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Ijaz Ahmed

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Ijaz Ahmed Biography
Ijaz Ahmed (Urdu: اعجاز احمد) (born 20 September 1968 in Sialkot), the Pakistani cricketer who played 60 Tests and 250 One Day Internationals for Pakistan over a period from 1986 to 2001

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Waqar Younis

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Waqar Younis Biography
Waqar Younis Maitla is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler born in Vehari Punjab. He is one of the top ten cricketers of all time and got worldwide fame. He is well known in cricket for his ability to “reverse swing a cricket ball” at high speed while bowling at cricket pitch. During his career he took “373 Test Wickets” and “416 One Day International Wickets”. Waqar Younis is considered as one of the best exponents of swing bowling delivery. He has a best strike rate for any bowler with more than “200 Test Wickets”.
Personal Information of Waqar Younis

Personal information
Full name Waqar Younis Maitla
Born 16 November 1971 (age 39)
Vehari, Punjab, Pakistan

Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Batting style Right hand bat
Bowling style Right arm fast
Role Bowler
Domestic Team Information
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Years Team
2003-2004 Allied Bank Limited
2003 Warwickshire
2001-2003 National Bank of Pakistan
2000-2001 Lahore Blues
1999-2000 REDCO Pakistan Limited
1998-1999 Rawalpindi
1998-1999 Karachi
1997-1998 Glamorgan
1990-1993 Surrey
1988-1989, 1996-1997 United Bank Limited
1987-1988, 1997-1998 Multan
International Information
International information
National side Pakistan
Test debut (cap 111) 15 November 1989 v India
Last Test 2 January 2003 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 71) 14 October 1989 v West Indies
Last ODI 4 March 2003 v Zimbabwe
ODI shirt no. 99
Career Statistics
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 87 262 228 411
Runs scored 1010 969 2972 1553
Batting average 10.2 10.3 13.38 10.42
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/6 0/0
Top score 45 37 64 45
Balls bowled 16224 12698 39181 19841
Wickets 373 416 956 675
Bowling average 23.56 23.84 22.33 22.36
5 wickets in innings 22 13 63 17
10 wickets in match 5 n/a 14 n/a
Best bowling Jul-76 Jul-36 17-Aug Jul-36
Catches/stumpings 18/– 35/– 58/– 56/–
From 2006 to 2007 he worked as a national bowling coach. He was appointed as a coach of “Pakistan Cricket Team” on 3rd March 2010. He will take part in all form of cricket matches due to his managerial contract with “Pakistan Cricket Board” right up to December 2011.

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Imran Khan

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 Imran Khan Biography

He dazzled the world with his amazing talent, he gave cricket another name, he

is and always will be remembered by cricket fans worldwide. Imran khan, an

unbelievably talented all rounder is the Legend of cricket and has reached the

top like no one else.

          This cricketer was born no differently than any other person. He was born in

Lahore, Pakistan into a family of six. He entered the world on November 25,

1952, the only boy and seventh member of his family. His parents gave him the

name Imran Khan Niazi and truly loved him since he is the only boy in their

family.

          Imran was part of a well-educated family. His parents believed that their

children should get the best of education, and become something. Imran's parents

have believed this and followed through with it, and that is why Imran's sisters

are so successful today. His older sister Robina is an alumnus of the LSE and

has a senior position in the United Nations in New York; his other sister Aleema

has a master's degree in business administration and runs a successful business;

Uzma is a highly qualified surgeon is working in a Lahore hospital; while his

other sister Rani is a University graduate who coordinates charity work. When it

was time for Imran to go attend a college, he went to the prestigious public

school in Lahore, the Aitchison College. There he was by far the best player on

his team, being a very fine batsmen. He was still though quite far from becoming

the best in the world. As Imran grew older, his interests went from being a

batsmen to being a fast bowler.

          When sixteen, Imran made his debut for Lahore. Imran's cousins Javed Burki, and

Majid Khan were a great part of cricket therefore when he made his test debut

people thought that he made it because his family was on the Pakistan's Cricket

Team. (Nepotism)

          Later, Imran had to put cricket to the side and focus more on his studies.

Undoubtedly he was back again at the age of eighteen. He played admirably which

resulted in him moving to England as he was chosen to play for a private school

there.

         As the year 1971 approached, he made his test debut while visiting England.

During this tour, he was fined many times by the management because he was

looked upon by his peers as being a very snobby and wild player. Also on this

tour, Imran did not play as well. Because of his "not so good" bowling, Pakistan

was costed to settle for a draw. This was the only test match on the tour.

          When Imran was twenty-one, he was admitted in the Oxford University. For three

years he studied economics and politics. In 1974 Pakistan toured England and

therefore he was selected because of his form for Oxford University and his

experience with speaking English. He had not succeeded to make a big mark

because all three of his tests were drawn.

          In 1976 Imran returned to Pakistan after being away for four years. During the

1976-77 season, Imran got a place in the Pakistan cricket team. He had impressed

the team with his fantastic bowling. Later he moved to play with Sussex. The

biggest reason for Imran to do this was because of his love affairs with the

nightlife of London. He was quite angry at Worcester (a team he played for

before he played for Sussex), because of the racism he found there. During the

time he had been playing for other teams, Imran had become quite a big star.

Everyone was able to see that this guy had talent and played very well. At this

point, not only was he playing well, but had basically become a superstar.

          Imran continued to play for Sussex, because he enjoyed it there. At this point

he had become the "father" of the reverse swing. His most famous partner was

Sarfaraz Nawaz, in which the partners could make a lot of runs.

          Soon after, under the orders of the top official, Imran came back to Pakistan

to play test cricket for the series against India. During this match, Imran hit

two sixes and a four with only seven balls remaining. Because of Imran's huge

success, one could easily say that Imran was one of the most adored cricketer

through the land at this point.

