Wahab Riaz

Wahab Riaz Biography
A stocky left arm fast medium bowler who has represented Pakistan in 5 one day internationals. 4 of the 5 matches he has played in have been against ether Zimbabwe or Bangladesh but his first real test came against India where he had a bit of a nightmare and was carted around in his 9.2 pvers before being removed from the attack for bowling 2 beamers.
Wahab is a bowler who is still learning the game and steadily improving. He has the ability to bowl some pretty sharp deliveries in the mid 140kph and generally seams the ball rather than swinging it. Wahab also bowls a fine bouncer and with experience will improve. He had a fine match in the recently concluded Pentangular trophy final versus Federal Areas when he was playing for Punjab, taking 5 wickets for 44 runs.
Wahab's future at international level depends a lot on his rate of improvement and the injury situation and general fitness of bowlers like Umer Gul, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer, etc.
Wahab was selected for Pakistan tour of England where he sat out in first 4 games, however, as time went Umar Gul got injured during the series which made way for Wahab. In his first test appearance Wahab took 5 wickets and conceded 63 runs in 18 overs. In his first test match Wahab showed brilliant performance by swinging the ball both ways at a sharp pace which caused trouble for English batsman

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Saeed Ajmal

Saeed Ajmal Biography
Saeed Ajmal made his International debut at an unusual age of 30, during the 2008 Asia Cup. He was included in the Pakistani squad in a crucial encounter against India in which he bowled 10 overs at an economy rate of 4.70. Ajmal picked up his first international wicket when he sent Yusuf Pathan home for a 'duck' in the same game. The veteran spinner would have been more than thankful when he finally received the 'big break' after being overlooked by the Pakistani selectors for over a decade through which he served the domestic circuit picking up over 230 first class wickets in 72 matches including fifteen 5-wicket hauls.
Saeed Ajmal made an immediate impression with his subtle variations, fearless to use the doosra. But his career took off with a series of ODI performances that confused Australia in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, he gave away few runs and his doosra was nigh-on unreadable. The ICC called him for his action, though it was cleared soon after. The pressure didn't get to him and immediately after, he played a vital role in Pakistan's drive to the 2009 World Twenty20 title, regularly bottling up the middle overs with Shahid Afridi. He ended the joint second-highest wicket-taker in the tournament, with an exemplary economy rate as batsmen around the world struggled to pick a big turning doosra or even cope with his changes in flight, pace and angle. Consistent performances in the ODI version have quickly earned him a reputation for choking the runs in the middle overs with clever variations.

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Saeed Ajmal Wickets

Saeed Ajmal 10 wickets against West Indies

Younis Khan

Younis Khan Biography

Younis Khan is fearless, as befits his Pathan extraction and will forever be remembered as the second Khan to bring home a world title for Pakistan: Younis was Pakistan's captain in the 2009 World Twenty20, leading a successful campaign with stark similarities to the one Imran Khan had led 17 years earlier. Younis retired from the format straight after, a stylish and imposing gesture from a complex but honest man.Though Younis was one of the few batsmen who retained his place in the team after Pakistan's devastating World Cup campaign in 2003, he 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. He is among the better fielders in Pakistan and he took a world-record four catches in one innings as substitute during Pakistan's destruction of Bangladesh in the 2001-02 Asian Test Championship.But until his return to the side in October 2004, he wasn't a fixture.

At the pivotal one-down, against Sri Lanka in Karachi, a century 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 a match-winning 267 in the final Test. He credits the late Bob Woolmer, to whom he was close, for the turnaround in his career.He blotted his book by suddenly resigning from the captaincy in Inzamam's absence for the Champions Trophy 2006, only to return a day later and lead a scandal-afflicted side to a disappointing first round exit. He was the favourite to take over the captaincy after Pakistan's ignominous World Cup ouster in 2007 but he turned it down, citing mental strain and decided to honour his commitment with Yorkshire by making himself unavailable for Pakistan. In January 2009, however, the PCB came calling a third time, after Pakistan's ruinous home ODI series against Sri Lanka, and appointed him ca ptain in place of Shoaib Malik. Within a few months, with the Twenty20 win, Younis was looking a natural leader.

