Best Cricket Palyer 2012

Monday 30 July 2012

Abdul Razzaq

Abdul Razzaq Biography

Abdul Razzaq (Urdu: عبد الرزاق, born 2 December 1979) is a Pakistani right arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed batsman, who is currently representing the Pakistan cricket team. He emerged in international cricket in 1996, when he made his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe at his home ground in Gaddafi Stadium in Pakistan, a month before his seventeenth birthday. He has played over 200 ODIs and nearly 50 Tests for Pakistan.Originally a fast bowler, Razzaq's batting has improved throughout the years and he has been recognized as an all-rounder.[1] He is best known in cricket as an aggressive batsman and has the ability to score quick runs.[2] This versatility has given him the talent of batting and bowling at every position on the team. He is also one of Pakistan's most effective hitters of the cricket ball.[3]
Despite his qualities, he has been criticized by some, for his batting techniques in Test matches.[who?] Another being that he averages almost 37 with the ball. However he has excelled in the One Day International arena, with several excellent performances. He is also an accurate fast bowler who has been successful against the batting opposition. Razzaq claims to have learned many things while playing under former captain Wasim Akram during the 1990s and early 2000.[4] One of the things that he learned, was his quick-arm bowling action, which makes it hard for the batsman to predict at what speed the ball is going to be delivered.

Abdul Razzaq

Abdul Razzaq 88 vs India 2nd ODI 2005

Abdul Razzaq
Abdul Razzaq 60 vs Australia World Cup 1999 HQ

Monday 9 July 2012

Mohammad Younis Khan

Mohammad Younis Khan Biography
Mohammad Younis Khan (born November 29, 1977 in Mardan, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan) is a Pakistani cricketer and current captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. Younis' name is often spelled Younus Khan.He is only the third Pakistani player to score 300 or more runs in an innings. Younis Khan made his international debut in an ODI against Sri Lanka at Karachi in February 2000, and has since played over 150 ODIs for Pakistan. He has also played in over 50 Test matches. Younis was one of the few batsmen who retained his place in the team after Pakistan's disastrous World Cup campaign in 2003, but lost it soon after due to a string of poor scores in the home series against Bangladesh and South Africa. He came back for the one-day series against India, but failed to cement a place in the Test side. It was his return to the side in October 2004, at the pivotal one-down, against Sri Lanka in Karachi that laid the groundwork for his emergence as a force in Pakistan cricket. He was the top run-getter in the disastrous 3-0 whitewash in Australia immediately after and on the tour of India, for which Younis was elevated to vice-captain, he blossomed. After a horror start to the series he came back strongly, capping things off with 267 in the final Test. It was his highest Test score and came off 504 balls in the first innings, to set up a series levelling victory in Bangalore. As well as being an accomplished batsman, Younis is also a skilled slip fielder and a very occasional leg-spin bowler. He has performed particularly well outside Pakistan, including on tours of Australia, India, England and Sri Lanka. In the six Tests he has played against India, Younis averages an exceptional 106, the highest average against India by a Pakistani. Apart from his 267 at Bangalore, Younis also made 147 at Kolkata in 2005 and a pair of centuries during India's trip to Pakistan in 2006. More importantly, the tour to India also showcased his potential as a future captain of Pakistan and his energetic and astute leadership has impressed many people. Also in 2006, Younis made a century in the third Test against England at Headingley. On 22 January 2007, he scored a matchwinning 67 not out in the 4th innings to guide Pakistan to victory over South Africa in Port Elizabeth. The five wicket win levelled the series at 1-1. In 2005, he was one of the 15 nominees for the ICC Test Player of the Year. He is the second fastest Pakistani in terms of innings to reach 4000 Test runs, behind Javed Miandad. Younis reached the milestone in 87 innings, just one more than Sachin Tendulkar took. Younis Khan's highest position in the LG ICC's Test Batting Rankings is third, which he achieved after the third test against England in 2006. His ranking score of 856 is the fourth highest achieved by a Pakistani batsmen after Mohammad Yousuf (933), Javed Miandad (885) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (870). Younis Khan made his first 300 against Sirilanka in 24 Feb 2009.

