Pakistani Cricket Players: Imran Nazir

Imran Nazir Biography

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Full Name: Imran Nazir
Date of Birth: Dec 16, 1981, Gujranwala, Punjab
Major Team: Pakistan, Asia XI, ICL Pakistan XI, Lahore Badshahs, National Bank of Pakistan, North West Frontier Province Panthers, Pakistan Reserves, Sheikhupura Cricket Association, Sialkot Cricket Association
Playing Roll: Batsman
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Pakistani cricketer who represents his country at international level as an attacking right-handed opening batsman.
Imran Nazir an other gift of Allah for the Pakistan in the cricket player’s team. But the distrust was that as he offers more genuine promise than most. He is predominantly strong off the back foot, loves forcing all the way through the covers. His hostile behavior towards his cricket passion has had him made as a one-day player. In the initial period of his entrance he couldn’t perform well in his first few Tests.
Ultimately, on the other hand, Glenn McGrath and Co noticed his method and deficient of footwork rather cruelly in two Tests matches against Australia. The preference of Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Imran Farhat and Taufeeq Umar moved him upward level, which enhance his career charm and He became National squad against South Africa in 2006-07 because of the consistency in performances in in-land matches. And he was selected for World Cup 2007 team on his volatile performance 39-ball 57-scores, but his three failure match series won’t polish his performance and become a slight decline of his image in the Pakistani people. Over all his performance made him one of the best fielders in the Pakistan cricket team, so he is considered as to be the 1st Pakistani to flip-flop (while intercepting a square cut).
His career-best performance of 160 adjacent to Zimbabwe in the World Cup retained him for the following such tours to Abu Dhabi and Scotland whereas Imran also is being elected for Pakistani cricket training camps. Then he was selected in Twenty20 World Championship and rewarded by a “Central Contract” in July 2007 before representing Pakistan in the home ODI series in opposition to South Africa. Later-on he coupled with the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League and performed very well for the Lahore Badshahs, but when the PCB pardoned players to have severed ties with the ICL, Imran Nazir was soon called back into the ODI side.
Gujranwala, Pakistan
Batting style Right hand bat
Bowling style Right arm leg break
Role Batsman
ODI shirt no. 16
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I F-C
Matches 8 79 16 106
Runs scored 427 1,895 324 5336
Batting average 32.84 24.61 23.14 32.54
100s/50s 2/1 2/9 0/2 7/30
Top score 131 160 59 164
Balls bowled – 49 49 424
Wickets – 1 1 7
Bowling average – 48.00 48.00 48.42
5 wickets in innings – 0 0 0
10 wickets in match – 0 0 0
Best bowling – 1/3 1/3 3/61
Catches/stumpings 4/– 26/– 4/0 76/0

Imran Nazir (Urdu: عمران نذیر) (born 16 December 1981) is a Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches.
Career

Nazir made his debut in Test cricket on March 1999, against Sri Lanka at Lahore in Pakistan and a few days later, he made his One Day International debut against the same opposition at Visakhapatnam in India. He played in 8 Test matches between 1999–2002 and secured a spot in the Pakistan squad since 2002. He also played in One Day International arena, but he could never cement his place in the squad. The emergence of several Pakistan opening batsmen such as Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Taufeeq Umar and Salman Butt kept him out of the national side. However he displayed excellent cricketing performances in First class cricket.

Nazir made his return to the national team in the second One Day International against South Africa in February 2007 during Pakistan's tour of South Africa. He impressed the Pakistan national selectors with his innings of 57 runs from just 39 deliveries, though he struggled to score runs during the rest of the tournament.
International Debut: 1999
Batting and fielding records
M Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Test 8 13 0 427 131 32.85 730 58.49 2 1 63 4 4 -
ODI 79 79 2 1895 160 24.61 2339 81.02 2 9 235 32 26 -
T20I 16 15 1 324 59 23.14 235 137.87 - 2 32 19 6 -

Bowling records
M Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Eco SR 4W 5W 10W
Test 8 - - - - - - - - - - - -
ODI 79 4 49 48 1 1/3 1/3 48.00 5.88 49.00 - - -
T20I 16 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Career Statistics
Test Debut: Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lahore, 04-08, Mar 1999
ODI Debut: Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Visakhapatnam, Mar 27, 1999
Twenty20 Debut: South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg, Feb 02, 2007
Nazir was named in Pakistan's squad for the 2007 World Cup. He scored 160 runs against Zimbabwe in Pakistan's last match during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, after being knocked out by Ireland.

It was the second highest score by a Pakistani batsman and the eighth highest score by any batsman in World Cup history and his 8 sixes equaled the World Cup record of Australian batsman, Ricky Ponting.[1] It was also the highest runs he scored in List A cricket.[2] He now remains a regular member of Pakistan's Twenty20 squads.

In 2008, Nazir signed for the Indian Cricket League and played for the Lahore Badshahs. He scored 111 runs not out, off just 44 deliveries, against the Hyderabad Heroes in the third of the best of three finals of the tournament and helped his team to victory. After signing up for the Indian Cricket League, his chances of ever playing again for Pakistan looked slim. However, on 2 February 2009, a Pakistani court suspended the ban on Indian Cricket League players,[3] which paved the way for Nazir to make a return to the One Day International and Twenty20 squad during their tour of Sri Lanka in August 2009. He was given another chance against New Zealand int two T20I's held in Dubai which Pakistan won 2-0. Next time, he was given a chance against Australia in only T20I in Australia but could not bat much. He showed the same form against England in February 2010 in two T2OI's and was consequently dropped from the Pakistani side. Since then, he has played two National T20 cups and shown really bad form. He was selected for the Hong Kong Sixes tournament 2010 in Hong Kong as a member of Pakistani squad. There again, he showed very bad form but worst of all, in the final which was inevitably in Pakistan's favor was lost due Imran Nazir's bowling. 46 was required from the last 8-ball over but Imran Nazir gave away 48 runs in 7 balls.

In Twenty20 games he has an extraordinary bowling average of 1.00 and in his 8 deliveries he has 3 wickets a strike rate of less than 3. He has also played for Dhaka Dynamites in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Bangladesh.
Test cricket centuries

He scored 131 runs against the West Indies at Bridgetown in the Caribbean on 18 May 2000.
He scored 127 runs against New Zealand at Lahore in Pakistan on 1 May 2002.
One Day International centuries

He scored 160 runs against Zimbabwe at Kingston Park in West Indies on 21 March 2007
He scored 105 runs not out against Zimbabwe at National Cricket Stadium in Morocco on 15 April 2000 and became the second youngest batsman to score a century in a One Day International match.