Tuesday 6 December 2011

Mohammad Yousuf

Mohammad Yousuf Biography

Mohammad Yousuf (formerly Yousuf Youhana, born 27 August 1974, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani cricketer who has been a member of the Pakistani national cricket team since 1998. He is best known for his achievement in 2006 when he broke the great West Indian batsman, Sir Vivian Richards', world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year. Prior to his conversion to Islam in 2005, Yousuf was one of the few Christians to play in the Pakistan national cricket team. He made his Test debut against South Africa at Durban and ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare. He has scored over 9,000 ODI runs at an average of 43.63 (2rd highest batting average among Pakistani batsmen after Zaheer Abbas and 6,770 Test runs at an average of 55.49 (highest batting average amongst all Pakistani batsmen) with 23 Test centuries. He has the record of scoring the most runs without being dismissed in ODIs, 405 against Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe in 2002-03. He has also scored a 23-ball fifty in ODIs, and a 68-ball hundred. In Tests he has scored a 27-ball fifty, which is 3rd fastest by any player. He was top scorer during the successive years of 2002 and 2003 in the world in ODIs. In 2004, he scored a memorable 111 against the Australians in the Boxing Day Test. In December 2005, he scored 223 against England at Lahore, also earning him the man of the match award. Seven months later in July 2006, when Pakistan toured England, he scored 202 and 48 in the first Test, again earning himself the man of the match award. He followed up with 192 in the third Test at Headingley and 128 in the final Test at the Oval. Yousuf was named CNN-IBN�s Cricketer of the Year for 2006, ahead of the likes of Australian captain Ricky Ponting, West Indies Brian Lara, Australian spinner Shane Warne, South Africa�s bowling spearhead Makhaya Ntini and Sri Lanka�s Muttiah Muralitharan. He was selected as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 2007 edition. Yousuf became the fourth recipient of the ICC 'Test Cricketer of the Year' award for 2007, he scored 944 runs at an average of 94.40 including five centuries and two fifties in just 10 innings and that was enough to be awarded the honour ahead of Kevin Pietersen and Ricky Ponting. Yousuf was also named in the 2007 Test team of the Year alongside compatriot Mohammad Asif. A year that started on a promising note, Yousuf carried it forward to break two world records both held earlier by West Indian great Sir Vivian Richards. The 32-year-old smashed an unparalleled 1788 runs in just 11 Test matches with the help of nine centuries � his second record � taking him beyond the Windies great yet again. Yousuf is known for his ability to score runs at exceptional rate through his great technique and composed strokeplay. Although capable of hitting the ball hard, Yousuf is quick between the wickets, although he is prone to being run out. Yousuf is a skillful infielder, with a report prepared in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the ninth highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman. He is also distinguished by his characteristic celebration after hitting one hundred runs for his country, where he prostrates in thankfulness to Allah in the direction of Mecca. He has observed this act (known as the Sajdah) recently since his conversion to Islam.

Mohammad Yousuf

MUHAMMAD Yousaf Says Bye Bye To Cricket

Muhammad Yousuf Break Vivian Richard Record

Friday 2 December 2011

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar Biography
Sachin scared of me, says Shoaib Akhtar in his biography
PTI Sep 23, 2011, 01.17pm ISTTags:Shoaib Akhtar|shahrukh khan|Sachin Tendulkar
(Controversial Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar made some sensational claims in his biography 'Controversially Yours', revealing Sachin Tendulkar being scared of him. (TOI))

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Controversially Yours - Shoaib Akhtar Interview - IBN7 News

Exclusive: Shoaib Akhtar's all-out attack

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik Biagraphy
Saleem Malik (Urdu: سلیم ملک) (born April 16, 1963)(also known as Salim Malik) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective. Despite playing over 100 Tests he would go down in cricket history as the first of a number of international cricketers to be banned for match fixing during the turn of the 20th century. Saleem is the brother in law of former teammate Ijaz Ahmed.[1]

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Salim Malik breaks 10 years old silence in talking with Tabi forNews One TV Lahore

Salim Malik 100* Vs England 1996

Thursday 1 December 2011

Inzamam Ul Haq

Inzamam Ul Haq Biography

Full Name: Inzamam-ul-Haq Date of Birth: Mar 03, 1970, Multan, Punjab Major Team: Pakistan, Asia XI, Faisalabad, ICC World XI, ICL Pakistan XI, Lahore Badshahs, Multan, National Bank of Pakistan, Rawalpindi, United Bank Limited, Yorkshire Playing Roll: Batsman Batting Style: Right Bowling Style: Slow left-arm orthodox

