13 fours and 1 SIX for Warwickshire against Worcestershire, on a poor pitch. Yousuf, defying a treacherous pitch quite unsuited for this level of cricket, gave a masterful demonstration of batting to record the 30th century of his first-class career. Well Done MoYo!
Mohammad Yousuf offered Sajda after he scored his maiden County century.
Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 90 156 12 7530 223 52.29 14372 52.39 24 33 957 51 65 0
ODIs 288 273 40 9720 141* 41.71 12942 75.10 15 64 785 90 58 0
T20Is 3 3 0 50 26 16.66 43 116.27 0 0 5 1 1 0
First-class 141 239 20 10505 223 47.96 30 51 84 0
List A 338 322 47 11026 141* 40.09 15 75 70 0
Twenty20 23 20 2 357 57* 19.83 322 110.86 0 1 37 8 9 0
Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 90 1 6 3 0 - - - 3.00 - 0 0 0
ODIs 288 2 2 1 1 1/0 1/0 1.00 3.00 2.0 0 0 0
T20Is 3 - - - - - - - - - - - -
First-class 141 18 24 0 - - - 8.00 - 0 0 0
List A 338 8 13 1 1/0 1/0 13.00 9.75 8.0 0 0 0
Twenty20 23 1 1 1 0 - - - 6.00 - 0 0 0
International Debut: 1998
Batting and fielding records
M Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Test 90 156 12 7530 223 52.29 14372 52.39 24 33 957 51 65 -
ODI 289 273 40 9670 141* 41.50 12861 75.19 15 63 783 89 56 -
T20I 3 3 0 50 26 16.67 43 116.28 - - 5 1 1 -

Bowling records
M Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Eco SR 4W 5W 10W
Test 90 1 6 3 - - - - 3.00 - - - -
ODI 289 2 2 1 1 1/0 1/0 1.00 3.00 2.00 - - -
T20I 3 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Career Statistics
Test Debut: South Africa v Pakistan at Durban, 26 Feb - 02 Mar 1998
ODI Debut: Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Harare, Mar 28, 1998
Twenty20 Debut: England v England at Bristol, Apr 28, 2006
Mohammad Yousuf is a pillar of Pakistan batting squad setting many records in cricket history. An orthodox middle order batsman, Yousuf is next to none in his style of batting. Although a perfect Test personality, he is equally successful in one-day internationals.

Mohammad Yousuf, formerly known as Yousuf Youhana made a difficult
Test Career Batting and Fielding (1997/98-2010)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 SRate Ct
Pakistan 90 156 12 7530 223 52.29 24 33 52.39 65
Test Career Bowling (2000/01)
Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 5wI 10wM SRate Econ
Pakistan 6 0 3 0 0-3 3.00
First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (1996/97-2011)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct
Overall 141 239 20 10505 223 47.96 30 51 84
First-Class Career Bowling (1997/98-2001/02)
Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 5wI 10wM SRate Econ
Overall 18 0 24 0 0-3 8.00
One-Day International Career Batting and Fielding (1997/98-2010/11)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 SRate Ct
Pakistan 281 267 40 9554 141* 42.08 15 62 74.91 55
Asian Cricket Council XI 7 6 0 166 66 27.66 0 2 87.83 3
Overall 288 273 40 9720 141* 41.71 15 64 75.10 58
One-Day International Career Bowling (2004-2006/07)
Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 4wI 5wI SRate Econ
Pakistan 2 0 1 1 1-0 1.00 0 0 2.00 3.00
One-Day Career Batting and Fielding (1996/97-2011)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct
Overall 338 322 47 11026 141* 40.09 15 75 70
One-Day Career Bowling (2001/02-2006/07)
Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 4wI 5wI SRate Econ
Overall 8 0 13 1 1-0 13.00 0 0 8.00 9.75
International Twenty20 Career Batting and Fielding (2006-2010)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 SRate Ct
Pakistan 3 3 0 50 26 16.66 0 0 116.27 1
Twenty20 Career Batting and Fielding (2004/05-2011)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 SRate Ct
Overall 23 20 2 357 57* 19.83 0 1 110.86 9
Twenty20 Career Bowling (2006/07)
Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 4wI 5wI SRate Econ
Overall 1 0 1 0 0-1 6.00
Recent matches
Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
35 Lahore Lions v R Rams Faisalabad 30 Jun 2011 Twenty20
5 Lahore Lions v Hawks Faisalabad 29 Jun 2011 Twenty20
18 Lahore Lions v Leopards Faisalabad 27 Jun 2011 Twenty20
13 Lahore Lions v S Stallions Faisalabad 25 Jun 2011 Twenty20
0, 0 Warwickshire v Durham Birmingham 24 May 2011 First-class
74* Warwickshire v Durham Birmingham 22 May 2011 List A
27 Warwickshire v Notts Nottingham 18 May 2011 First-class
0* Warwickshire v Leics Leicester 15 May 2011 List A
109, 68 Warwickshire v Worcs Birmingham 11 May 2011 First-class
72 Warwickshire v Northants Northampton 8 May 2011 List A
Profile
This much is at least certain that few Pakistani batsmen have been as elegant as Mohammd Yousuf and fewer still have been as prolific, as hungry to bat as long and bat as big.