          During the early 80's Imran was not only at his cricketing peak, but had quite

a few relations with women. He had a relationship with Susannah Costantine,

ex-model Marie Helving, and artist Emma Sargeant. Some of his relations ended

simply because of difference in culture and because of the busy and travelling

life of Imran. He brought some of his relationships back home to Pakistan in

which he was frowned upon because he was an individual of Muslim faith.

          When Imran was thirty, he became the captain of the Pakistan cricket team. He

lead them to a victory against England in their second test match.

          During the years of his captaincy, Imran had broken his shin. Even though this

was so, Imran continued to bowl, whether there was pain or not. Because of his

injury, Imran was able to put bowling to the side and concentrate more on his

batting. Imran improved his batting greatly which led him to his first century

in a one day match.

          In 1987, Imran decided to retire from cricket. Javed Miandad took his place.

Because Pakistan's best captain was gone; the team was in somewhat of crisis.

President Zia put a lot of pressure on Imran, therefore he was back as a captain

in 1988.

          In 1992, the world cup final was Imran's exit from cricket. He led Pakistan to a

great victory over India. Pakistan had won the World Cup. It was time for Imran

to retire, which brought a lot of grief to Pakistan. He ended his career with an

outstanding score of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in only test matches. During his

career, Imran had turned the Pakistan cricket stars into the stars they are

today. The day that Imran retired was a very big day. So big that the President

of that time, Zia personally tried to stop him from retiring. Imran said that he

wanted to retire at the highest point of his popularity so that people would be

able to remember him forever.4 He wanted his name to be in all hearts and be

recognized for all his accomplishments. Imran had officially ended his career as

a cricketer and is truly remembered by all.

          When Imran won the world cup, he had raised twenty five million dollars to

build a cancer hospital in memory of his mother. About ten years ago when

Imran's mother had cancer; Imran was desperately looking for some place to take

her, but none of the hospital's in Pakistan had the right facilities to treat

her. When Imran took her to an outside country, it was too late; she had lost

her battle against cancer. Eversnice then, Imran has wanted to build a cancer

hospital. Today he has a wonderful hospital standing in Lahore, Pakistan. It is

named after his mother Shawkat Khanam. Imran does not charge anything to

patients who cannot afford the treatment.

          In 1995, Imran decided to settle down and marry. He married Jemima Goldsmith who

is the daughter of a millionaire. She was Jewish and converted to Islam by

choice just before the two got married. Their wedding took place in Paris. When

they came back to London, they threw a party which was more for the public.

          On November 18th 1996, Imran and Jemima were the proud parent's of a baby boy.

The named him Suleiman Isa. On April 10th, 1999 Jemima gave birth to yet another

baby boy. They have named him Kassim.

          Today, Imran has entered the world of politics and has set up his own party. He

continues to fundraise for his hospital. He does this by taking tours with

popular stars. Some stars donate their money to Imran's hospital. Jemima designs

clothes and sells them overseas. The profit goes to the Shawkat Khanam Memorial

Hospital. Also the restaurant in London, Salt and Pepper gives its profits to

the hospital.

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Shoaib Akhtar

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Shoaib Akhtar Biography
Shoaib Akhtar is a former professional cricketer who played testes and One Day International matches for the Pakistan national team in ICC organized events. He has been dubbed as The Rawalpindi Express after the place where he was born and he is arguably the fastest bowler the world of cricket has ever seen, easily clocking 150 km/hour on many occasions. He became the first man to bowl a delivery over 100 miles/hour or 161.3 km/hour, which is the fastest delivery ever bowled in the history of cricket against England. Moreover, not only did he achieve a speed of 100 miles/hour on his delivery, he achieved it twice during one single match and that is something that makes him very unique in the world of fast bowlers. His prowess lay in being able to bowl fast and precise Yorkers as well as quick bouncers and these abilities made him one of the greatest as well as most feared bowlers of all time, the likes of which had not been seen in international cricket since the times of Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Jeff Thompson, Dennis Lillie, Malcolm Marshall and the likes – players who depended on raw pace to pick up wickets.

However, Shoaib Akhtar was also a very controversial figure and it followed him wherever he went. It has been said that he was very selfish and not a team man. The Pakistan team management once sent him home from Australia in the middle of a series because of an alleged poor behavior on his part. In 2006, he was perhaps involved in the biggest controversy when WADA found Shoaib Akhtar guilty of taking performance enhancing drugs and the ICC banned him from playing cricket. This ban was however lifted and he returned to the Pakistan national side the following year and almost immediately, got himself banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board or the PCB for fighting with team mate and fellow opening bowler Mohammad Asif during a training session.

He was selected to play for the Kolkata Knight Riders for the inaugural IPL but injuries blighted his season and he played only a handful of matches. Akhtar was so injury prone that he only managed to play a total of 46 tests and 163 One Day Internationals in his 12 year international career, taking a total of 425 wickets in all. Shoaib Akhtar, in spite of all his short comings, is truly a legend of the game and no matter what happens, cricket will always remember this flamboyant star.

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Waseem Akram

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Waseem Akram Biography 
Wasim Akram born 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 both ODIs (502) and List A cricket (881), and was one of the pioneers of reverse swing bowling. 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.

Wasim retired in 2003, after a brief spell with Hampshire in England. Since then, Wasim has taken up commentary and can currently be seen as a sportscaster for the ESPN Star network, and is also running shows on ARY Digital. He is married to Huma Mufti, daughter of Mr. Humayaun Mufti. Wasim and Huma have two sons from their marriage of fourteen years. Wasim has also appeared in Fuzon video as a model.

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