Pakistani Cricket Players Biography Wallpapers : Umar Gul

Umar Gul Biography

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Profile :

Umar Gul, the least-hyped but most successful and assured Pakistan pace product of the last few years was born on 14 April 1984 in Peshawar of Khyber Pahktunkha . He is a right arm fast medium bowler who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team. Gul has turn out to be Pakistan’s forefront and one of the most excellent swift bowlers in the world . He is smart adequate and good sufficient to achieve something in all three set-ups. He also plays a role of nightmare for Pakistan team . Occasionally he shows a role of all-rounder . He played a great knock of 65* in test match against England and occupy his career best 39 runs in ODI.

Career :

He had played just nine first-class matches when called up for national duty in the wake of Pakistan's poor 2003 World Cup. He mark his ODI debut on 3^rdApril 2003 against Zimbabwe in Sharjah and catch his test cap on 20 August 2003 at Karachi playing against Bangladesh and started his T20 career on 4^th September 2009 against Kenya.

He has gained fame as one of the most successful bowlers in Twenty20 cricket finishing as the leading wicket taker and bowler in both the 2007 and 2009 Twenty20 World Championship Tournaments. Umar Gul is the second most highest wicket taker (74) in Twenty20 International cricket, only after Saeed Ajmal. He won the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award in 2013. In the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, he performed well, earning the shroud from at least one expert of "the outstanding seam bowler of the World in Twenty20". His five-wicket haul for just six runs, when Pakistan defeated New Zealand, won extraordinary acclaim. The spell made him the first bowler in history to take a five wickets in a Twenty20 international, and he held the record of best T20 bowling figure until 8 August 2011 , later on it was broken by other bowlers. Gul performed admirably, maintaining excellent discipline and getting appreciable outswing with the new ball in all 3 formats. He gained a lot of wickets bowled, in particular with late reverse swinging yorkers, he was also called as the master of Yorkers.
Despite being a bowler Gul can perform well as a lower order batsman and has proved his ability as a quick run-picker.Unfortunately, gul faced many injuries in his career . The injury would have ended many international career, but Gul returned, fitter and sharper than before every time.
He had hinted at that by being leading wicket-taker in the 2007 World Twenty20; over the next two years he impressed wherever he went, in the IPL for the Kolkatta Knight Riders and in Australia's domestic Twenty20 tournament. Confirmation came on the grandest stage. In the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008 campaign, he was purchased for a price of $150,000 to represent the Kolkata Knight Riders team. He is smart enough and good enough to succeed in all three formats and 2009 proved it: he put together a patch of wicket-taking in ODIs, on dead pitches in Tests (including a career-best six-wicket haul against Sri Lanka) and established himself as the world's best Twenty20 bowler, coming on after the initial overs and firing in yorkers on demand . He is not a one-format pony, however, and will remain a crucial cog in Pakistan's attack across all formats.

Stats :

BATTING AVERAGES :

TEST MATCHES :

Matches 47 Runs 577 HS 65* Average 9.94 Hundred 0 Fifties 1

ODI Matches :

Matches : 124 Runs 451 HS 39 Average 9.80 Hundred 0 Fifties 0

T20 matches :

Matches 56 Runs 164 HS 32 Average 9.64 Hundred 0 Fifties 0

BOWLING AVERAGES :

TEST MATCHES :

Matches : 47 Wickets 163 BBM : 9/164 Average 34.06 5w 4 times 10w 0 times

ODI Matches :