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Imran Farhat

Imran Farhat Biography

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A gifted young left-handed opener who threatened at one stage to solve Pakistan's perennial opening conundrum, Imran Farhat had a brief spell in the Pakistan side after success with the national under-19 and A sides. Farhat also evokes Saeed Anwar but only fleetingly; he bludgeons rather than times his runs. He was rather too cavalier in his early appearances in the Test arena, and was promptly discarded after the tour to New Zealand in 2000-01. However, he tightened his game and achieved much more success in the 2003-04 season. Tempering his impressive array of shots with better defensive technique, Farhat scored a deluge of runs in the home series against South Africa and New Zealand, being involved in a record four successive hundred partnerships with Yasir Hameed in the one-day internationals against New Zealand. He also notched up his first century in both Tests and ODIs during this season, and then went on to score a vital 101 in Pakistan's victory against India in the Lahore Test. But since the India series, he has fallen away. A mediocre series at home to Sri Lanka and away to Australia saw him falter, especially with the emergence of the other left-handed opener, Salman Butt. When Pakistan included only one specialist opener in the squad for the series against England in 2005 - Butt - seemingly it confirmed that Farhat, temporarily, was out of national reckoning. But as an opener in Pakistan, you are never out of national reckoning and sure enough Farhat was back for the final Test against India, where he scored a fifty. That performance saw him on the plane to Sri Lanka and an average series. But with openers becoming as rare as dinosuars in Pakistan, he was retained for the summer tour to England, where he again produced some mixed results. Despite failures in the first two Tests, a broken finger and a spate of dropped catches, he came back to score a cavalier 91 in the final, fateful Oval Test. Runs against West Indies at home were followed by a barren patch in South Africa. A first away hundred followed by a patient half-century in the Napier Test of 2009 has set him up for a long sojourn in the Test side. His ODI career has however hit roadblocks since he was dropped after an indifferent run of scores in 2006.

