Abdul Razzaq

Abdul Razzaq

Pakistan

Full name Abdul Razzaq
Born December 2, 1979, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 27 years 89 days
Major teams Pakistan, ACC Asian XI, Khan Research Labs, Lahore, Middlesex, Pakistan International Airlines
Also known as Abdur Razzaq
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	46	77	9	1946	134	28.61	4741	41.04	3	7	230	23	15	0
ODIs	229	197	49	4449	112	30.06	5559	80.03	2	22	333	103	30	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	2	1	27	17*	27.00	22	122.72	0	0	5	0	0	0
First-class	105	163	25	4620	203*	33.47			8	22			27	0
List A	276	237	56	5471	112	30.22			2	29			40	0
Twenty20	12	11	2	327	63	36.33	218	150.00	0	2			3	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	46	7008	3694	100	5/35	7/155	36.94	3.16	70.08	4	1	0
ODIs	229	9737	7606	245	6/35	6/35	31.04	4.68	39.74	8	3	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	36	58	3	3/30	3/30	19.33	9.66	12.00	0	0	0
First-class	105	16749	9852	301	7/51		32.73	3.52	55.64		10	2
List A	276	12089	9612	317	6/35	6/35	30.32	4.77	38.13	11	3	0
Twenty20	12	258	329	15	3/30	3/30	21.93	7.65	17.20	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Australia v Pakistan at Brisbane - Nov 5-9, 1999
Last Test	Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006
ODI debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Lahore - Nov 1, 1996
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 14, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	England v Pakistan at Bristol - Aug 28, 2006
Last Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 2, 2007
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1996/97 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2006/07

Profile

Abdul Razzaq was once rapid enough to open the bowling and remains composed enough to bat anywhere, though 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. But it is his batting that is more likely to win matches. He boasts a prodigious 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 Razzaq gets bogged down, although patience is his virtue as he demonstrated in a match-saving fifty against India in Mohali in 2005. Just prior to that he had also played a bewilderingly slow innings in Australia, scoring four runs in over two hours. When the occasion demands it though, as ODIs often do, he can still slog with the best of them: England were pillaged for a 22-ball 51 at the end of 2005. and then again for nearly 60 runs in the last three overs of an ODI in September the following year.

It has hardly been smooth sailing though through his career. He suffered a slump, particularly in his bowling, between 2002 and 2004 when, though his place in the team wasn't under threat, there was uncertainty over how best to use him. But there have been signs recently that he is rediscovering some of his old guile if not his pace and nip. And if the pitch is in anyway helpful to seam - as it was in his first and only Test five-wicket haul at Karachi in 2004 or against India at the same venue in January 2006 - he can be a proper danger. Though Kamran Akmal's hundred overshadowed all in the Karachi win over India, Razzaq's performance was easily his most emphatic as an allrounder: he scored 45 and 90 as well as taking seven wickets in the match. Since then, a combination of injuries and poor form have called his Test place into question. He missed the Test series against South Africa with an injury and looked terribly rusty in the ODI thumping thereafter, something which Pakistan will hope he can shed before the 2007 World Cup. Early in his career he promised to be Pakistan's most complete allrounder since Imran Khan, and though for a variety of reasons he hasn't translated that into achievement, his country wouldn't mind having just a very solid allrounder.