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Michael Kasprowicz

2007-03-01T14:52:00.000+05:30

Michael Kasprowicz

Australia

Full name Michael Scott Kasprowicz
Born February 10, 1972, South Brisbane, Queensland
Current age 35 years 19 days
Major teams Australia, Essex, Glamorgan, Leicestershire, Queensland
Nickname Kasper
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 1.94 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	38	54	12	445	25	10.59	966	46.06	0	46	3	16
ODIs	43	13	9	74	28*	18.50	89	83.14	0	6	1	13
Twenty20 Int.	2	1	1	3	3*	-	5	60.00	0	0	0	2
First-class	237	319	74	4342	92	17.72			11			95
List A	220	106	40	955	40	14.46			0			47
Twenty20	9	8	2	71	31	11.83	61	116.39	0			3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	38	7140	3716	113	7/36	8/92	32.88	3.12	63.18	4	4	0
ODIs	43	2225	1674	67	5/45	5/45	24.98	4.51	33.20	1	2	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	42	57	5	4/29	4/29	11.40	8.14	8.40	1	0	0
First-class	237	48551	25042	944	9/36		26.52	3.09	51.43		51	6
List A	220	10790	7769	293	5/45	5/45	26.51	4.32	36.82	8	3	0
Twenty20	9	192	240	10	4/29	4/29	24.00	7.50	19.20	1	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v West Indies at Brisbane - Nov 22-26, 1996
Last Test	South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Mar 31-Apr 4, 2006
ODI debut	Australia v West Indies at Melbourne - Dec 19, 1995
Last ODI	England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13, 2005
First-class span	1989/90 - 2005/06
List A span	1989/90 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2005/06

Profile

Michael Kasprowicz seems to have been smiling appeals forever. As a 17-year-old he studied Western Australia's top order on Queensland debut in 1989-90 while his schoolmates were sitting final exams, and continued to pop up in unexpected places. Like India. A swing bowler who learned to weave outswingers on Gabba greentops, Kasprowicz matured into a subcontinental specialist with reverse-swing, heavy cut and a this-isn't-too-hot-for-another-over attitude. He bravely carried an injury-hit attack struck by Navjot Sidhu and Sachin Tendulkar in 1997-98, popped back in 2001 and returned in 2004 to help end India's 35-year hold. After three years mostly spent refining his efficient yet aggressive action with Queensland and Glamorgan, Kasprowicz celebrated his fifth recall in 2004 with 13 matches, his longest Test run. During the wildly successful year the prongs of McGrath, Gillespie and Kasprowicz were so sharp that Brett Lee ran their refreshments.

To call Kasprowicz a workhorse is unflattering even though the description matches his size - he was an Australian Schoolboys rugby forward - and stamina. Regularly clocked faster than his new-ball counterparts (excluding Lee) from a shorter run, Kasprowicz's angle and dart-perfect line causes constant headaches for left-handers in the style of Paul Reiffel, another under-rated third wheel. He has become an important clean-up or go-to man and only four times in 2004 did he leave an innings without a wicket as he collected 47 victims. An intimidating and muscular presence at county and state level - he often broke bones in England and peer pressure from Pura Cup batsmen hurried his Test and one-day returns - Kasprowicz became Queensland's leading wicket-taker in 2003-04.

Popular and cheerful off the field, `Kasper' has experienced the lows of being 12th man for Queensland's first Sheffield Shield win in 1994-95, waiting five months and three Tests for his first wicket and completing a regular do-si-do for a national place with his best man Andy Bichel. However, his greatest miss came during the 2005 Ashes series when his courageous 59-run partnership with Brett Lee at Edgbaston ended three short of victory. After adding 20 he gloved a contentious catch behind and England levelled the series 1-1. Returning from that tour on the outer, he responded with 44 Pura Cup wickets for The Bulls and was recalled for the trip to South Africa, where he and Lee reversed their Birmingham nightmare with a 19-run stand that earned a nail-biting two-wicket victory.

Simon Katich

2007-03-01T14:49:00.000+05:30

Simon Katich

Australia

Full name Simon Mathew Katich
Born August 21, 1975, Middle Swan, Western Australia
Current age 31 years 192 days
Major teams Australia, Durham, Hampshire, New South Wales, Western Australia, Yorkshire
Nickname Kat
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm chinaman
Height 1.82 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	23	38	3	1260	125	36.00	2548	49.45	2	8	155	3	15
ODIs	45	42	5	1324	107*	35.78	1926	68.74	1	9	138	4	13
Twenty20 Int.	3	2	0	69	39	34.50	47	146.80	0	0	8	2	2
First-class	153	262	34	11314	228*	49.62			30	60			142
List A	186	180	21	6172	136*	38.81			7	48			85
Twenty20	12	11	3	374	59*	46.75	299	125.08	0	2			5

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Tests	23	659	406	12	6/65	6/90	33.83	3.69	54.91	0	1
ODIs	45	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0
Twenty20 Int.	3	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0
First-class	153	4973	2986	78	7/130		38.28	3.60	63.75		3
List A	186	823	766	24	3/21	3/21	31.91	5.58	34.29	0	0
Twenty20	12	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	England v Australia at Leeds - Aug 16-20, 2001
Last Test	Australia v West Indies at Brisbane - Nov 3-7, 2005
ODI debut	Australia v Zimbabwe at Melbourne - Jan 21, 2001
Last ODI	Australia v West Indies at Kuala Lumpur - Sep 24, 2006
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Feb 24, 2006
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1995/96 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2006/07

Notes

State Player of the Year - 2004

Profile

For Simon Katich 2005-06 was the most difficult season of his career. Lost from the Test radar after being bamboozled by Muttiah Muralitharan in the Super Series and failing against West Indies, he spent the rest of the summer clinging to his one-day spot ahead of Phil Jaques and Matthew Hayden. But as he sat in the Gabba's gymnasium after his first ODI century helped Australia to a come-from-behind victory in the VB Series finals, he knew he'd survived. "It's one thing I've managed to do this summer - hang in there," he said. The sleepless nights could stop for a while. Despite being the pyjama side's third-highest run-scorer in Australia last summer, Katich also knows the top of the limited-overs order, a vacancy he has filled since being touted as a World Cup opener in 2004-05, will not be a safe seat. As Adam Gilchrist's rockets launch in the first 15 overs, Katich deflects arrows and absorbs punches as he follows the team management plan. His batting is not pretty or powerful and he may not be many young boys' role model, but the side recognises his importance as a vital role player, especially in a top-order crisis.

A batting backlog is blocking a Test return and at 30 Katich faces a fight against the clock to add to his 23 matches. Ever since he was included in Western Australia's state squad in 1994-95 he looked destined for bigger things. His talents were on show in 1998-99 when he amassed 1039 first-class runs, including 115 in the final won by Western Australia, and earned a spot on the tour to Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Katich was on the brink of a Test call-up in Sri Lanka when he contracted chicken pox and was quarantined. Unable to free himself of a virus that overcame him in the wake of that illness, he was forced to sit out much of the 1999-2000 domestic summer, but after a stellar 2000-01 - 1282 first-class runs and a century against every state - he was picked for the 2001 Ashes tour. Replacing the injured Steve Waugh for the fourth Test, he made 15 and 0 not out on debut and had to wait two years for an opportunity against Zimbabwe, when his occasional left-arm chinaman bowling was surprisingly effective. He took 6 for 65 in the second innings in Sydney, which is now his home after switching to New South Wales and accepting the captaincy. Returning to the SCG later in the summer against India, he registered his maiden Test century and helped to ensure Waugh's final Test ended in a draw instead of a loss.

Dropped for the first two matches in Sri Lanka in 2004, he was elevated to Ricky Ponting's place at No. 3 in India later that year and played with an eerie calmness. The highlight and lowlight came in the same innings - his 99 in the third-Test victory at Nagpur. His good form continued in Australia's tour of New Zealand in 2005 when a silky hundred in the first Test was overshadowed by yet another violent innings from Gilchrist, but his elegant display sealed his spot for a second Ashes tour. The troubles of the past year began in England when he was upset by the reverse-swing and was downgraded to a one-day only role shortly after returning home.

Brett Lee

2007-03-01T14:47:00.000+05:30

Brett Lee

Australia

Full name Brett Lee
Born November 8, 1976, Wollongong, New South Wales
Current age 30 years 113 days
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Nickname Bing
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Height 1.87 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	59	65	13	1098	64	21.11	1962	55.96	3	132	15	17
ODIs	150	68	27	739	57	18.02	901	82.01	2	37	22	35
Twenty20 Int.	3	2	1	58	43*	58.00	41	141.46	0	5	2	0
First-class	94	108	20	1644	79	18.68	2963	55.48	5			28
List A	179	84	35	848	57	17.30			2			39
Twenty20	3	2	1	58	43*	58.00	41	141.46	0			0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	59	12279	7300	231	5/30	8/123	31.60	3.56	53.15	11	7	0
ODIs	150	7729	6048	267	5/22	5/22	22.65	4.69	28.94	11	6	0
Twenty20 Int.	3	60	72	1	1/26	1/26	72.00	7.20	60.00	0	0	0
First-class	94	18862	10844	392	7/114		27.66	3.44	48.11		16	2
List A	179	9300	7129	305	5/22	5/22	23.37	4.59	30.49	12	6	0
Twenty20	3	60	72	1	1/26	1/26	72.00	7.20	60.00	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v India at Melbourne - Dec 26-30, 1999
Last Test	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2007
ODI debut	Australia v Pakistan at Brisbane - Jan 9, 2000
Last ODI	Australia v England at Sydney - Feb 11, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Feb 24, 2006
First-class span	1994/95 - 2006/07
List A span	1997/98 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2005/06

Notes

Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year - 2000
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006

Profile

If Brett Lee were a Ferrari ... No. There is no if. He is already the fastest in the world, equal with Shoaib Akhtar at a flicker above or below 100mph, and always seems on the verge of striking a body or a wicket. At the 2003 World Cup, during which he took a ferocious hat-trick against Kenya, Lee was a polished star, while Shoaib was a novelty act. It was the same in the 2004-05 VB Series - Lee's pace was blinding; Shoaib's was hamstrung. When Lee releases the throttle and begins that smooth acceleration, the spectator stays his drinking hand. The leaping, classical delivery may produce a devastating yorker, a devilish slower ball or a young-Donald outswinger. Add a dash of peroxide, a fruity vocabulary, a trademark jump for joy, a stylish bat, a streak of sadism when bowling at tailenders, a pop group (Six And Out), and an endearing dedication to a job at a gentleman's outfitters, and you have the 21st century's first designer cricketer - not to mention a priceless pin-up boy.

While Steve Waugh unleashed him in a dramatic opening of 42 wickets in seven Tests before an elbow operation, Ricky Ponting gave Lee a blueprint for lasting success that didn't rely solely on bouncers or yorkers. "The way that Ricky has captained my personal bowling over the last couple of years has just been brilliant," he said early in 2006. "Going back two or three years, I wasn't really sure what they wanted me to do." Lee's next statistical goals are 250 wickets and an average below 30, while status as an allrounder is another wish.

Lee's career hasn't always been easy. He struggled against accusations of throwing, bean balls, stress fractures and other injuries, and had a strangely barren first Ashes series in 2001. Three years later he U-turned from ankle surgery, but was stuck in the pits of the dressing room as he ran drinks and sponges in nine consecutive Tests. He returned to the fold for the 2005 Ashes series and earned plaudits for his never-say-die attitude and brave performances with both bat and ball. He nearly pulled off a win for Australia with a battling 43 at Edgbaston, but his partner-in-crime Michael Kasprowicz fell at the contentious final hurdle. Andrew Flintoff's consoling of Lee seconds after the catch was 2005's defining image.