International Debut: 1991
Batting and fielding records

	M		Inns		NO		Runs		HS		Ave		BF		SR		100		50		4s	6s		Ct			St

Test	120		200		22		8830		329		49.61		16345		54.02		25		46		1105	48		81			-

ODI	378		350		53		11739		137*		39.53		15812		74.24		10		83		971	144		113			-

T20I	1		1		1		11		11*		-		15		73.33		-		-		-	1		-			-
Bowling records

		M		Inns		Balls		Runs		Wkts		BBI		BBM		Ave		Eco		SR			4W		5W	10W


Test		120		1		9		8		-		-		-		-		5.33		-			-		-	-


ODI		378		6		58		64		3		1/0		1/0		21.33		6.62		19.33			-		-	-


T20I		1		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-			-		-	-
Career Statistics
Test Debut: England v Pakistan at Birmingham, 04-08, Jun 1992
ODI Debut: Pakistan v West Indies at Lahore, Nov 22, 1991
Twenty20 Debut: England v Pakistan at Bristol, Aug 28, 2008

Inzamam Ul Haq

Inzamam Ul Haq

Inzamam-ul-Haq 100 vs INDIA 2004 Karachi

Inzamam ul Haq on Twenty20 World cup Geo Super

Javed Miandad

Javed Miandad Biography

The Rediff Cricket Interview
Like any other warm-blooded South Asian, cricket has always been a passion for him. New Zealand's visit to Pakistan in 1976-77, the series in which Javed Miandad burst on to the international scene, had a huge impact on Saad, who was just 11 years old then.
Between 1989 and 2000, Shafqat lived in the United States, where he got a PhD in neurology. But the US is a cricketing wilderness and it was a great comfort for Shafqat when he found that he could follow his beloved game on Web sites like rediff.com and Cricinfo.
In 2000, Shafqat returned to Pakistan and took up the post of assistant professor of neurology at the Aga Khan University in Karachi.
In an interview with Faisal Shariff, he relives the experience of writing Miandad's autobiography with the legendary batsman who, he says, helped himself to liberal doses of paan masala while working on the book. Excerpts:
Where did the idea for the book germinate?Like any avid cricket follower, I had been looking forward to Javed Miandad's autobiography ever since his retirement in 1996, but years passed by and... nothing.
In July 2000, I returned home to Karachi after finishing my medical studies in Boston. One of the first things I did after settling into home and job was to get hold of Miandad's mobile number and call him, offering to help write his memoirs.
How much time did it take you to complete the book?The interviews with Javed lasted about six months, after which it took me a year to finalise the manuscript. We gave it to the publishers in September 2002 and it was finally ready in print in May 2003.
How did you and Miandad work on the book?It was great fun. I used a micro-cassette recorder with a detachable microphone and recorded conversations with Javed approximately once a week for six months. The line of questioning was very open-ended and followed the general chronology of his career. All his Test and ODI scorecards as well as several Wisdens from the 1970s and 1980s would always be at hand. He would frequently go off at tangents, which usually resulted in the most interesting details. He was mostly talkative, but sometimes he was distracted or tired and it was hard to get him going. At these moments a healthy dose of paan masala [an Indian import] and several minutes of idle chatter could work wonders.
Most of the interviews were in Karachi, either at his mother's home or mine. I also met him for a few sessions at his residence in Lahore, and a couple of times at his flat in London when we were both there for the Pakistan visit in May-June 2001.
I transcribed the tapes myself and wrote out the manuscript as I went along. Javed and one of his sisters-in-law [an English teacher in Karachi] went through each chapter as it was ready and suggested the occasional change.
Since when have you known Miandad?I didn't know him before doing the book. I first spoke with him in late 2000, when he was the national coach during England's 2000-01 tour of Pakistan. A common friend of ours facilitated the contact. Javed was polite with me, but, at first, dismissive. After some persistence, however, he agreed to see me. I had written a 6,000-word profile of him that I showed him and that he shared with his wife Tahira. I urged him to let me write his story, but he didn't give any definite answer then.
In April 2001, after he had returned from a tour of New Zealand and resigned as the Pakistan coach, he called me to say he wanted to go ahead with the book.
I know he had offers from the UK to get his autobiography done over there, but he wanted his book to be accurate and true to subject, which a UK product obviously wouldn't be. Players like Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, and Wasim Akram had published their autobiographies from the UK with English co-authors, and Javed felt those books lacked an intrinsic Pakistani or desi feel. He wanted to do something more along the lines of Sunny Days [Sunil Gavaskar's autobiography], a genuine subcontinental classic.
Which is your favourite chapter in the book?Being an incurable romantic, the chapter I most enjoyed discussing with Javed was the first one, about his life as a child growing up in Karachi and getting an early start in cricket. It greatly moved me to contemplate how as a little boy Javed had played his strokes in Karachi's crowded streets and its dusty playgrounds, and little did anyone know that one day this same little boy would play the same shots in some of the great Test centres of the world, against some of the most feared and famous bowlers, and in the process push the limits of cricket achievement so far that ultimately the image of an entire nation's cricket would be redefined.