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

Younis Khan 117 v India - 2nd ODI - 2007

Umar Gul

Umar Gul Biography  
The least-hyped but most successful and solid Pakistan pace product of the last few years, He had played just nine first-class matches when called up for national duty in the wake of Pakistan's poor 2003 World Cup. On the flat tracks of Sharjah, Gul performed very well, maintaining excellent regulation and getting appreciable outswing with the new ball.Umar Gul is one Pakistan fast bowler who has earned a good reputation in the past few years.. Gul isn't in the Shoaib Akhtar mould in terms of pace, but his outstanding control and skill to extort seam movement single him out. Also, his height facilitates him to extract bounce on most surfaces and from his natural back of a length, it is a valuable trait. Unluckily, that was his last cricket of any kind for over a year as he discovered three stress fractures in his back immediately after the Test. The injury would have ended many an international career, but Gul returned, fitter and sharper than before in late 2005.
He returned in a Pakistan shirt against India in the ODI series at home in February 2006 and in Sri Lanka showed further signs of treatment by lasting both Tests but it was really the second half of 2006, where he fully came of age. Leading the attack against England and then the West Indies as Pakistan's main bowlers suffered injuries, Gul stood tall, finishing Pakistan's best bowler.Since then, as Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar have floundered, Gul has become Pakistan's front line bowler and one of the best fast bowlers in the world. He is smart enough and good enough to succeed in all three formats and 2009 proved it: he put together a patch of wicket-taking in ODIs, on dead pitches in Tests (including a career-best six-wicket haul against Sri Lanka) and established himself as the world's best Twenty20 bowler, coming on after the initial overs and firing in yorkers on demand.

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Best of Umar Gul World Cup 2011

Umar Gul to V. Sehwag (Ind Pak Semi)

Abdul Razzaq

Abdul Razzaq Biography
Abdul Razzaq was once quick enough to open the bowling and remains composed enough to bat anywhere, he is discovering that the lower-order suits him nicely. His bowling - the reason he was first noticed - is characterised by a galloping approach, accuracy, and reverse-swing.He is the youngest bowler who take a hat-trick, against Sri Lanka in 2000, aged 20. But it is his batting that is more likely to win matches. He boasts a extraordinary array of strokes and is particularly strong driving through cover and mid-off off both front and back foot.
He has two gears: block or blast. Cut off the big shots and he gets bogged down, although patience is his virtue as he demonstrated in a match-saving fifty against India in Mohali in 2005. After a global amnesty and quitting the ICL, he was welcomed back to the Pakistan crease for the World Twenty20 in England and made an instant impact as Pakistan won the tournament.

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Abdul Razzaq 62 runs from 30 balls; 3 fours and 5 sixes! part 1 of 2

Abdul Razzaq 47 Runs off 11 Balls VS England at Nottingham 2005

Ahmed Shehzad

Ahmed Shehzad Biography
Ahmed Shehzad aim to be an attacking batsman like Ricky Ponting and Virender Sehwag, and he is well on his line of attack in top-order performance for Pakistan Under-19s are any indication. He made his first-class debut in Jan 07, just two months after his 15th birthday, and has since recognized himself as an opening batsman for the U-19 team.
He score 167 in the same year help him to Pakistan chase down a stiff 342 in the first Youth Test against England in Derby. He backed that up with inspiring performance at home, score 315 runs - with a highest of 105 - as Australia Under-19s were thrashed 5-0. Another century follow in the Youth Test against Bangladesh, and he conceded for triangular series in Sri Lanka in 2008, which Pakistan won.

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Ahmed Shehzad : Great Shots

Kamran Akmal

Kamran Akmal Biography
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Full name : Kamran Akmal
Born : January 13, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Major teams : Pakistan, Asia XI, Lahore, Lahore Blues, Lahore City, Lahore Eagles, Lahore Lions, National Bank of Pakistan, Punjab Stallions, Rajasthan Royals
Playing role : Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Fielding position : Wicketkeeper
Kamran Akmal may well be the most emphatic proof of cricket's changed priorities post Adam Gilchrist. Sides now search for an explosive batsman who can change a day, an innings, a phase with the bat and so long as you can identify right wicketkeeping glove from left, the place is yours. There has been little doubt about Akmal's batting. The purity of his drives and the strength of his cutting and pulling, particularly on slower subcontinent surfaces, has always held a strong allure. And when it comes together as it did one January morning in Karachi against India - one of the Test innings of that decade - he makes it in the side as a batsman alone.
But his glovework, which began so promisingly when he effectively ended the dogfight between Rashid Latif and Moin Khan in late 2004, has deteriorated alarmingly and few Pakistan matches are complete without a clumsy Akmal error.It wasn't always thus, for he was good when he began, good enough to impress Ian Healy. But non-stop cricket in all three formats have let technical errors creep in and critics and experts have long pushed for the need for him to take a break.
To quality spin, he is often as lost as the batsmen and Danish Kaneria, over the years, has suffered in particular. In a string of error-ridden performances, the one nobody will forget will be the four dropped catches (and a missed run-out) in the Sydney Test of 2009-10, which allowed Australia to escape with a remarkable, traumatic win. Against this the memory of his Karachi hundred will always battle, with no clear winner ever likely to emerge. The tryst with controversy does his cause no good, with his refusal to accept his demotion from the side in the aftermath of a disastrous Sydney Test in 2009, eliciting a harsh fine and a disciplinary probation from the PCB.
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