Lee's 2006 brightened further when he partnered Kasprowicz in a nail-biting win over South Africa that eased the pain of the previous near-miss. It was an important summer as he assumed the role of attack leader when Glenn McGrath first struggled for impact and then pulled out of tours to South Africa and Bangladesh to care for his sick wife. Lee moved into the position he had craved since crashing on to the Test scene with 5 for 47 against India, and he celebrated 89 international wickets for the season with lawnmower, hunting and leaping celebrations. A summer later he earned 20 wickets in the Ashes series and was on track for the World Cup before suffering an ankle injury in New Zealand.

Stuart MacGill

2007-03-01T14:45:00.000+05:30

Stuart MacGill

Australia

Full name Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill
Born February 25, 1971, Mount Lawley, Perth, Western Australia
Current age 36 years 4 days
Major teams Australia, Devon, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Western Australia
Nickname Mac
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 1.83 m
Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	40	45	11	347	43	10.20	702	49.43	0	38	2	16
ODIs	3	2	1	1	1	1.00	3	33.33	0	0	0	2
First-class	171	203	53	1522	56*	10.14			2			72
List A	107	41	19	171	26	7.77			0			22
Twenty20	5	2	1	13	8*	13.00	11	118.18	0			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	40	10211	5387	198	8/108	12/107	27.20	3.16	51.57	9	12	2
ODIs	3	180	105	6	4/19	4/19	17.50	3.50	30.00	1	0	0
First-class	171	38053	21528	728	8/108		29.57	3.39	52.27		41	6
List A	107	5228	4347	193	5/40	5/40	22.52	4.98	27.08	10	4	0
Twenty20	5	104	144	6	3/42	3/42	24.00	8.30	17.33	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v South Africa at Adelaide - Jan 30-Feb 3, 1998
Last Test	Bangladesh v Australia at Chittagong (CDS) - Apr 16-20, 2006
ODI debut	Australia v Pakistan at Sydney - Jan 19, 2000
Last ODI	Australia v India at Adelaide - Jan 26, 2000
First-class span	1993/94 - 2006/07
List A span	1997 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003

Profile

The praise lavished on his decision to boycott Zimbabwe in 2004 because of moral concerns continued an unwelcome pattern in the life of Stuart MacGill: he has long generated headlines for being out of the Australian team rather than for his performances in it. An old-fashioned operator with a gargantuan legbreak and majestic wrong'un, MacGill has the best strike-rate and worst luck of any modern spin bowler. His misfortune has been to play alongside Shane Warne in an age when Australia, the land of Grimmett and O'Reilly, have paradoxically frowned on the concept of fielding two wrist-spinners at once. After showing they could work in tandem with 13 wickets against Pakistan at Sydney in 2005, MacGill hoped - almost pleaded - for more double-act opportunities. Playing seven matches in 2005-06, he dismantled the World XI with nine victims and probably waved goodbye to overseas touring life in taking 16 wickets in the two-game series against Bangladesh.

MacGill has stayed philosophical throughout his career, eagerly running in and invariably running amok. He bewitched 53 wickets in 11 Tests during Warne's 12-month drugs ban in 2003-04, yet was maligned for bowling one boundary-ball per over; a shade unfairly, considering that was the standard modus operandi for all leggies pre-Warne. A batting duffer and increasingly feckless fielder, he has played only three one-day internationals despite collecting his domestic scalps at a stupefying rate of one every 27 balls. Unusually for a bowler, MacGill seldom smiles upon taking a wicket. Instead he lets out a roar of accomplishment. "People ask me why I don't smile - it's because it's really hard," he explained in 2003-04. "Test cricket's hard ... I'll take a wicket and there'll be an explosion of emotion." It is one of MacGill's many quirks. He is a wine connoisseur who only recently learned to enjoy the taste of beer, and he once read 24 novels on a tour of Pakistan. The son and grandson of West Australian state players, he socialises with friends who aren't cricketers and is often portrayed as a thinker, a misfit, the odd man out. It is something he plays down - although, tellingly, no other Australian cricketer felt compelled by their conscience to stand out of touring Zimbabwe. Australia's next scheduled Test trip is to Zimbabwe in 2007 and MacGill's mind has not changed.

Glenn McGrath

2007-03-01T14:44:00.000+05:30

Glenn McGrath

Australia

Full name Glenn Donald McGrath
Born February 9, 1970, Dubbo, New South Wales
Current age 37 years 20 days
Major teams Australia, ICC World XI, Middlesex, New South Wales, Worcestershire
Nickname Pigeon, Millard
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 1.95 m
Education Narromine Primary; Narromine High School

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	124	138	51	641	61	7.36	1570	40.82	1	51	1	38
ODIs	239	68	38	115	11	3.83	236	48.72	0	7	0	36
Twenty20 Int.	2	1	0	5	5	5.00	12	41.66	0	0	0	1
First-class	189	193	67	977	61	7.75			2			54
List A	292	78	43	123	11	3.51	268	45.89	0			46
Twenty20	2	1	0	5	5	5.00	12	41.66	0			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	124	29248	12186	563	8/24	10/27	21.64	2.49	51.95	28	29	3
ODIs	239	12485	8034	355	7/15	7/15	22.63	3.86	35.16	9	7	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	48	79	5	3/31	3/31	15.80	9.87	9.60	0	0	0
First-class	189	41759	17414	835	8/24		20.85	2.50	50.01		42	7
List A	292	15209	9586	432	7/15	7/15	22.18	3.78	35.20	15	7	0
Twenty20	2	48	79	5	3/31	3/31	15.80	9.87	9.60	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v New Zealand at Perth - Nov 12-16, 1993
Last Test	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2007
ODI debut	Australia v South Africa at Melbourne - Dec 9, 1993
Last ODI	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 18, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13, 2005
First-class span	1992/93 - 2006/07
List A span	1992/93 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2005

Notes

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1998
Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year 1999
Allan Border Medal 2000
Test Player of the Year - 2000
One-Day International Player of the Year - 2001
Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year 2005-06

Profile

The young Glenn McGrath was described by Mike Whitney as "thin - but Ambrose-thin, not Bruce Reid-thin". Much later, Mike Atherton compared McGrath to Ambrose on a vaster scale. Catapulted from the outback of New South Wales into Test cricket to replace Merv Hughes in 1993, McGrath became, after a faltering start, the great Australian paceman of his time. And after passing Courtney Walsh's 519 wickets in the 2005 Super Test only Dennis Lillee threatens his title as the greatest Australian fast man of all time. His obituary has been prepared a few times - he was doubted after coming back in 2004 from ankle surgery and there were similar fears following a long lay-off to care for his wife two years later - but he wrote his own farewell by retiring from Tests on his home ground. Apart from bowing out with a 5-0 Ashes win, he walked of the SCG with a wicket from his final ball to capture his 563th victim. The World Cup will be his last tour as an international before he becomes a full-time Dad.

McGrath bowled an unremitting off-stump line and an immaculate length, gained off-cut and bounce, specialised in the opposition's biggest wickets - especially Atherton's and Brian Lara's - was unafraid to back himself publicly in these key duels, and showed himself to be unusually durable. He was a batting rabbit who applied himself so intently that while playing for Worcestershire he won a bet with an Australian team-mate by posting a fifty. The work eventually paid off in Tests when he made 61, the third-highest score by a No. 11, against New Zealand in 2004-05. Only in his occasional fits of ill-temper did he fail himself.

He rewrote the World Cup record-books in 2003 with 7 for 15 against the outclassed Namibians, on his way to adding another winner's medal to a bulging collection. An ankle injury threatened to derail his quest for 500 Test wickets, but after briefly contemplating retirement he bounced back with yet another five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka at Darwin in July 2004. Three months later, at Nagpur, he became the first fast bowler to play 100 matches in the baggy green, and his greatness was further confirmed when knocking down the brittle Pakistanis at Perth with 8 for 24, the second-best figures by an Australian.

Adept at picking his moments, he chose the first day at Lord's to reach 500 and his subsequent ankle and arm injuries were crucial to Australia losing the series. The following summer was also painfully disrupted with the reoccurrence of his wife Jane's cancer, which called for immediate treatment and McGrath's full attention. He pulled out of the VB Series finals as well as tours to South Africa and Bangladesh, but he returned to help Australia reclaim the urn.

Damien Martyn

2007-03-01T14:42:00.000+05:30

Damien Martyn

Australia

Full name Damien Richard Martyn
Born October 21, 1971, Darwin, Northern Territory
Current age 35 years 131 days
Major teams Australia, Leicestershire, Western Australia, Yorkshire
Nickname Marto
Playing role Higher middle order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height 1.81 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	67	109	14	4406	165	46.37	8569	51.41	13	23	513	10	36	0
ODIs	208	182	51	5346	144*	40.80	6877	77.73	5	37	441	22	69	0
Twenty20 Int.	4	4	0	120	96	30.00	74	162.16	0	1	11	5	1	0
First-class	204	343	46	14630	238	49.25			44	73			158	2
List A	297	264	64	8567	144*	42.83			10	60			102	0
Twenty20	5	5	0	156	96	31.20	93	167.74	0	1			3	0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	67	348	168	2	1/0	1/4	84.00	2.89	174.00	0
ODIs	208	794	704	12	2/21	2/21	58.66	5.31	66.16	0
Twenty20 Int.	4	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	204	3365	1563	37	4/30		42.24	2.78	90.94
List A	297	1549	1300	41	3/3	3/3	31.70	5.03	37.78	0
Twenty20	5	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v West Indies at Brisbane - Nov 27-Dec 1, 1992
Last Test	Australia v England at Adelaide - Dec 1-5, 2006
ODI debut	Australia v West Indies at Sydney - Dec 8, 1992
Last ODI	Australia v West Indies at Mumbai (BS) - Nov 5, 2006
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Feb 24, 2006
First-class span	1990/91 - 2006/07
List A span	1991/92 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2005/06

Notes

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2002
Walter Lawrence Trophy 2003
Test Player of the Year - 2005

Profile

No contemporary cricketer, Tendulkar aside, made batting look so simple as Damien Martyn. But it was not always thus. For the brash 21-year-old who waltzed into the Australian team at Dean Jones's expense, batting was an exercise in extravagance. To defend was to display weakness - a policy that backfired in 1993-94 when Martyn's airy square-drive at a crucial moment in Sydney triggered a five-run defeat by South Africa and a seven-year hitch to his own promising career. By the time Western Australia, wanting a pretty face to spearhead their marketing campaign, had made him captain at 23, Martyn looked a tormented man. All the more remarkable, then, that he blossomed into a relaxed, classical, feathery artist. He was an elastic fieldsman and an old-style batsman whose first movement was back. He played with a high elbow, a still head, a golfer's deft touch, and had all the shots, including perhaps the most brutal reverse-sweep in the game.

Mostly, though, Martyn stuck to the textbook and composed pristine hundreds which, like the feats of the best wicketkeepers, passed almost unnoticed: an observation supported by the curious fact that, despite a Test average in the fifties, he reached the age of 30 without winning a Man-of-the-Match award. He was the quiet man of the 2003 World Cup-raising side, too, playing a minor role until he spanked 88 not out in the final - with a broken finger that later kept him out of a West Indian tour. His magnificent 13-month streak of 1608 Test runs at 61 and two Man-of-the-Series prizes from March 2004 finally moved him from the dressing-room shadows to the more uncomfortable limelight. Showing his hard-earned versatility, he crafted seven centuries on surfaces ranging from raging turners in Sri Lanka and India to green seamers in New Zealand and the hard bounce of home.