The chapter I most enjoyed writing was 'Top of the World', about winning the 1992 World Cup, which let me relive the whole experience. And the chapter I most enjoyed reading was 'Australian Rules Cricket', which is about Javed take on touring Australia.
Which is Miandad's favourite chapter in the book?I'm pretty sure the one he most enjoyed narrating was 'Sharjah', which revolves around his famous last-ball six, but covers a lot of other ground as well. He also greatly enjoyed doing the chapter 'Wars with India', which is provocatively titled [laughs], but which I think conveys well the soft corner Javed -- and indeed the silent Pakistani majority -- feels for India and Indian fans.
I know that the chapter he has most enjoyed reading is 'In Search of 365', which deals with the most prolific batting period of his career, between 1987 and 1989. One day during the recording sessions, he told me to put together a list of his scores starting from his 260 against England at the Oval in 1987 through to his 271 against New Zealand at Auckland in 1989. I quickly put together the list and showed him, and he kept poring over it for a long time. It had got him into the right mood and that whole chapter flowed out effortlessly.
The chapter on Imran Khan seems to be very diplomatically written. How much was edited out?Javed and Imran have an extremely complex relationship, which I think no outsider can claim to fully comprehend. Part of the complexity is having layers and layers of mixed feelings towards each other. I think Javed admires and loathes Imran in equal measure and probably Imran does the same. Javed would have loved to have Imran's societal trappings and Imran would have given an arm and a leg for Javed's cricketing brain. But when it came to playing for Pakistan, they were both in full agreement and cooperated 100 per cent to pool their resources and start winning outside Pakistan.
In the chapter on Imran, Javed made a very conscious effort to be as fair to Imran as possible. This may come across as diplomatic, but that is certainly not his intention. He is just giving Imran his due. Nothing from that chapter has been edited out, I can assure you.
The match-fixing allegations in the book -- how difficult was that for you to write? Was there anything new other than what Miandad has already told the Qayyum Commission?I followed Javed's instructions. He wanted to address match fixing to the extent that it was relevant to the narrative. He has a commonsense take on the whole thing, summarized on pages 278-279 in the chapter 'Coaching Pakistan'. There really is nothing new in this area that he hasn't already said. Even his concern that a match against England at Sharjah in 1999 may have been fixed has previously been voiced in one of his columns on the Wisden Web site.
What did you learn about Miandad while you were writing the book?At first, I remained awed simply from the fact that I was discussing cricket with the great Javed Miandad. After a few weeks that wore off, and the sheer enjoyment of being in Javed's company took over.
It was great fun driving around with him in Karachi. Everybody recognises him and he makes it a point to wave back to everyone. Once, a newspaper hawker pushed the full complement of evening newspapers and monthly newsmagazines into the car, but refused to take money. Javed thanked him. A few times I saw flower vendors push fresh bouquets into the car and then quickly back off before Javed could even reach for his wallet. Another time, we stopped at a roadside stall to get paan and the paanwala greeted Javed like an old friend. The two discussed Pakistan's batting options like [Tom] Graveney and [Geoffrey] Boycott assessing the English line-up before a Cornhill Test. He was an old pal, Javed said, and could offer better insights than many professional commentators.
Many people had cautioned me that Javed was supposed to be difficult and temperamental, but I found him to be nothing but a gentleman -- warm, affable, keenly intelligent, and at ease with himself. He has a strong empathetic side and would much rather cheer for the underdog than the favourite. He is also very funny, and greatly enjoys indulging his cutting wit.
Would you do a biography on Miandad since there is no assessment of Javed Miandad in the autobiography?There is certainly room for a biography on Miandad, because an autobiography cannot be set against the relief of your accomplishments and impact the way a third-person narrative can. I may do one later with a collaborator, perhaps with my friend Kamran Abbasi, who writes a regular column for Wisden Cricket Monthly. I wouldn't be doing it for myself, though. For a team with such a successful and interesting history, the literature on Pakistan cricket is pathetically sparse. I would like to do everything I can to help add to this body of writing.

Javed Miandad

Javed Miandad's Famous SIXER @ Sharjah

Javed Miandad vs Srinath 1992 World Cup Cricket

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Biography

A brief biography of Imran Khan that highlights the background, education, career, family life and life after cricket of Pakistans greatest all time cricketer.