Mohammad Younis Khan

Younis Khan 101(109)-England vs Pakistan 3rd ODI 2006 at Southampton

Younis Khan 200* Vs Bangladesh 2011 HD

SOHAIL TANVIR

SOHAIL TANVIR BIOGRAPHY

The Rawalpindi born allrounder made his first-class debut against Peshawar in October 2004 but failed to impress with bat or ball. However, in their second match against Multan, Sohail Tanvir scored an unbeaten 97, having three windows, but has only played 17 games from first class (a total of 19 in three seasons).

Tanvir has established itself as a versatile bike and hitting his unbeaten 124 (his second century of first class) in 2007 pentangular Cup match against Sind further established that point. He also represented Pakistan Academy on their tour of Bangladesh and its good performance and complete the tour against Australia A in the ODI series at home made the selectors to name him as the replacement Shoaib Akhtar in the inaugural World ICC Twenty20. The decision was a surprise, however, as Tanvir had not taken a wicket in the ten games he had played Twenty20.

SOHAIL TANVIR

HD Sohail Tanvir 3 Wickets For 12 Runs Vs Sri Lanka (Pak vs Sl 1st T20I , 1st,Jun,2012)

Sohail Tanvir 4-53 vs India 5th ODI 2007

Mohammad Sami

Mohammad Sami born 24 February 1981) is a Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket who is currently representing the Pakistan cricket team in Test cricket and Twenty20 cricket matches. He use to represent Pakistan in ODI's but was dropped from the squad in 2007 after an unimpressive world cup campaign.International career
Sami, initially known as the modern Malcolm Marshall by Imran Khan, made his Test cricket debut against New Zealand in 2001 by taking 8 wickets for 106 runs in the match. This was a world record for the most wickets by a debutante. During his third Test match he achieved a hat-trick against Sri Lanka and in 2002 he took his second hat-trick in his career, against the West Indies during a One Day International match. This led to him becoming one of only a two bowlers in cricket(The other who was wasim akram) to achieved this mark in both forms of the game . He also became one of two Pakistan bowlers to have taken a hat-trick in both Test cricket and One Day International matches,the other being fast bowler Wasim Akram. He also displayed excellent performances against Zimbabwe and New Zealand in 2003. On 1 December 2003, he achieved his best bowling figures in One Day International cricket by taking 5 wickets for 10 runs during a match. Earlier in April during that year in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, he had taken 4 wickets for 25 runs against Kenya during the match. Sami played his 50th One Day International match against India at Lahore in Pakistan on 24 March in 2004. He has also taken over 100 wickets in First-class cricket and in List A cricket.
Sami is regarded as one of the fastest bowlers in cricket and has the ability to swing the cricket ball at high pace. He has unofficially bowled the fastest delivery in cricket when he clocked at 164 km/ph (101.9 mph) during a One Day International match. However, it was revoked by cricket officials after it found faulty speed measurements on the speed metre. But despite his talent, he has been in and out of the national side for several times. However he has received support from former Pakistan captain Imran Khan, who sees Sami's speed and wicket taking ability as an important skill for the Pakistan team.

Sami also earned the ignominy of bowling the longest over in One Day International cricket during the Asia Cup match against Bangladesh in 2004, when he bowled 17 balls in one over which consisted of seven wides and four no balls.He is also the only bowler in Test cricket history to have over 50 wickets and a bowling average of 50.

After losing form and failing to achieved success for the Pakistan cricket team, the Pakistan Cricket Board and its national selectors replaced Sami for the One Day International series against England with fast bowler Mohammad Asif, however he was recalled for the series against South Africa in January and February in 2007. He was selected in the 15 man Pakistan squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, although he was named as one of five reserves.After team mates Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were dropped from the World Cup squad ,since neither of the two had been declared fit and they had not undergone official doping tests, Sami and Yasir Arafat were called up as replacements.