The flood ended in England and following a series of 178 runs and a couple of horrid umpiring decisions he was the major casualty of the Ashes loss. Retaining a one-day spot, he expected his five-day days were over - "If that's my last Test match, well, I've had a great time" - but was reprieved when the selectors wanted experience for the South Africa tour. As the decision to ignore policy by looking back to a 34 year old became increasingly doubtful, Martyn repaid with a nerveless 101 that led to victory in the final Test. After being a key part in Australia's first Champions Trophy success, he struggled in the opening two Tests of the Ashes series and swiftly retired.

Ricky Ponting

2007-03-01T14:39:00.000+05:30

Ricky Ponting

Australia

Full name Ricky Thomas Ponting
Born December 19, 1974, Launceston, Tasmania
Current age 32 years 72 days
Major teams Australia, ICC World XI, Somerset, Tasmania
Nickname Punter
Playing role Higher middle order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height 1.78 m
Education Mowbray Primary; Brooks Senior High School, Launceston

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	110	183	25	9368	257	59.29	15890	58.95	33	36	1059	57	124
ODIs	269	263	31	9856	164	42.48	12385	79.58	22	58	845	121	117
Twenty20 Int.	5	5	1	178	98*	44.50	110	161.81	0	1	14	9	3
First-class	205	345	50	17750	257	60.16			66	71			208
List A	336	330	43	12034	164	41.93			25	73			148
Twenty20	6	6	1	198	98*	39.60	130	152.30	0	1			3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	110	527	231	5	1/0	1/0	46.20	2.62	105.40	0
ODIs	269	150	104	3	1/12	1/12	34.66	4.16	50.00	0
Twenty20 Int.	5	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	205	1422	757	14	2/10		54.07	3.19	101.57
List A	336	349	269	8	3/34	3/34	33.62	4.62	43.62	0
Twenty20	6	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth - Dec 8-11, 1999
Last Test	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2007
ODI debut	Australia v South Africa at Wellington - Feb 15, 1995
Last ODI	Australia v England at Sydney - Feb 11, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 9, 2007
First-class span	1992/93 - 2006/07
List A span	1992/93 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004 - 2006/07

Notes

ICC Player of the Year 2006
ICC Test Player of the Year - 2003, 2004, 2006
One-Day International Player of the Year - 2002
Allan Border Medal 2004, 2006, 2007
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006

Profile

Acclaimed by academy coach Rod Marsh as the best teenage batsman he had ever seen, Ricky Ponting began with Tasmania at 17 and Australia at 20, and was given out unluckily for 96 on his Test debut. He was and remains the archetypal modern cricketer: he plays all the shots with a full flourish of the bat and knows only to attack, and his breathtaking, dead-eye fielding is a force in the game by itself. A gambler and a buccaneer, he is a natural at one-day cricket. He has had his setbacks, against probing seam attacks and high-class finger-spin, which, when out of form, he plays with hard hands. In the 1990s there were off-field indiscretions that led him once to admit publicly to an alcohol problem, but he overcame the issues and became part of the heartbeat of one of Australia's most successful teams. After the retirement of Ian Healy he took over as the man who led the singing of the victory song, passing it on when he assumed the captaincy.

With many lessons learned, Ponting's growing maturity was acknowledged by the ACB when he saw off competition from Shane Warne and Adam Gilchrist to succeed Steve Waugh as Australia's one-day leader early in 2002. It was a seamless transition: Ponting led the successful 2003 World Cup campaign from the front, clouting a coruscating 140 not out in the final, and acceded to the Test crown when Waugh finally stepped down early in 2004. A broken thumb suffered in the Champions Trophy in England forced him to watch Gilchrist lead Australia's first series victory in India for 35 years from the dressing room, although he returned for the final Test. Batting-wise his first year as captain was one to forget, but he began his second with 207 against Pakistan, joining Don Bradman and Greg Chappell as the only Australians to reach four double-centuries.

By the time the eagerly-awaited 2005 Ashes series got underway the cracks in an almost invincible Australian side were beginning to appear. A humiliating one-day loss to Bangladesh caused the first ripple of dissent against his leadership style, and this grew as the contest progressed. A heroic 156 helped save the Old Trafford Test, but on September 12, 2005, Ponting became the first Australian captain since Allan Border in 1986-87 to taste defeat in an Ashes series. The result hurt and the pain lingered throughout the next summer, but he regrouped and reglued to start an amazing streak of 16 wins in 17 Tests, culminating in the 5-0 demolition of England to regain the urn in the most emphatic way. However, the summer was tarnished slightly when England handed Australia their first tri-series finals loss for 14 years and he missed the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy defeat with a back injury. In the Tests Ponting was Man of the Series as Australia became the first team in 86 years to achieve an Ashes cleansweep and his 576 runs at 82.28 confirmed him as the game's modern master.

Waugh believes his successor will hold the game's run-scoring record when he retires. The world's leading strokeplayer, he finished 2005 with 1544 runs and posted twin hundreds three times in five months, joining Sunil Gavaskar as the only other man to achieve the feat, and the double effort in his 100th Test at the SCG was magnificent. He followed up with another 1333 runs in 2006 and owns more centuries than anyone but Sachin, Brian and Sunny. Frighteningly, he is far from finished.

Andrew Symonds

2007-03-01T14:38:00.000+05:30

Andrew Symonds

Australia

Full name Andrew Symonds
Born June 9, 1975, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Current age 31 years 265 days
Major teams Australia, Gloucestershire, Kent, Lancashire, Queensland
Nickname Roy
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak
Height 1.87 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	13	19	0	518	156	27.26	850	60.94	1	2	50	14	13
ODIs	161	128	24	4037	156	38.81	4386	92.04	5	21	359	80	69
Twenty20 Int.	4	4	2	125	54*	62.50	63	198.41	0	1	13	5	1
First-class	203	336	28	13124	254*	42.61			39	54			145
List A	377	334	42	9783	156	33.50			8	53			166
Twenty20	17	17	5	568	112	47.33	282	201.41	1	4			9

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Tests	13	1080	488	11	3/50	5/56	44.36	2.71	98.18	0	0
ODIs	161	5454	4524	121	5/18	5/18	37.38	4.97	45.07	2	1
Twenty20 Int.	4	84	97	7	2/14	2/14	13.85	6.92	12.00	0	0
First-class	203	15869	7900	218	6/105		36.23	2.98	72.79		2
List A	377	10923	8647	267	6/14	6/14	32.38	4.74	40.91	2	4
Twenty20	17	326	393	16	2/14	2/14	24.56	7.23	20.37	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Sri Lanka v Australia at Galle - Mar 8-12, 2004
Last Test	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v Australia at Lahore - Nov 10, 1998
Last ODI	Australia v England at Sydney - Feb 2, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17, 2005
Last Twenty20 Int.	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 9, 2007
First-class span	1994/95 - 2006/07
List A span	1993/94 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2006/07

Notes

One-Day International Player of the Year - 2005

Profile

Andrew Symonds brings gusto to whatever he does, whether firing down offbreaks or mediums, hurling his ungainly bulk round the field or vigorously ruffling the bowler's hair at the celebration of a wicket. He saves his loudest grunt for his batting, where he is that rarest of modern-day creatures - an unabashed six-hitter in the mould of a George Bonnor or a Colin Milburn or a David Hookes. Batting for Gloucestershire at 20, he scythed 16 sixes in the first dig [a world record] against Glamorgan at Abergavenny, 20 for the match [another first], and then announced he couldn't care less about the milestone; he wanted only to help his team. He has been matter-of-factly demolishing attacks ever since. His flaw has been to attempt one six too many - invariably off the wrong ball.

"I used to hate watching him bat," his old coach Toot Byron once lamented. "He wasn't in control of his shot-selection ... he'd get 24 off an over and then go out on the last ball of that over." Legend has it that Symonds, a dreadlocked Queensland larrikin, once turned up barefoot and wearing a cowboy hat for a contract meeting with Cricket Australia's then-chief executive Malcolm Speed. He also graciously ruled himself ineligible for any award at the 2006 Allan Border Medal - he would have been the One-Day Player of the Year - after being suspended for turning up drunk before Australia's embarrassing loss to Bangladesh on the Ashes tour.

During almost five years in and out of the one-day side he frittered away golden opportunities galore. One day changed everything. Striding out with his team in turmoil against Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup, a game and tournament he never expected to play in, Symonds sculpted a masterly 143 not out in 125 balls. Until that day, he had mustered just 762 one-day runs at only 23; ever since he has averaged more than 45 and become a hero to the masses. "In the past," he admits, "I was a man without a map when I went out to bat." Now he understands his one-day role perfectly - he could claim to be the side's most valuable player after pounding three hundreds and taking 21 wickets in 2005-06. His impact to the limited-overs outfit was shown this summer after he ripped the tendon from his arm playing a fierce drive and the team struggled to its worst losing streak in a decade. Symonds is not the only one hoping he'll make it to the World Cup.

Born in Birmingham, Symonds could have played for England but dreamed only of wearing the baggy green. In 2004 his fantasy was fulfilled in decidedly unGabbalike surroundings: the crackling minefields of Sri Lanka. He batted gamely without looking altogether comfortable, and was dumped after two Tests. Almost two years later he received an extended run as Australia's selectors searched for an answer to Andrew Flintoff, but he couldn't consistently mirror his one-day performances. Faced with the axe, he cracked a huge six at the MCG to open his scoring in a pressure-relieving 72 from 54 balls, which included a ground record five maximums, but was dropped on the Bangladesh tour after struggling for reliable impact in the previous series against South Africa. Given another opportunity when Shane Watson was injured and Damien Martyn retired, he appeared in his first Ashes series and reached a career high in his second game with 156 at the MCG. Batting with his fishing friend Matthew Hayden, he showed he had the mindset to make it at Test level.

Shaun Tait

2007-03-01T14:37:00.000+05:30

Shaun Tait

Australia

Full name Shaun William Tait
Born February 22, 1983, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia
Current age 24 years 7 days
Major teams Australia, Durham, South Australia
Nickname Sloon
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Height 1.93 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	2	3	2	8	4	8.00	27	29.62	0	1	0	0
ODIs	4	1	0	11	11	11.00	10	110.00	0	1	1	0
First-class	43	61	26	443	68	12.65	869	50.97	2			10
List A	42	19	10	59	22*	6.55	103	57.28	0			7
Twenty20	5	3	2	39	14*	39.00	38	102.63	0			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Tests	2	288	210	5	3/97	3/121	42.00	4.37	57.60	0	0
ODIs	4	234	218	5	2/60	2/60	43.60	5.58	46.80	0	0
First-class	43	7838	4756	174	7/99		27.33	3.64	45.04	17	6
List A	42	2144	1745	76	8/43	8/43	22.96	4.88	28.21	4	2
Twenty20	5	104	116	9	4/14	4/14	12.88	6.69	11.55	1	0

Career statistics


Test debut	England v Australia at Nottingham - Aug 25-29, 2005
Last Test	England v Australia at The Oval - Sep 8-12, 2005
ODI debut	Australia v England at Sydney - Feb 2, 2007
Last ODI	New Zealand v Australia at Hamilton - Feb 20, 2007
First-class span	2002/03 - 2006/07
List A span	2002/03 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Notes

Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year - 2004

Profile

Shaun Tait's shoulder-strong action slung him on to the 2005 Ashes tour, where he played two Tests ahead of his more celebrated South Australia team-mate Jason Gillespie, but it soon disrupted his quest for further international impact. With a muscular and unrefined method that seems to invite pain, Tait returned from England buoyed by his promotion only to hurt himself in a grade match and the subsequent shoulder surgery forced him out for the rest of the year. Fortunately he experienced no damage to his frightening pace stores, although he was surprised how easily his thunderbolts disappeared at Trent Bridge and The Oval.

