Showing posts with label Pakistan cricket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan cricket. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi

Full name       : Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi
Born              : May 28, 1974, Mianwali, Punjab
Current age    : 38 years 119 days
Major            : teams Pakistan, Khan Research Labs, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sargodha
Playing role    : Middle-order batsman
Batting style   : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Legbreak

The most remarkable aspect about Misbah-ul-Haq is his unflappable temperament. It shows in his batting, which reached unprecedented levels of consistency in 2011, and in his captaincy, which helped lift Pakistan from the depths of the spot-fixing saga in England in 2010. Taking over as leader immediately after that episode at the age of 36, Misbah's calm approach was exactly what Pakistan cricket needed after the tumultuous period it had gone through.

Saeed Ajmal

Full name           : Saeed Ajmal
Born                  : October 14, 1977, Faisalabad, Punjab
Current age        : 34 years 346 days
Major teams      : Pakistan, Dhaka Gladiators, Faisalabad, Islamabad Cricket Association, Khan Research Labs, Water and Power Development Authority, Worcestershire
Playing role        : Bowler
Batting style       : Right-hand bat
Bowling style      : Right-arm offbreak

A modern-day offspinner who relies on the doosra as much as on other variations of flight and speed, Saeed Ajmal made a relatively late entry into international cricket, at the age of 30, but is doing his best to make up for lost time, quickly moving up to be regarded among the best spinners in the game today. Ajmal didn't play his first Test till almost 32, but showed immediately that he belonged, taking five wickets in his debut Test against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2009.

Shahid Afridi

Full name          : Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born                 : March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age       : 32 years 207 days
Major teams      : Pakistan, Asia XI, Deccan Chargers, Dhaka Gladiators, Fly Emirates XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, Hampshire, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire, Melbourne Renegades, South Australia
Playing role      : Allrounder
Batting style     : Right-hand bat
Bowling style   : Legbreak googly
Relation Brother - Tariq Afridi, Brother - Ashfaq Afridi

Of Shahid Afridi it can safely be said that cricket never has and never will see another like him. To say he is an allrounder is to say Albert Einstein was a scientist; it tells a criminally bare story.