Sami joined the Indian Cricket League following the tour of India in December 2007. He played for the Lahore Badshahs, a team composed entirely of Pakistani cricketers, during the Indian Premier League's second Twenty20 tournament. His participation in the league meant that he, like many other Pakistan players, he was banned from representing his country at both international level and domestic cricket in Pakistan.

In 2009-2010, he was recalled back to the Pakistan team and on the 3 January 2010, during Pakistan's Test match series against Australia, he played at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia and took 3 wickets for 27 runs in the first innings of the second Test match. On the 19 April he was selected in the Pakistan squad as a replacement for the injured fast bowler Umar Gul, in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament to be held in the West Indies. In July 2010 it was rumoured that he would join Essex as replacement overseas player for Danish Kanaria who joined the Pakistan touring party for tests against Australia and England. Sami was recalled and played against South Africa in the middle east in November 2010. However since then Sami has not been selected - Pakistan have been picking right arm medium pace bowler Tanvir Ahmed effectively in his place.

Mohammad Sami

mohammad sami 3 wickets and hattrick chance vs australia 2010 2nd test sydney

Mohammad Sami
Mohammad Sami 3 Wickets For 16 Runs Vs Sri Lanka

Fawad Alam

Fawad Alam Biography

Fawad Alam (born October 8, 1985 in Karachi) is a Pakistani first class cricket. He is primarily a left-handed batsman but bowls left arm orthodox slow hand. His father Tariq had a long career of class in Pakistan. Making his first class debut at the age of 17, played for Pakistan Customs and Karachi Fawad. He impressed enough to be selected to play in World Cup U-19, who won Pakistan. Fawad appeared in the domestic 2006-07 season, finishing as top scorer in the fifth-highest career Trophy Quaid-e-Azam.

It took a long 5 foot in the Twenty20 Cup final which earned him Man of the Match and was also named Man of the Series, Best Batsman and Best Bowler. After disappointing World Cup campaign Pakistan, Alam was recruited by a squad of men 16 years to one day international series against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi. His ODI debut in the third was to forget, was captured and shot by a ball Dilhara Fernando duck.His first few seconds of an international day was a better experience, since he contributed unbeaten 32 races down the order as Pakistan defeated India by 31 runs in Jaipur. Between these two parties, traveled to South Africa as part of the selection for the tournament in Pakistan 2007 ICC World Twenty20.

Fawad Alam

Fawad Alam 168 on debut - Part

Fawad Alam
Fawad Alam's Nikaah & Reception

Ahmed Shehzad

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.

Ahmed Shehzad

Adnan Akmal

Adnan Akmal Biography
The third Akmal brother to make it to the national squad, Adnan has shown that he can keep just as well or maybe better than his brother Kamran but his batting skills are not as comprehensive as possessed by his siblings.
Adnan Akmal first represented his country as a young talent in the Under-17 Pakistan squad. He went on to play for several other clubs in the domestic circuit including the Lahore Lions, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited and the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited. As enthusiastic as his brother Kamran behind the stumps, Adnan got his first chance at the international circuit against South Africa in the UAE. His opportunity came when the existing keeper for the tour, Zulqarnain Haider, went suspiciously missing.
The man from Lahore has made his presence felt at the international circuit and he will want to keep pushing for a more permanent spot as a specialist keeper within the national team.
Fast Facts
Prized Hashim Amla as his first victim behind the stumps.
Adnan became only the seSpan:
Test: 2010-2011
Test
Debut:
Pakistan Vs South Africa at Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium, Dubai - Nov 12, 2010
Last played:
Pakistan Vs New Zealand at Basin Reserve, Wellington - Jan 15, 2011cond Pakistani wicket-keeper to take 6 catches in an inning in a Test.

Adnan Akmal

Adnan Akmal

Adnan Akmal tries to Cheat Kevin Pietersen Cricket Fight

Adnan Akmal got 5 catches Vs New zealand (1st day of the test)