Despite the injuries - a back problem suffered in the nets ended his trip to South Africa and a hamstring complaint delayed his ODI entry - his old-fashioned approach of yorkers and bumpers mixed with a modern dose of sharp reverse-swing has excited followers who cross fingers Tait and Lee can be the 21st century's version of Lillee and Thomson. "That's what I've had in the back of my mind as well," he said when asked if the pair could replicate the 1970s icons. To confirm the point he even shines the ball across his chest and finished his first Test day with a splash of red on his shirt as well as the wickets of Marcus Trescothick and Ian Bell. Unlike his tearaway predecessors, he can't live without his Playstation 2.

The Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year in 2003-04, Tait also picked up the ING Cup's Best New Talent prize, chiefly for his 8 for 43 against Tasmania, the best figures in domestic limited-overs history. When Lee was injured Tait was taken as a development player on the Sri Lanka tour, where he introduced himself to the newly installed captain Ricky Ponting in the nets by hitting him in the head with a bouncer. His early beginnings might have been spicy, but his follow-up year was even tastier with 65 first-class wickets in ten matches. An abbreviated 2005-06 included 6 for 41 in the ING Cup Final, which included an amazing combination of spot-on speed and 14 wides, and he backed up the following season to earn his first start in the national one-day side.

In two matches he showed his range, giving up 2 for 68 and 1 for 26 from his ten overs, and clocked 160kph. It won him a World Cup spot and proved Dennis Lillee's belief he "has all the resources to stick the ball right up the noses of the batsmen". A child of the Adelaide Hills, he received his best advice at the age of seven when his father suggested he play cricket.

Shane Watson

2007-03-01T14:35:00.000+05:30

Shane Watson

Australia

Full name Shane Robert Watson
Born June 17, 1981, Ipswich, Queensland
Current age 25 years 257 days
Major teams Australia, Hampshire, Queensland, Tasmania
Nickname Watto
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 1.83 m

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	3	4	0	81	31	20.25	212	38.20	0	0	8	0	0
ODIs	57	41	13	856	79	30.57	1166	73.41	0	6	68	9	13
Twenty20 Int.	1	1	0	4	4	4.00	6	66.66	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	55	94	14	3938	203*	49.22			11	19			37
List A	115	96	20	2528	132	33.26	3376	74.88	2	16			27
Twenty20	8	8	1	134	97*	19.14	113	118.58	0	1			4

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	3	186	123	2	1/25	1/25	61.50	3.96	93.00	0	0	0
ODIs	57	2326	1898	58	4/39	4/39	32.72	4.89	40.10	2	0	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	18	35	1	1/35	1/35	35.00	11.66	18.00	0	0	0
First-class	55	5226	3106	103	6/32		30.15	3.56	50.73		2	1
List A	115	4011	3404	96	4/39	4/39	35.45	5.09	41.78	2	0	0
Twenty20	8	66	94	5	3/30	3/30	18.80	8.54	13.20	0	0	0




Test debut	Australia v Pakistan at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2005
Last Test	Australia v West Indies at Brisbane - Nov 3-7, 2005
ODI debut	South Africa v Australia at Centurion - Mar 24, 2002
Last ODI	New Zealand v Australia at Hamilton - Feb 20, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Feb 24, 2006
First-class span	2000/01 - 2006/07
List A span	2000/01 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004 - 2006

Notes

Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year - 2002

Profile

Hulklike, blond and spiky-haired, Shane Watson should be the shiny embodiment of modern-day Australian cricket - if only that body didn't keep cracking up. Vivacious in all departments, he is the quintessential young man in a hurry. As a boy he played for Queensland Under-17s at 15, then went to the Academy. As a youth he upped and fled to Tasmania, desperate to gatecrash first-class cricket. Within five games he had clubbed his maiden hundred; within a year he was picked for Australia. Talent-spotted with the 2003 World Cup in mind, he ultimately missed out with stress fractures of the back - the same injury that riddled his teenage years. Until then his batting had lacked nothing in swagger and only a little in gap-finding artifice, while his bowling looked willing if docile. Apart from a nude photoshoot in an arty men's mag he faded swiftly from view, bouncing back in 2003-04 with four hundreds from No. 4 for Tasmania. He smashed an unbeaten 300, too, in a club game for Lindisfarne; then, irked by opposition attempts to thwart him reaching his triple, immediately ripped out 7 for 29.

Watson remains the cleanest of hitters and, several remodelled actions later, decidedly sharp with the ball. Back at home in Queensland (he hated the cold), he is the hot tip to become Australia's next champion allrounder - not least in the opinion of Australia's last one. "He has all the attributes," noted Alan Davidson in 2002. "A fine physical specimen, good athlete; just give him time." Picked for his first Test in 2004-05, he landed face-down after his opening delivery before finding his feet with Younis Khan's wicket and 31 runs. He didn't play in Australia's Ashes defeat, but his stock rose in the aftermath, as Andrew Flintoff highlighted the benefits of a genuine allrounder. The following season was ruined by a partial dislocation of his shoulder while fielding just minutes after his second Test wicket against West Indies, and he watched his good mate Andrew Symonds fill in during his rehabilitation.

Picked for the one-day tour of South Africa, he missed a return to the Test squad, but a fine 201 in the Pura Cup final demolition of Victoria eased the pain. Locked into Australia's one-day team as an opener - he survived food poisoning, which he feared was a heart attack, during a strong Champions Trophy campaign - and lined up as the Test allrounder, he was again floored when his body faltered. A persistent hamstring injury destroyed his Ashes dreams and he heads to the World Cup with nagging doubts over his wonky fitness.

Abdul Razzaq

2007-03-01T14:32:00.000+05:30

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
Tests	46	77	9	1946	134	28.61	4741	41.04	3	7	230	23	15
ODIs	229	197	49	4449	112	30.06	5559	80.03	2	22	333	103	30
Twenty20 Int.	2	2	1	27	17*	27.00	22	122.72	0	0	5	0	0
First-class	105	163	25	4620	203*	33.47			8	22			27
List A	276	237	56	5471	112	30.22			2	29			40
Twenty20	12	11	2	327	63	36.33	218	150.00	0	2			3

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.

Asim Kamal

2007-03-01T14:30:00.000+05:30

Asim Kamal

Pakistan

Full name Mohammad Asim Kamal
Born May 31, 1976, Karachi, Sind
Current age 30 years 274 days
Major teams Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan Customs, Pakistan International Airlines
Batting style Left-hand bat

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	12	20	1	717	99	37.73	1518	47.23	0	8	104	6	10	0
First-class	82	129	13	4323	164	37.26			8	27			66	0
List A	30	27	4	790	63	34.34			0	6			11	1
Twenty20	8	7	1	151	49	25.16	111	136.03	0	0			4	0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	12	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	82	114	76	2	1/6		38.00	4.00	57.00
List A	30	12	30	0	-	-	-	15.00	-	0
Twenty20	8	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v South Africa at Lahore - Oct 17-21, 2003
Last Test	Pakistan v England at Lahore - Nov 29-Dec 3, 2005
First-class span	1997/98 - 2006/07
List A span	1999/00 - 2005/06
Twenty20 span	2005/06 - 2006/07

Profile

Wisden overview
A left-hander of more obduracy than flair, Asim Kamal is the sort of batsman who can bind the middle order together, allowing others to bat around him. He is typically minimalist, particularly well equipped with a fluid cover-drive, but his meat and drink are nudged singles and patient spells of batting. After five seasons of domestic cricket, Kamal finally made his Test debut against South Africa, at the relatively ripe age of 27. Like so many others of late, Kamal was impressive in his first match, missing out on a hundred by just one run. Coming back into side for the Tests against India, Kamal continued to impress. In a series where most of Pakistan's batsmen gained notoriety for throwing their wickets away, Kamal showed rare discipline and composure, batting well with the tail to score two half-centuries. He further consolidated his reputation as a gritty customer during Pakistan's 2005 tour of India, scoring 91 in the first innings of the first Test. His safe catching at gully came in handy on several occasions on the same tour.

Bazid Khan

2007-03-01T14:29:00.000+05:30

Bazid Khan

Pakistan

Full name Bazid Khan
Born March 25, 1981, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 25 years 341 days
Major teams Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan Reserves, Public Works Department, Redco Pakistan Ltd
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	1	2	0	32	23	16.00	47	68.08	0	0	5	0	2
ODIs	3	3	0	78	66	26.00	132	59.09	0	1	5	0	1
First-class	87	131	8	4404	300*	35.80			8	21			77
List A	82	76	12	2916	116	45.56			3	25			40
Twenty20	9	9	0	234	90	26.00	195	120.00	0	2			3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0
ODIs	3	12	11	0	-	-	-	5.50	-	0
First-class	87	462	253	3	2/23		84.33	3.28	154.00
List A	82	336	283	3	1/0	1/0	94.33	5.05	112.00	0
Twenty20	9	30	32	2	1/6	1/6	16.00	6.40	15.00	0

Career statistics


Only Test	West Indies v Pakistan at Bridgetown - May 26-30, 2005
ODI debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Multan - Sep 30, 2004
Last ODI	West Indies v Pakistan at Gros Islet - May 22, 2005
First-class span	1997/98 - 2006/07
List A span	1997/98 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2005/06 - 2006/07

Profile

Bazid Khan has a good orthodox batting technique and equable temperament which have helped him score heavily in domestic cricket in Pakistan . He was part of the national Under-19s when he was just 15, and rather like his father Majid, used England as a finishing school. He played in the same Brighton College side as Matthew Prior that won 20 matches in 1999, and two years later spent some time on the MCC Ground Staff. On the fringes of the full Pakistan side for some time, Bazid averaged over 70 at home in 2003-4, and was finally blooded in a triangular one-day tournament early in the following season.

