Pakistani Cricket Players

Umar Gul

Umar Gul Biography

source link (google.com.pk)

Date of Birth: April 14, 1984

Birth Place: Peshawar, North-Western Frontier Province

Major teams Pakistan, Gloucestershire, Habib Bank Limited, Kolkata Knight Riders, North West Frontier Province, North West Frontier Province Panthers, Pakistan A, Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar, Peshawar Panthers, Western Australia

Batting style: Right-hand bat

Playing role: Bowler

Bowling style: Right-arm fast-medium

The less aggressive, but the most successful and said the pace of Product Pakistan in recent years, Umar Gul, Pakistan, the final assembly line, the pace bowling talent. He was only nine games of the first class, asked if called national duty because of the poor in Pakistan World Championship in 2003. There are even traces of Sharjah, Gul are very well maintained excellent discipline and significant lateral displacement of the new ball.

Not free, but bowls a heavy ball very quickly, and exceptional control measures, and the ability to extract the movement of funds from the seam. Moreover, this area is possible to complete recovery in most areas, the nature and duration of the back, is very useful. His first important moment in his career in the Lahore Test against India, 2003-04. Undaunted is a daunting batting line-up, Gul devastated by Indian top order, moving the ball in both directions from the fast pace of fashion. 31st May in their first innings gave Pakistan the early initiative when he went home to win the race.

Unfortunately, this is his last cricket for over a year, elected three stress fractures in his back immediately after the test. The damage would have ended many of his international career, but Gul returned, fitter and sharper than it was in late 2005. He returned to Pakistan in India ODI Series T in the country in February 2006 and in Sri Lanka was still evidence of rehabilitation, are resistant to these two tests, but it was actually the second half of 2006, which is full of age. Leading the attack on England and the West Indies players of Pakistan was the main victim, finishing much better bowler Gul of Pakistan.

After Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif is distracted, the cutting edge Pakistani Gul and one of the best players in the world was fast. She is intelligent and good, both for success in all three forms of 2009 and it turned out that he has established a counter window and ODIs, the evidence is not dead (also a career spanning more than six stops on the tour to Sri Lanka) and the world's best Twenty20 player who can come after the first, and burning at the request of York.

He suggested that as the first recipient of the window years World Twenty20 2007, after two years, has impressed wherever he went and Kolkata Knight Riders IPL Twenty20 tournament and mainland Australia. The confirmation came on the bigger picture: Australia poleaxed T20i with Dubai is 4.8, which is the best wicket-thrower and the receiver of Pakistan had won the Twenty20 World War II in England. The highlight was a 5-6 against New Zealand, the quality of bowling exposure York. Is not a form of a horse, however, and is an integral part of the attack on all forms Pakistan.Umar Gul is a talented cricketer, who was born on April 14, 1984 in Peshwar, North-Western Frontier Province of Pakistan. He is a right-handed batsman and a specialist in medium-fast bowling.

He made his Test debut in the home series against Bangladesh, in Karachi in August 2003. By taking 15 wickets in his first Test series, he became the second Pakistani bowler, next to Shabbir Ahmed, his teammate, to secure more number of wickets in the series. In the same season, he played in two other Test matches against New Zealand claiming four wickets in one Test match that ended in a draw. Umar Gul came in as a replacement in the second Test of the three-Test series against India. He scalped five wickets, which included top-order batsmen like Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar. For his impressive five wickets and 31 runs in the second Test, Umar Gul was given the ‘Man of the Match’. Of his 16 Test matches, he picked up 67 wickets with a bowling average of 31.55 and made 136 runs. With his good control of line and length in fast bowling, he has managed to take three five-wicket hauls in Test matches.

Umar Gul began his One Day International (ODI) career on April 3, 2003 in a match against Zimbabwe at the Cherry Blossom Sharjah Cup. He played in all the three group matches of the 2007 World Cup picking up four wickets with an impressive economy rate of 3.13. Having played 48 ODIs, he holds a good bowling average of 28.45 for 64 wickets, which includes one five-wicket haul.

Umar Gul played his first international Twenty 20 (T20I) match on September 4, 2007 against Kenya in Nairobi. He took three New Zealand wickets conceding 15 runs of just four overs at the International Cricket Council (ICC) World T20 of 2007. His achievement helped Pakistan to win the semi-final against New Zealand. Umar Gul took three wickets in the final match against India and became the highest wicket-taker in the series. He played three matches for Peshawar team at the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and represented the Pakistan A in a few matches. Before being selected in the 2006 Pakistani squad for the England tour, Umar Gul played some warm-up matches with Pakistan XI.

In the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008 campaign, he was purchased for a price of $150,000 to represent the Kolkata Knight Riders team. On May 25, 2008, in a match against Kings XI Punjab, he claimed four wickets for 23 runs. For his commendable performance in the game, Umar Gul won the Player of the Match award. He played six innings scoring 39 runs with a strike rate of 205.26. Umar Gul took 12 wickets conceding 184 runs with a bowling average of 15.33 and an economy rate of 8.17.