Career

Farhat made his senior debut aged 15 in a one-day match for Karachi City against Malaysia, together with three other players who went on to play Test cricket (Taufeeq Umar, Bazid Khan and Kamran Akmal). Three years later, in February 2001, Farhat made his One Day International debut, against New Zealand in Auckland, scoring 20 runs in a chase of 150 to win. After the tour of New Zealand, where Farhat played three Tests and three ODIs, he was sent back to domestic cricket before returning against Australia in the third Test of the 2002–03 series, where he made 30 and 22 in an innings defeat. However, he was retained for the home two-Test series against South Africa in 2003–04, where he scored 235 runs including a maiden Test century in a 1–0 series win, second behind fellow opener Taufeeq Umar.
A month later, Farhat played in an ODI-only series against New Zealand, which Pakistan won 5–0, and Farhat made three fifties along with his second international century, ending with 348 runs at a batting average of 69.60, once again the second-highest amount of runs – this time behind Yasir Hameed. The season was rounded off with another century, this time against India, where he made 101 to help Pakistan gain a 202-run first-innings lead and eventually won the match by nine wickets. However, Farhat tallied 81 runs in the other two matches, which Pakistan lost to lose the series 1–2.
Farhat was less impressive the following season, however, and in four Tests, two against Sri Lanka and two against Australia, he only passed fifty twice, ending the season with 199 runs at 24.87 before the selectors left him out for the third Test of the series with Australia. In September 2004, just before the 2004–2005 season, he had been dropped from the ODI side following the 2004 Champions Trophy, as he had failed to pass 40 with any of his last ten innings, and that included 38 not out against the non-Test nation of Kenya, 20 against ODI debutants Hong Kong and 24 against Bangladesh.
He continued to score heavily in the domestic competitions and a century in a practise game against the visiting Indian team was rewarded with a place in the squad to take on India in the Test series (2006). He returned to Test cricket in style, with an important half century in the deciding third Test at Karachi. He scored a brilliant unbeaten century in the final test against New Zealand in 2009. His brother Humayun Farhat has also played International cricket for Pakistan.
Career statisticsTest debut New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Mar 8-12, 2001 scorecardLast Test South Africa v Pakistan at Centurion, Feb 22-24, 2013 scorecardTest statistics
ODI debut New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Feb 17-18, 2001 scorecardLast ODI Pakistan v South Africa at Birmingham, Jun 10, 2013 scorecardODI statistics
T20I debut Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, Feb 5, 2010 scorecardLast T20I Bangladesh v Pakistan at Dhaka, Nov 29, 2011 scorecardT20I statistics
First-class debut 1998/99Last First-class National Bank of Pakistan v Habib Bank Limited at Islamabad, Jan 22-25, 2014 scorecardList A debut 1997/98Last List A National Bank of Pakistan v Habib Bank Limited at Islamabad, Jan 27, 2014 scorecardTwenty20 debut Karachi Dolphins v Lahore Lions at Lahore, Apr 25, 2005 scorecardLast Twenty20 Faisalabad Wolves v Lahore Eagles at Rawalpindi, Feb 11, 2014 scorecardRecent matchesBat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard23 L Eagles v Wolves Rawalpindi 11 Feb 2014 T202 L Eagles v P Panthers Rawalpindi 10 Feb 2014 T204 L Eagles v Leopards Rawalpindi 7 Feb 2014 T202 Habib Bank v National Bnk Islamabad 27 Jan 2014 LA40, 59 Habib Bank v National Bnk Islamabad 22 Jan 2014 FC0/28, 10 Habib Bank v ZTBL Lahore 19 Jan 2014 LA1/29, 0* Habib Bank v ZTBL Lahore 14 Jan 2014 FC0 Habib Bank v Pakistan TV Lahore 11 Jan 2014 LA300*, 2/4 Habib Bank v Pakistan TV Lahore 6 Jan 2014 FC0/11, 35 Habib Bank v Sui Gas Lahore 3 Jan 2014 LAProfileA gifted young left-handed opener who threatened at one stage to solve Pakistan's perennial opening conundrum, Imran Farhat had a brief spell in the Pakistan side after success with the national under-19 and A sides. Farhat also evokes Saeed Anwar but only fleetingly; he bludgeons rather than times his runs. He was rather too cavalier in his early appearances in the Test arena, and was promptly discarded after the tour to New Zealand in 2000-01. However, he tightened his game and achieved much more success in the 2003-04 season. Tempering his impressive array of shots with better defensive technique, Farhat scored a deluge of runs in the home series against South Africa and New Zealand, being involved in a record four successive hundred partnerships with Yasir Hameed in the one-day internationals against New Zealand. He also notched up his first century in both Tests and ODIs during this season, and then went on to score a vital 101 in Pakistan's victory against India in the Lahore Test. But since the India series, he has fallen away. A mediocre series at home to Sri Lanka and away to Australia saw him falter, especially with the emergence of the other left-handed opener, Salman Butt. When Pakistan included only one specialist opener in the squad for the series against England in 2005 - Butt - seemingly it confirmed that Farhat, temporarily, was out of national reckoning. But as an opener in Pakistan, you are never out of national reckoning and sure enough Farhat was back for the final Test against India, where he scored a fifty. That performance saw him on the plane to Sri Lanka and an average series. But with openers becoming as rare as dinosuars in Pakistan, he was retained for the summer tour to England, where he again produced some mixed results. Despite failures in the first two Tests, a broken finger and a spate of dropped catches, he came back to score a cavalier 91 in the final, fateful Oval Test. Runs against West Indies at home were followed by a barren patch in South Africa. A first away hundred followed by a patient half-century in the Napier Test of 2009 has set him up for a long sojourn in the Test side. His ODI career has however hit roadblocks since he was dropped after an indifferent run of scores in 2006.

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