Danish Kaneria

2007-03-01T14:27:00.000+05:30

Danish Kaneria

Pakistan

Full name Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria
Born December 16, 1980, Karachi, Sind
Current age 26 years 75 days
Major teams Pakistan, Essex, Habib Bank Limited, Karachi, Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, Pakistan Reserves
Also known as Nani-Danny
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	46	62	29	230	29	6.96	479	48.01	30	2	15
ODIs	16	8	6	6	3*	3.00	18	33.33	0	0	2
First-class	107	132	64	589	47	8.66					36
List A	92	44	22	130	16	5.90					18
Twenty20	14	4	0	11	5	2.75	15	73.33			3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	46	13034	6408	198	7/77	12/94	32.36	2.94	65.82	6	12	2
ODIs	16	776	590	12	3/31	3/31	49.16	4.56	64.66	0	0	0
First-class	107	28771	13624	505	7/39		26.97	2.84	56.97		35	5
List A	92	4731	3215	138	5/21	5/21	23.29	4.07	34.28	3	3	0
Twenty20	14	263	329	17	4/31	4/31	19.35	7.50	15.47	1	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v England at Faisalabad - Nov 29-Dec 3, 2000
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Sharjah - Oct 31, 2001
Last ODI	Scotland v Pakistan at Edinburgh - Jun 27, 2006
First-class span	1998/99 - 2006/07
List A span	1998/99 - 2006
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

A tall, wiry legspinner, and only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan (the first, his cousin Anil Dalpat, was briefly their wicketkeeper), Danish Kaneria mastered some vital skills at an early age. His stock ball drifts into the batsman and he has a googly as cloaked as any in recent history.. His whirling approach is reminiscent of Abdul Qadir, and he has now picked up the baton from Mushtaq Ahmed as Pakistan's premier legspinner. Kaneria was hyped as a secret weapon when England toured Pakistan in 2000-01, and though his impact in the Test series was minimal, he has since made his mark. Initially he did so against the lesser lights of Bangladesh, but also in a home Test against South Africa, when his five-for won Pakistan the match. Since then, he has confirmed himself as a man capable of winning Tests, leading Pakistan to wins against Sri Lanka in Karachi in 2004 and against the West Indies in Jamaica in 2005. In between, two tours - to Australia and the graveyard of legspin, India - became arduous but satisfying stepping stones to the big league. In each series he outscalped the leading legspinners of our age, first Shane Warne, then Anil Kumble and although Pakistan lost the first series comprehensively, Kaneria's 19 wickets were crucial in securing a morale-boosting 1-1 draw in India. He struggled through much of 2006, not to take wickets, but to take them swiftly enough. It didn't help that he had no sustained support from the other end, as Pakistan suffered heavily from injuries to fast bowlers. But he ended the year upbeat with an improved performance in South Africa. It was enough to earn him a surprise recall into Pakistan's ODI squad for the 2007 World Cup, having not been a part of their plans in the last three years.

Faisal Iqbal

2007-03-01T14:23:00.001+05:30

Faisal Iqbal

Pakistan

Full name Faisal Iqbal
Born December 30, 1981, Karachi, Sind
Current age 25 years 61 days
Major teams Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, Pakistan Reserves
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	18	32	2	773	139	25.76	1755	44.04	1	5	96	4	12
ODIs	18	16	2	314	100*	22.42	519	60.50	1	0	24	4	3
First-class	107	167	18	6185	200	41.51			13	33			86
List A	93	86	14	2497	123	34.68			4	16			23
Twenty20	8	8	2	173	42	28.83	152	113.81	0	0			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	18	6	7	0	-	-	-	7.00	-	0
ODIs	18	18	33	0	-	-	-	11.00	-	0
First-class	107	138	98	1	1/6		98.00	4.26	138.00
List A	93	51	83	0	-	-	-	9.76	-	0
Twenty20	8	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0

Career statistics


Test debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland - Mar 8-12, 2001
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Centurion - Jan 11-15, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lahore - Feb 19, 2000
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Multan - Dec 13, 2006
First-class span	1998/99 - 2006/07
List A span	1997/98 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2005/06 - 2006/07

Profile

Wisden overview
A gutsy strokeplayer with a sound defence and an attitude to boot, Faisal Iqbal is an exciting middle-order prospect for Pakistan. A prolific performer at junior level, Iqbal's elevation into the Test team was criticised on ground of nepotism - he is Javed Miandad's nephew. But he demonstrated that he was worth that Test cap with an aggressive counter-attacking 83 off 85 balls in the first Test against Australia in Colombo in 2002-03. He was particularly impressive against Shane Warne, using his feet superbly to seize the momentum for Pakistan, and he did it all with a swagger that was refreshingly reminiscent of his uncle. He couldn't repeat his performance in the rest of that series, or in the two Tests he played in South Africa in 2002-03.

A hiatus followed from the national side though he remained a performer at domestic level. It seems to have finally paid off when in 2005-06, on the back of an astonishingly successful domestic season, Iqbal was called up to play for Pakistan against India in his hometown of Karachi, as a replacement for the injured Inzamam-ul-Haq. A failure in the first innings meant pressure in the second was plentiful; it didn't seem to affect him as with some assured, trademark backfoot play and composed defence, he scored an attractive maiden Test hundred, eventually assuring Pakistan a comfortable win. He got another opportunity in the very next Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo and didn't disappoint; if his previous noteworthy innings had been attacking ones, here was a good, honest rearguard, as his 60 helped Pakistan see off Murali on the last day to secure an honourable draw. Soon after, at Lord's, he was called on to display similar traits to eke out another battling last-day draw.

Opportunities will continue to hinge on injuries to one of Pakistan's solid middle order or any of the allrounders for the moment but he is now sweetly placed to cement his spot when Inzamam retires, ahead of the likes of Hasan Raza and Asim Kamal.

Iftikhar Anjum

2007-03-01T14:20:00.000+05:30

Iftikhar Anjum

Pakistan

Full name Rao Iftikhar Anjum
Born December 1, 1980, Khanewal, Punjab
Current age 26 years 90 days
Major teams Pakistan, Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad Cricket Association
Also known as Rao Iftikhar
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	1	1	1	9	9*	-	39	23.07	0	2	0	0
ODIs	26	15	13	89	19*	44.50	155	57.41	0	3	0	8
First-class	80	123	27	1616	78	16.83			5			49
List A	61	37	18	270	39	14.21			0			23
Twenty20	8	7	2	80	24	16.00	82	97.56	0			0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	1	84	62	0	-	-	-	4.42	-	0	0	0
ODIs	26	1205	925	19	2/13	2/13	48.68	4.60	63.42	0	0	0
First-class	80	14779	7864	338	7/59		23.26	3.19	43.72		21	3
List A	61	2996	2279	66	4/44	4/44	34.53	4.56	45.39	1	0	0
Twenty20	8	176	216	9	2/27	2/27	24.00	7.36	19.55	0	0	0

Career statistics


Only Test	Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Kandy - Apr 3-7, 2006
ODI debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Multan - Sep 30, 2004
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 14, 2007
First-class span	1999/00 - 2006/07
List A span	1998/99 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

Rao Iftikhar Anjum is another addition to Pakistan's seemingly endless production line of pace bowlers. Iftikhar, however, is more Aaqib Javed than Wasim Akram or Waqar Younis, and his outswinger is considered by many to be as effective as Aaqib's. He can bowl reverse-swing - a prerequisite for Pakistani bowlers, when the ball gets a bit rougher, with good control over his yorkers. Iftikhar has performed consistently well in the domestic circuit since making his debut three years ago, taking over 200 wickets on the generally lifeless pitches of Pakistan. It was his stellar performances in the current domestic season that brought him to national attention. Iftikhar led his team - the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited - to victory in the Patron's Trophy final against WAPDA, taking seven wickets in the first innings and ending with ten in the match. Not surprisingly, he was included in Pakistan's one-day squad for the series against India in 2004, before making his debut in the Paktel Cup seven moths later. He has since played 19 ODIs and has proved himself adept as a back-up bowler. But continuing injuries to Pakistan's frontline pacers means he remains perenially in the picture and he was rewarded with a Test debut against Sri Lanka in April 2006. Though he was expensive and wicketless, he would have been satisfied with a winning debut. With three of Pakistan's leading fast bowlers missing from the England series that summer, he was called up for the Tests but the unfortunate death of his father meant a return home and missing out on the Test series. And due to the regular injuries suffered by Pakistan's plethora of fast bowlers, he remains a permanent part of Pakistan's wider plans, including the 2007 World Cup.

Imran Farhat

2007-03-01T14:16:00.000+05:30

Imran Farhat

Pakistan

Full name Imran Farhat
Born May 20, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 24 years 285 days
Major teams Pakistan, Biman Bangladesh, Habib Bank Limited, Lahore, Pakistan Reserves
Also known as Romi
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	27	51	1	1655	128	33.10	3331	49.68	2	11	255	1	30
ODIs	33	33	1	974	107	30.43	1379	70.63	1	6	110	12	11
First-class	110	189	12	7303	242	41.25			15	32			107
List A	111	109	8	3272	138	32.39			7	14			49
Twenty20	11	11	1	363	115	36.30	220	165.00	1	2			6

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Tests	27	295	218	3	2/69	2/69	72.66	4.43	98.33	0	0
ODIs	33	86	89	5	3/10	3/10	17.80	6.20	17.20	0	0
First-class	110	4226	2377	84	7/31		28.29	3.37	50.30		2
List A	111	2211	1899	70	4/13	4/13	27.12	5.15	31.58	3	0
Twenty20	11	214	261	18	3/26	3/26	14.50	7.31	11.88	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland - Mar 8-12, 2001
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland - Feb 17-18, 2001
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Multan - Dec 13, 2006
First-class span	1998/99 - 2006/07
List A span	1997/98 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

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. He is Pakistan's Test opener, for now.

Inzamam-ul-Haq

2007-03-01T14:12:00.000+05:30

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Pakistan

Full name Inzamam-ul-Haq
Born March 3, 1970, Multan, Punjab
Current age 36 years 363 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Faisalabad, ICC World XI, Multan, National Bank of Pakistan, Rawalpindi, United Bank Limited
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	119	198	22	8813	329	50.07	16309	54.03	25	46	1104	48	81
ODIs	375	347	53	11665	137*	39.67	15711	74.24	10	83			109
Twenty20 Int.	1	1	1	11	11*	-	15	73.33	0	0	0	1	0
First-class	241	387	58	16679	329	50.69			45	86			167
List A	449	422	69	13523	157*	38.30			12	95			123
Twenty20	2	2	1	32	21	32.00	37	86.48	0	0			0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Tests	119	9	8	0	-	-	-	5.33	-	0	0
ODIs	375	58	64	3	1/0	1/0	21.33	6.62	19.33	0	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0
First-class	241	2704	1295	38	5/80		34.07	2.87	71.15		2
List A	449	896	740	30	3/18	3/18	24.66	4.95	29.86	0	0
Twenty20	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	England v Pakistan at Birmingham - Jun 4-8, 1992
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Lahore - Nov 22, 1991
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 14, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	England v Pakistan at Bristol - Aug 28, 2006
First-class span	1985/86 - 2006/07
List A span	1988/89 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006

Profile

Inzamam-ul-Haq is a symbiosis of strength and subtlety. Power is no surprise, but sublime touch is remarkable for a man of his bulk. He loathes exercise and often looks a passenger in the field, but with a willow between his palms he is suddenly galvanised. He plays shots all round the wicket, is especially strong off his legs, and unleashes ferocious pulls and lofted drives. Imran Khan rates him the best batsman in the world against pace. Early on he is vulnerable playing across his front pad or groping outside off stump. He uses his feet well to the spinners, although this aggression can be his undoing. Inzi keeps a cool head in a crisis and has succeeded Javed Miandad as Pakistan's premier batsman, but his hapless running between wickets is legendary and most dangerous for his partners. There were no such problems against New Zealand at a boiling Lahore in 2001-02, when Inzamam belted 329, the second-highest Test score by a Pakistani and the tenth-highest by anyone. However, he was then dogged by poor form, scoring just 16 runs in Pakistan's ill-fated World Cup campaign in 2003. He was dropped from the team briefly, but then roared back to form, scoring a magnificent unbeaten 138 and guiding Pakistan to a thrilling one-wicket win against Bangladesh at Multan. He was rewarded with the captaincy of the team, and despite leading them to victory in the Test series in New Zealand, question-marks about his leadership qualities surfaced when Pakistan were beaten in both the Test series and the one-dayers against India. But the selectors persevered with him and this bore results when he took a team thin on bowling resources to India and drew the Test series with a rousing performance in the final Test, Inzamam's 100th. After scoring a magnificent 184, Inzamam led the team astutely on a tense final day and took Pakistan to victory. Since that day, Inzamam has gone from strength to strength as captain and premier batsman. By scoring a hundred against West Indies in June 2005, he kept up a remarkable record of matchwinning centuries, amongt the best of modern-day batsmen. A magnificent year ended with Inzamam leading his team to triumph over Ashes-winning England; personally the series was arguably his best ever. He never failed to make a fifty, scored twin centuries at Faisalabad for the first time, going past Miandad as Pakistan's leading century-maker and joining him as only the second Pakistani with 8000 Test runs. As captain, he never looked more a leader, uniting a young, inexperienced team and turning them, once again, into a force to matter globally. The turn of the year brought contemplation; he missed the Test victory over India at Karachi with a persistent back injury. The subsequent ODI thrashing also raised concerns about Inzamam as ODI captain, none of which were entirely wiped away during ODI and Test wins in Sri Lanka. Pakistan were then beaten comprehensively in the Test series in England though all was forgotten - including Inzamam's own poor form - by events at The Oval. There, Inzamam, astonishingly for a man perceived as so insouciant, became the most controversial figure in cricket for a week, leading his side off the field in protest at charges of ball tampering made by umpires Billy Doctrove and Darrell Hair. They refused to come out at first, then delayed the start before eventually forfeiting the Test, the first time in the history of the game. In Pakistan, he became a national hero, saviour of a country's pride and honour. Though nobody is saying it just yet, the World Cup 2007 is likely to be his last act.