Born: 25 November 1952, Lahore, Pakistan

Major Teams Imran played for: Pakistan, New South Wales, Sussex, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Oxford University, Worcestershire, Dawood Hercules, Lahore City Cricket Association.

Known As: Imran Khan

Batting Style: Right Hand Batsman

Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Bowler

Test Debut: Pakistan v England at Birmingham,1st
Test match played, 1971 season
Last Test played: Pakistan v Sri Lanka at
Faisalabad, 3rd Test match, 1991/92 season.

One Day International Debut: Pakistan v England
at Nottingham, The Prudential Trophy in 1974
Last ODI: Pakistan v Englang at Melbourne,Cricket
World Cup Final, in 1991/92

Wisden Cricketer of the Year: 1983
Played for New South Wales: 1984-85

Imran Khan was the first and only Pakistan Captain to win a World Cup Final.

Profile:

Born Imran Khan Niazi into a proud pathan family of landowners. Best know internationally as Imran Khan also known as the Lion of Lahore, he is probably the finest cricketer to come from Pakistan. An outstanding all rounder, he became a national hero when he captained the Pakistan Cricket team to victory and brought back the World Cup in the 1991/92 Cricket World Cup which took place in Australia.

Part of a family that produced many cricketers from his maternal side, amongst which is Majid Khan who was also a Pakistan Captain as well as Javed Burqi.

Imran grew up in Lahore and was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore. His parents placed great emphasis on education and ensured that Imran received the best. He attended the Royal Grammar School in Worcester and then went on to Keble College, Oxford.

He captained the Oxford University Cricket Team and played for Worchester and then Sussex. He captained Pakistan from 1982 till 1988, when he decided to quit cricket while he was still at the top of his career.

When the then President General Zia Ul Haq appealed to Imran to rejoin the team as they needed his expertise and leadership. Imran returned to the Cricketing World and finally left cricket after bringing back the only ever World Cup trophy to Pakistan in 1992.

Imran Khan was the world's most charismatic cricketer, a heart throb to many drooling female fans, that were more enthralled with his stunning good looks and physique than his cricketing abilities. He received many proposals of marriage and had numerous affairs with many socialites all over the world.

Being a very religious man, many expected him to marry a lady of his own faith but he surprised the world when in 1995 at the age of 43, this charasmatic bachelor who always managed to escape marraige, married millionaire James Goldsmiths daughter Jemima in a Muslim ceremony on May 16 1995 in Paris, France, then in a civil ceremony in Richmond, on June 21st of the same year.

Jemima converted to the Islamic faith and was named Haiqa Khan. She was a good, close friend of the late Lady Diana Spencer. Jemima gave birth to a baby boy, named Suleiman Issa, on 18 November 1996 in London.

Imran Khan has been implicated in a peternity suit by former Girlfriend Sita White, however Imran denies being the father of a girl named Tyrian Jade. A Los Angeles court has however ruled by default, that Imran is the father.

Imran and Jemima have a second baby son, born on 10th April 1999, in London, England. They have named him Qassim.

Since giving up cricket Imran has devoted his time to raising funds for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer clinic in memory of his late mother, who lost her battle against cancer. He Imran has realised his dream and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Clinic is a one of its kind cancer clinic in Pakistan.

Currently Imran is pursuing a political career, He campaigns under the party name 'Tehrik - E - Insaaf'. Many believe he would have won the last elections, but the conservative Pakistani people felt that he had betrayed them by marrying a non muslim and the fact that she was a Jewish lady, was a plot by the Americans to get Pakistan under American power. Imran is still devoting his time and energy to politics and his popularity has once again grown in part due to the success of his marraige as well as the fact that he has the Pakistani peoples best interests at heart.

Imran Khan

Imran Khan

SIR IMRAN KHAN GREATEST ALLROUNDER IN THE HISTORY OF CRICKET

Imran Khan bowling vs West Indies 1986/87 in Pakistan

Waseem Akram

Wasim Akram Biography

Wasim Akram (Urdu: وسیم اکرم) (born June 3, 1966 in Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer. He was a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman, who represented the Pakistani cricket team in Tests and One Day Internationals. Widely regarded as one of the finest fast bowlers ever, Akram holds world records for the most wickets taken in List A cricket (881), and is second only to Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of ODI wickets (502). He is considered to be one of the pioneers of reverse swing bowling.[1][2][3] The revolutionary nature of reverse swing initially resulted in accusations of ball tampering, although reverse swing has now been accepted as a legitimate feature of the game. Akram's later career was also tarnished with accusations of match fixing, although these remain unproven.

Waseem Akram

Waseem Akram

Wasim Akram - Amazing Yorker & Runout vs India 1992 World Cup

Wasim Akram - The Best Slower Ball