Kamran Akmal

2007-03-01T14:10:00.000+05:30

Kamran Akmal

Pakistan

Full name Kamran Akmal
Born January 13, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 25 years 47 days
Major teams Pakistan, Lahore, National Bank of Pakistan
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	33	55	4	1521	154	29.82	2444	62.23	4	5	227	2	108	18
ODIs	62	53	8	1120	124	24.88	1345	83.27	3	1	129	8	54	9
Twenty20 Int.	2	1	0	21	21	21.00	18	116.66	0	0	3	0	3	0
First-class	119	183	24	4978	174	31.30			8	22			377	36
List A	130	110	11	2465	132	24.89			5	7			147	33
Twenty20	15	13	1	280	59	23.33	216	129.62	0	1			7	8

Bowling averages
	Mat	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR
Tests	33	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	62	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20 Int.	2	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	119	-	-	-	-	-
List A	130	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	15	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics


Test debut	Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Harare - Nov 9-12, 2002
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Bulawayo - Nov 23, 2002
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	1997/98 - 2006/07
List A span	1997/98 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

Kamran Akmal made his first-class debut at the age of 15 as a useful wicketkeeper and a hard-hitting opening batsman. A string of good performances earned him a spot for Pakistan A in 2002, and after impressing against Sri Lanka A he won selection for the Zimbabwe tour in preference to the veteran Moin Khan. He was not expected to play in the Tests, but made his debut - and chipped in with a handy 38 at Harare - when Rashid Latif suffered a recurrence of a long-standing back injury. Initially his opportunities were limited, most of his matches coming when Latif or Moin were unavailable - he was the replacement when Latif was suspended for five one-dayers against Bangladesh, and then again when Moin was injured for the last two Tests against India. However, from October 2004, with Latif out of favour and Moin no longer at his peak, Akmal became Pakistan's first-choice wicketkeeper; he responded with a magnificent showing with the gloves in Australia that winter despite enduring criticism at home and calls for the return of Moin and Latif. But in 2005, Akmal silenced those calls as well; as well as maintaining a high standard behind the stumps, he scored five international centuries. Three came in ODIs as opener and two from the lower-middle order in Tests against India and England. The first Test century saved the Mohali Test while the second, a blistering knock, came in Pakistan's emphatic, series-sealing win at Lahore. The year, unquestionably, confirmed him as Pakistan's number one, as well as establishing him as among the brightest young talents in the world game. He began 2006 as he ended 2005; two hundreds against India and both, for varying reasons, were special. The first, at Lahore, was the fastest Test hundred by a wicketkeeper. The second, on a seaming first day green-top at Karachi, not only saved Pakistan from the depths of 39 for 6, eventually leading to a thumping win, but is unlikely to be forgotten by anyone who saw it. Since then, he has experienced a horrendously lean patch, culminating in a horror show in England and South Africa, where he shelled catches, fumbled takes and didn't score runs. As Pakistan toyed with the idea of resting him, he responded, improving his glovework, but Pakistan will hope the improvement continues through the 2007 World Cup.

Mohammad Asif

2007-03-01T14:07:00.000+05:30

Mohammad Asif

Pakistan

Full name Mohammad Asif
Born December 20, 1982, Sheikhupura, Punjab
Current age 24 years 71 days
Major teams Pakistan, Khan Research Labs, Lahore Division, Leicestershire, Sheikhupura Cricket Association, Sialkot Cricket Association
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	9	13	6	40	12*	5.71	163	24.53	5	0	2
ODIs	22	7	2	20	6	4.00	65	30.76	1	0	2
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0
First-class	68	91	37	448	42	8.29					26
List A	53	23	13	155	40	15.50					14
Twenty20	14	3	1	13	12	6.50	24	54.16			6

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	9	1914	986	49	6/44	11/71	20.12	3.09	39.06	3	4	1
ODIs	22	1024	702	22	3/28	3/28	31.90	4.11	46.54	0	0	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	24	21	2	2/21	2/21	10.50	5.25	12.00	0	0	0
First-class	68	12169	6713	280	7/35		23.97	3.30	43.46		17	5
List A	53	2371	1834	54	4/30	4/30	33.96	4.64	43.90	1	0	0
Twenty20	14	311	323	24	5/11	5/11	13.45	6.23	12.95	2	1	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Australia v Pakistan at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2005
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v England at Rawalpindi - Dec 21, 2005
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 14, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	England v Pakistan at Bristol - Aug 28, 2006
First-class span	2000/01 - 2006/07
List A span	1999/00 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

When he made his debut against Australia at Sydney in January 2005, little suggested that Pakistan's long tradition of happening upon blitzing fast bowlers would continue. Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, kept faith, calling Asif the most improved player in the country in late 2005. By taking ten wickets in a warm-up game against England, he proved Woolmer right. He made an impressive ODI debut one day after his 23rd birthday, dismissing Marcus Trescothick with his third ball and ending with 2 for 14 off seven incisive overs. Tall, lean and possessed of a little more muscle than on his debut, Asif generates pace a medium-pacer would aspire to and a tearaway would loosen up with, around mid to late 80mph. He has mind-numbing control over his bowling, a terrifically sharp bowling brain, stamina as well as the useful ability to seam the ball both ways on most pitches. His action has modified slightly since his debut, but is repetitive and claimed him seven plumb wickets at Karachi, as Pakistan sealed a famous home series win against India. Since then, he has blossomed magnificently. He was almost single-handedly responsible for Pakistan's Test series win in Sri Lanka, taking 17 wickets in two Tests. England seemed tailor-made for his particular gifts in the summer of 2006, but an elbow injury before the first Test ruled him out until the final Test, by which time Pakistan had lost the series. A promising career was apparently cut short when he tested positive for a banned steroid, but the ban was eventually overturned, allowing him to continue. He did, in some style, and ended the year, tainted but undoubtedly the world's most promising young bowling talent.

Mohammad Sami

2007-03-01T14:06:00.000+05:30

Mohammad Sami

Pakistan

Full name Mohammad Sami
Born February 24, 1981, Karachi, Sind
Current age 26 years 5 days
Major teams Pakistan, Karachi, Kent, National Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan Customs
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	30	46	11	382	49	10.91	1231	31.03	43	2	7
ODIs	79	43	19	275	46	11.45	434	63.36	12	9	18
First-class	81	107	34	1034	49	14.16					30
List A	111	63	26	403	46	10.89					24
Twenty20	10	5	1	26	8	6.50	25	104.00			5

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	30	6252	3686	77	5/36	8/106	47.87	3.53	81.19	3	2	0
ODIs	79	3908	3237	111	5/10	5/10	29.16	4.96	35.20	3	1	0
First-class	81	14920	8692	283	8/64		30.71	3.49	52.72		14	2
List A	111	5521	4576	159	6/20	6/20	28.77	4.97	34.72	4	2	0
Twenty20	10	233	283	7	2/14	2/14	40.42	7.28	33.28	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland - Mar 8-12, 2001
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Sharjah - Apr 8, 2001
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Centurion - Feb 4, 2007
First-class span	1999/00 - 2006/07
List A span	1999/00 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2006/07

Profile

One of a new generation of Pakistan fast bowlers, Mohammad Sami initially forced his way into the Test team with outstanding performances in domestic cricket and had an immediate impact in his first Test with five wickets against New Zealand. Then, in only his third Test, he notched a hat-trick, eking out the last three Sri Lankans in the Asian Test Championship final and he also has an ODI hat-trick. But since those early years, and especially after the World Cup 2003, when he was expected to become the Pakistan spearhead after the retirements of Wasim and Waqar, his story has been a fitful and thus far disappointing one.

Series after series has seen him disappoint as a stream of promising paceman have overtaken him, including the likes of Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Umar Gul and Mohammad Asif. Occasionally when the mood takes him, he can be threatening, as he was for some of the India series in 2005, especially at Kolkatta and the occasional ODI. For the most part he has been surprisingly ineffective and prone to leaking runs. So poor was his form after the India series in early 2006, he was finally dropped from the tour to Sri Lanka was lucky to be selected for the tour to England that summer, after a number of Pakistan's frontline bowlers were injured.

Nobody seems to be entirely sure where the problem lies either - he has been given the new-ball with license to attack, he has come on as first-change. He is fit - one of the fittest in the team - and athletic. From a shortish run-up and high action he generates surprising pace, settled in the mid-to-late eighties but with occasional forays into the nineties. He also quickly mastered traditional outswing and reverse-swing and bowls a mean yorker. Some say it is a confidence thing but a bowling average of nearly 50 after 26 Tests (and a strike rate of over 80) means that opportunities might be limited when other pacemen are fit again. It would have been an unthinkable thought when he took eight wickets on his Test debut.

Mohammad Yousuf

2007-03-01T14:04:00.000+05:30

Mohammad Yousuf

Pakistan

Full name Mohammad Yousuf
Born August 27, 1974, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 32 years 186 days
Major teams Pakistan, ACC Asian XI, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Pakistan International Airlines, Water and Power Development Authority
Also known as Yousuf Youhana
Batting style Right-hand bat

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	75	126	9	6553	223	56.00	12405	52.82	23	27	841	47	59
ODIs	233	220	32	7853	141*	41.77	10544	74.47	12	52	635	80	50
Twenty20 Int.	1	1	0	20	20	20.00	19	105.26	0	0	2	1	0
First-class	115	190	16	8833	223	50.76			27	42			76
List A	257	243	36	8376	141*	40.46			12	55			58
Twenty20	8	7	0	135	30	19.28	113	119.46	0	0			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR
Tests	75	6	3	-	-	-	3.00	-
ODIs	233	1	1	-	-	-	6.00	-
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	115	18	24	-	-	-	8.00	-
List A	257	7	13	-	-	-	11.14	-
Twenty20	8	1	1	-	-	-	6.00	-

Career statistics


Test debut	South Africa v Pakistan at Durban - Feb 26-Mar 2, 1998
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Harare - Mar 28, 1998
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 14, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	England v Pakistan at Bristol - Aug 28, 2006
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1996/97 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

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. Yousuf displaying 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 as the 2007 World Cup approaches, the credentials of Yousuf as Pakistan's premier batsman are impressive.

Naved-ul-Hasan

2007-03-01T14:02:00.000+05:30

Naved-ul-Hasan

Pakistan

Full name Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Born February 28, 1978, Sheikhupura, Punjab
Current age 29 years 1 days
Major teams Pakistan, Allied Bank, Herefordshire, Lahore Division, Pakistan Customs, Sheikhupura Cricket Association, Sialkot Cricket Association, Sussex
Also known as Rana Naved
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	9	15	3	239	42*	19.91	284	84.15	0	0	32	5	3
ODIs	61	40	14	348	29	13.38	452	76.99	0	0	28	8	12
Twenty20 Int.	2	1	1	17	17*	-	7	242.85	0	0	0	2	1
First-class	86	124	14	2670	139	24.27			3	8			47
List A	119	85	26	1159	70*	19.64			0	4			35
Twenty20	19	10	7	173	40*	57.66	100	173.00	0	0			11

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	9	1565	1044	18	3/30	5/93	58.00	4.00	86.94	0	0	0
ODIs	61	2800	2581	95	6/27	6/27	27.16	5.53	29.47	5	1	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	42	55	1	1/26	1/26	55.00	7.85	42.00	0	0	0
First-class	86	16696	9193	402	7/49		22.86	3.30	41.53		24	4
List A	119	5564	4769	187	6/27	6/27	25.50	5.14	29.75	9	3	0
Twenty20	19	384	432	19	3/9	3/9	22.73	6.75	20.21	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Karachi - Oct 28-Nov 1, 2004
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Centurion - Jan 11-15, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Sharjah - Apr 4, 2003
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	1995/96 - 2006/07
List A span	1999/00 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

Rana made his debut in Sharjah immediately after the disastrous 2003 World Cup, at which time he was competing with Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Azhar Mahmood for the allrounder's spot. Few backed him then despite some impressive early performances and he was dropped soon after, allegedly because of disciplinary problems. But now, with the continuing ambiguity over Shoaib Akhtar's part in the Pakistan team and injuries to other bowlers, Rana has worked his way back as an essential cog in the ODI team. As with most Pakistan bowlers of pace, he can bowl a reverse-swinging yorker almost at will. His change of pace is another useful weapon. But his nous with the ball, his control over line and length and his absolute refusal to consider giving anything less than his all in the field has stood out. His Test appearances remain limited and largely unsuccessful, though he bowled well when England visited in 2005-06. Further Tests may still depend on a permutation of injuries, suspensions for dodgy actions, doping and attitude issues, but there is no doubting his place and value in the Pakistan set-up. His form in 2006 has fallen away drastically, possibly due to a groin injury he picked up at Sussex, and with the return of Umar Gul, his position was in some doubt. But as Pakistan continued to struggle with finding a fit fast bowler, he managed to hold on to his place for the World Cup, despite a disastrous South African tour. As a lower-order, hard-hitting batsman, he has had little opportunity to impress, despite his insistence that he is, in fact, a natural wicketkeeper batsman. And he gave up his first love, hockey, for cricket.

Salman Butt

2007-03-01T14:00:00.000+05:30

Salman Butt

Pakistan

Full name Salman Butt
Born October 7, 1984, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 22 years 145 days
Major teams Pakistan, Lahore
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	14	26	0	777	122	29.88	1511	51.42	2	4	109	1	7
ODIs	33	33	1	962	108*	30.06	1350	71.25	3	3	124	1	9
First-class	56	97	5	3571	206	38.81			9	17			23
List A	75	75	5	2898	129*	41.40			9	12			19
Twenty20	9	9	0	158	67	17.55	147	107.48	0	1			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	14	24	18	0	-	-	-	4.50	-	0
ODIs	33	36	42	0	-	-	-	7.00	-	0
First-class	56	741	493	9	4/82		54.77	3.99	82.33
List A	75	460	405	9	2/26	2/26	45.00	5.28	51.11	0
Twenty20	9	96	127	4	2/25	2/25	31.75	7.93	24.00	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Bangladesh at Multan - Sep 3-6, 2003
Last Test	England v Pakistan at Leeds - Aug 4-8, 2006
ODI debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Southampton - Sep 22, 2004
Last ODI	Scotland v Pakistan at Edinburgh - Jun 27, 2006
First-class span	2000/01 - 2006/07
List A span	2000/01 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

Because he is left-handed and possessed of some supple wrists, it is easy to compare Salman Butt with the delightful Saeed Anwar. His drives and cuts through the arc between extra cover and backward point are inevitably flicked, often scooped and it is a high-scoring region. He doesn't mind pulling either and off his toes, he is efficient rather than whippy as Anwar was. Further, like Anwar, Butt's footwork doesn't really hold him back. But in attitude and temperament Butt is more Anwar's long-time partner, Aamir Sohail. He has a confident air about him, a spikiness and is one of the few younger players confident when speaking English. His breakthrough period was the winter of 2004, where he first scored an ODI century against India at Eden Gardens and then went further by scoring a fifty and a maiden Test century in Sydney later in the year. For most of 2005, he failed to build on that and despite another ODI century, also against India, doubts about his defensive technique and overt dash crept in, resulting in him dropping in and out of the team. But against England to end the year, he responded to criticism by unveiling a startling restraint and change of tempo, hitting a century and two fifties in the Tests, each innings commendably restrained. He had made impressive strides at age-level matches before making his Test debut against Bangladesh in 2003-04, playing in the Under-19 World Cup and touring South Africa with Pakistan's Academy team, smashing 233 against the South African Academy side. His strokeplay has never been in doubt and he is capable of providing electrifying starts when needed but with the tightening of his defense, Butt could be one half of the opening conundrum that has so haunted Pakistan since...well, Anwar and Sohail left the scene.

Shahid Afridi

2007-03-01T13:58:00.000+05:30

Shahid Afridi

Pakistan

Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age 27 years 0 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Legbreak googly

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	26	46	1	1683	156	37.40	1954	86.13	5	8	216	50	10
ODIs	237	225	10	4982	109	23.17	4588	108.58	4	27	467	224	83
Twenty20 Int.	2	2	0	35	28	17.50	27	129.62	0	0	5	1	0
First-class	94	160	4	4939	164	31.66			12	23			60
List A	312	297	12	7072	112	24.81			5	43			99
Twenty20	11	9	0	153	49	17.00	96	159.37	0	0			2

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Tests	26	3092	1640	47	5/52	5/43	34.89	3.18	65.78	1	1
ODIs	237	9231	7093	198	5/11	5/11	35.82	4.61	46.62	2	2
Twenty20 Int.	2	33	47	0	-	-	-	8.54	-	0	0
First-class	94	11193	5820	211	6/101		27.58	3.11	53.04		7
List A	312	12559	9606	281	5/11	5/11	34.18	4.58	44.69	3	3
Twenty20	11	222	244	11	3/23	3/23	22.18	6.59	20.18	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Australia at Karachi - Oct 22-26, 1998
Last Test	England v Pakistan at Manchester - Jul 27-29, 2006
ODI debut	Kenya v Pakistan at Nairobi (Aga) - Oct 2, 1996
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Port Elizabeth - Feb 9, 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	1995/96 - 2006/07
List A span	1995/96 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004 - 2006/07

Profile

In cricket, Shahid Afridi is the maddest of mad maxes. A flamboyant allrounder introduced to international cricket as a 16-year-old legspinner, he surprised everyone but himself by pinch-hitting the fastest one-day hundred in his maiden innings. Afridi is a compulsive shot-maker and although until 2004 it was too often his undoing, causing him to float in and out of the team, a combination of maturity on and off the field and a sympathetic coach in Bob Woolmer, saw Afridi blossom into one of modern-day cricket's most dangerous players and a vital cog in Pakistan's revival in 2005. A string of incisive contributions from June 2004 culminated in a violent century against India in Kanpur in April 2005; remarkably it was the joint second fastest ODI century in terms of balls faced. A few weeks before, by smashing the joint second fastest Test half-century at Bangalore and taking crucial last day wickets, Afridi had helped Pakistan memorably level the Test series. So his year continued; a Test century against the West Indies and contributions against England at the end of the year. He went berserk against India on the flattest of pitches with two centuries, including a Test best 156 in January 2006. An Afridi virtuoso is laced with fearless lofted drives and short-arm jabs over midwicket. He is at his best when forcing straight and at his weakest pushing at the ball just outside off. The biggest improvement has been in Afridi's legspin; previously underrated, they are now integral in the ODI side and curiously effective at key moments in Tests. When the conditions are with him, he gets turn as well as some lazy drift, but his box of tricks is the key, boasting a vicious faster ball and a conventional off-spinner as well. His allround skills are completed by agile fielding and among the strongest arms in the game; he also possesses the firmest handshake in international cricket. Again he shocked everyone but himself when, after finally becoming a fixture in the Pakistan side, and a thrillingly bombastic one at that, he announced a temporary 'retirement' from Test cricket, citing an increasingly heavy playing schedule. To less surprise, he retracted his retirement two weeks later. Since then he has been dropped again from the Test team in England and his place in the ODI side has been in flux. He remains, though, an original and a dangerous one at that.

Shahid Nazir

2007-03-01T13:53:00.000+05:30

Shahid Nazir

Pakistan

Full name Shahid Nazir
Born December 4, 1977, Faisalabad, Punjab
Current age 29 years 87 days
Major teams Pakistan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala Cricket Association, Habib Bank Limited, National Bank of Pakistan, Northumberland
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	15	19	3	194	40	12.12	418	46.41	0	22	2	5
ODIs	17	8	7	25	8	25.00	43	58.13	0	3	0	4
First-class	117	146	29	1499	60*	12.81			2			33
List A	74	34	17	219	31	12.88			0			23
Twenty20	5	1	0	0	0	0.00	1	0.00	0	0	0	1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	15	2234	1272	36	5/53	7/98	35.33	3.41	62.05	0	1	0
ODIs	17	810	649	19	3/14	3/14	34.15	4.80	42.63	0	0	0
First-class	117	17467	8980	430	7/39		20.88	3.08	40.62		18	1
List A	74	3359	2329	95	5/30	5/30	24.51	4.16	35.35	1	1	0
Twenty20	5	105	106	8	4/11	4/11	13.25	6.05	13.12	1	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura - Oct 17-21, 1996
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	England v Pakistan at Nottingham - Sep 1, 1996
Last ODI	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lahore - Feb 19, 2000
First-class span	1995/96 - 2006/07
List A span	1995/96 - 2005/06
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Shoaib Akhtar

2007-03-01T13:49:00.000+05:30

Shoaib Akhtar

Pakistan

Full name Shoaib Akhtar
Born August 13, 1975, Rawalpindi, Punjab
Current age 31 years 200 days
Major teams Pakistan, Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan, Asia XI, Durham, ICC World XI, Khan Research Labs, Pakistan International Airlines, Rawalpindi, Somerset, Worcestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	43	63	12	541	47	10.60	1292	41.87	0	53	22	11
ODIs	133	65	31	344	43	10.11	468	73.50	0	22	10	17
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	1
First-class	123	171	47	1536	59*	12.38			1			37
List A	177	95	35	732	56	12.20			1			28
Twenty20	10	7	1	37	14	6.16	31	119.35	0			3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	43	7556	4276	169	6/11	11/78	25.30	3.39	44.71	9	12	2
ODIs	133	6276	4854	208	6/16	6/16	23.33	4.64	30.17	5	4	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	24	31	1	1/31	1/31	31.00	7.75	24.00	0	0	0
First-class	123	19018	11484	440	6/11		26.10	3.62	43.22		28	2
List A	177	8406	6551	277	6/16	6/16	23.64	4.67	30.34	11	6	0
Twenty20	10	222	263	11	5/23	5/23	23.90	7.10	20.18	0	1	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Rawalpindi - Nov 29-Dec 3, 1997
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Port Elizabeth - Jan 19-22, 2007
ODI debut	Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Harare - Mar 28, 1998
Last ODI	England v Pakistan at Nottingham - Sep 8, 2006
Only Twenty20 Int.	England v Pakistan at Bristol - Aug 28, 2006
First-class span	1994/95 - 2006/07
List A span	1993/94 - 2006
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2006/07

Profile

Shoaib Akhtar burst onto the big stage in the 1999 World Cup with a long, hurtling run-up and blistering speed. His star status was sealed by a great flop of hair, a talent for show-boating and a vivid nickname - the Rawalpindi Express. But it was too much, too young. A huge ego and his blind ambition to break the 100mph barrier seemed to matter more to him than cementing his place in the Pakistan side, and in November 2006, he copped a two-year ban for using the banned substance, Nandrolone, but he was reprieved on appeal to the undisguised disgust of international drugs agencies.

It was the latest, but by no means the only, controversy in his chequered career. The authorities twice sidelined him over throwing allegations and although his action was cleared, courtesy of hyperextensible joints and the University of Western Australia, injuries created fresh doubts over his international future. However, he channelled his enormous resources far better in 2002, turning in two of the most blistering bowling efforts of the year, both against Australia. First, he blitzed them with a spell of 5 for 25 in a one-dayer at Brisbane, and then returned 5 for 21 in a spectacular performance in Colombo that all but won the Test. The 2003 World Cup was far more disappointing, though. He promised much, but came a cropper, especially in the needle encounter against Sachin Tendulkar. Dropped after the World Cup, Shoaib roared back to form on the tour to New Zealand, but soon after came a forgettable - and controversial - series against India. Not only did he struggle for wickets, he also left the field at a crucial stage of the third Test citing wrist injury and back pain, though neither injury seemed to bother him when he came out to bat. Shoaib felt the heat, as his commitment and his relationship with the captain and the team management came into question as well. The series began a period in which Shoaib's career came under its gravest threat. Mutterings about his commitment were never far away and a difficult relationship with Inzamam and Bob Woolmer the coach didn't make matters easier. He blew hot and cold in Australia, looking Pakistan's most incisive threat for periods but also looking their most disinterested at others. A hamstring injury cut short that tour and a potpourri of fitness, commitment and attitudinal complaints meant he missed most of Pakistan's cricket in 2005.

But, inevitably perhaps, he came back against England, finishing with 17 wickets and proving the difference between the two sides. As well as being at the peak of his powers - a concotion of lethal slower balls, yorkers and bouncers - Shoaib looked a team man to the core. Typically since then he has spent much time on the sidelines, missing tours to Sri Lanka and most of England with a combination of ankle and knee injuries. He returned to play the ODI series against England and seemed back in full flow, before again missing the last match with an injury. At the time, it seemed his rehabilitation at the end of 2005 might become one of the most significant moments in Pakistan's history. But then came the drugs furore, and the realisation it had been too good to be true.

One day captured his essence; he returned against South Africa in Durban in 2006-07, having not been picked for the series initially, took 4 for 36 in 11 overs, set up a Test win, strained a hamstring, argued with coach Bob Woolmer, and returned to Pakistan. He was in Pakistan's squad for the 2007 World Cup, but his participation was pending, on his fitness first, the results of another dope test and a strained relationship with the management.

Shoaib Malik

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Shoaib Malik

Pakistan

Full name Shoaib Malik
Born February 1, 1982, Sialkot, Punjab
Current age 25 years 28 days
Major teams Pakistan, Gloucestershire, Gujranwala Cricket Association, Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan Reserves, Sialkot Cricket Association
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	18	29	4	941	148*	37.64	2132	44.13	1	5	130	8	8
ODIs	134	118	16	3432	143	33.64	4456	77.01	5	20	287	37	47
Twenty20 Int.	2	2	0	31	16	15.50	33	93.93	0	0	3	0	0
First-class	72	110	13	2762	148*	28.47			6	12			35
List A	196	162	28	4859	143	36.26			8	28			76
Twenty20	17	16	5	606	88*	55.09	483	125.46	0	5			8

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	18	1429	820	13	4/42	4/94	63.07	3.44	109.92	1	0	0
ODIs	134	4768	3551	103	4/19	4/19	34.47	4.46	46.29	1	0	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
First-class	72	9812	4890	163	7/81		30.00	2.99	60.19		5	1
List A	196	8064	5833	200	5/35	5/35	29.16	4.34	40.32	6	1	0
Twenty20	17	197	231	15	5/13	5/13	15.40	7.03	13.13	0	1	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Bangladesh at Multan - Aug 29-31, 2001
Last Test	Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006
ODI debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah - Oct 14, 1999
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	1997/98 - 2006/07
List A span	1997 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

Short of wicketkeeping, there are few role that have passed Shoaib Malik by on the cricket field. He has batted in every position in ODIs since his debut in 1999. He began at Test level batting in the lower-order and was even used as an opener, astonishingly, proving himself to be an adept one. As an offspinner in the modern mould, everything about his bowling, from short-stepping run-up to the doosra, bear striking similarities with Saqlain Mushtaq (though not as obviously gifted). And the action isn't clean enough - he has been reported twice at international level - once in October 2004 after which he played primarily as a batsman for the next six months, before undergoing elbow surgery to correct his action. And he was again reported in November 2005, after which he underwent elbow surgery again in early 2006. But it is his intelligence and versatility that mark him out and make him so vital to Pakistan's future. After Bob Woolmer's arrival, he became one of Pakistan's most intelligent ODI batsmen, regularly marshalling chases from one-down, setting up platforms for big totals as a thruster, scoring runs in vital matches and being at the heart of Pakistan's ODI resurgence. He is an uncomplicated batsman, with checked drives and cuts and useful slogs when needed. Against India, both in 2005 and 2006, all these qualities came to the fore. Yet, he can still come in at number six as he did against South Africa in 2003 once and blast 82 from 40 balls. More significantly, he has settled at Test level, scoring a vital, match-saving hundred against Sri Lanka at Colombo. Injuries kept him out of Tests against England and South Africa but as he returned to the ODI side with a World Cup looming, his batting intelligence was again shining through. He is talked in private circles within the PCB, as a future captain.

Umar Gul

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Umar Gul

Pakistan

Full name Umar Gul
Born October 15, 1982, Peshawar, North-Western Frontier Province
Current age 24 years 137 days
Major teams Pakistan, Gloucestershire, Pakistan A, Pakistan International Airlines
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	14	17	2	116	26	7.73	303	38.28	15	3	4
ODIs	25	4	1	34	17*	11.33	71	47.88	4	0	2
First-class	39	43	7	404	46	11.22					10
List A	57	19	9	85	17*	8.50					7
Twenty20	8	5	1	28	11	7.00	26	107.69			4

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	14	3141	1868	61	5/31	9/164	30.62	3.56	51.49	5	3	0
ODIs	25	1153	883	30	5/17	5/17	29.43	4.59	38.43	0	1	0
First-class	39	7974	4605	184	8/78		25.02	3.46	43.33	12	12	1
List A	57	2740	2169	74	5/17	5/17	29.31	4.74	37.02	1	1	0
Twenty20	8	178	195	13	4/21	4/21	15.00	6.57	13.69	1	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Bangladesh at Karachi - Aug 20-24, 2003
Last Test	Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006
ODI debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Sharjah - Apr 3, 2003
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Dec 16, 2006
First-class span	2001/02 - 2006/07
List A span	2002/03 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

A fast bowler of growing repute, Umar Gul is the latest in Pakistan's assembly-line of pace-bowling talent. 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 admirably, maintaining excellent discipline and getting appreciable outswing with the new ball. Gul isn't in the Shoaib Akhtar category in terms of pace, but his exceptional control and ability to extract seam movement marks him out. Further, his height enables him to extract bounce on most surfaces and from his natural back of a length, it is a useful trait. His biggest moment in his brief international career came in the Lahore Test against India in 2003-04. Unfazed by a daunting batting line-up, Gul tore through the Indian top order with his ability to move the ball both ways off the seam at a sharp pace. His 5 for 31 in the first innings gave Pakistan the early initiative which they drove home to win the Test and level the series. Unfortunately, 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 wasn't picked for the winter series against England but finally put on a Pakistan shirt against India in the ODI series at home in February 2006. He went to Sri Lanka and opened the bowling in both Tests with Mohammad Asif and showed further signs of rehabilitation 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. An ankle injury stopped him from playing in South Africa but with Mohammad Sami fading, Gul has established himself, along with Asif, as the most promising quick in the land. In October he signed a one-year contract with Gloucestershire for the 2007 season.

Yasir Hameed

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Yasir Hameed

Pakistan

Full name Yasir Hameed Qureshi
Born February 28, 1978, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Current age 29 years 1 days
Major teams Pakistan, Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar Cricket Association
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	20	39	3	1292	170	35.88	2231	57.91	2	8	189	3	16
ODIs	50	50	1	1917	127*	39.12	2839	67.52	3	11	205	6	12
First-class	99	166	11	5604	207	36.15			12	27			76
List A	131	126	8	4185	127*	35.46			7	22			44
Twenty20	12	12	1	258	69	23.45	242	106.61	0	2			1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4
Tests	20	6	5	0	-	-	-	5.00	-	0
ODIs	50	18	26	0	-	-	-	8.66	-	0
First-class	99	747	559	6	2/46		93.16	4.48	124.50
List A	131	370	317	13	4/38	4/38	24.38	5.14	28.46	2
Twenty20	12	1	4	0	-	-	-	24.00	-	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Bangladesh at Karachi - Aug 20-24, 2003
Last Test	South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town - Jan 26-28, 2007
ODI debut	New Zealand v Pakistan at Dambulla - May 20, 2003
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Dec 16, 2006
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1995/96 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004/05 - 2006/07

Profile

Yasir Hameed stamped his presence in international cricket with two Test centuries on debut - against Bangladesh at Karachi in August 2003 - becoming only the second player to achieve that feat. Frail of build, Yasir's game is built on timing and an easy elegance. A technique more solid than many recent top-order Pakistani batsmen served him well in his career early on. His exploits in the one-day arena were initially as impressive, and he forged a superb combination with Imran Farhat at the top of the order: against New Zealand at home the pair put together a record four consecutive hundred partnerships. The early signs were promising then, but he developed a worrying tendency to waste his starts, making pretty 20s and then throwing it away, often by flailing at wide ones outside off. That saw him lose his place in the team in late 2004. Selectorial inconsistencies didn't help, Hameed being dropped the next match after scoring two fifties in a Test at Syndey. Thereafter opportunities have been limited: a few ODIs here and there (in all of which he has made contributions) and no Tests since June 2005. Persistence at domestic level paid off, however, as he returned to the national squad against the West Indies in November 2006, made a couple of fifties in the ODI series and booked himself a seat to South Africa at the start of 2007. With Mohammad Yousuf missing there, opportunities will be present.

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