Abdul Razzaq Biography
Abdul Razzaq
Full name Abdul Razzaq
Born December 2, 1979, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 31 years 117 days
Major
teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Hampshire, Hampshire 2nd XI, Hyderabad Heroes,
ICL Pakistan XI, Khan Research Labs, Lahore, Lahore Lions, Middlesex,
Pakistan International Airlines, Surrey, Worcestershire
Also known as Abdur Razzaq
Playing role Allrounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium.
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Razzaq was once rapid enough to open the bowling and remains composed
enough to bat anywhere, though he is discovering that the lower-order
suits him nicely. His bowling - the reason he was first noticed - is
characterised by a galloping approach, accuracy, and reverse-swing. But
it is his batting that is more likely to win matches. He boasts a
prodigious array of strokes and is particularly strong driving through
cover and mid-off off both front and back foot.He has two gears: block
or blast. Cut off the big shots and Razzaq gets bogged down, although
patience is his virtue as he demonstrated in a match-saving fifty
against India in Mohali in 2005. Just prior to that he had also played a
bewilderingly slow innings in Australia, scoring four runs in over two
hours. When the occasion demands it though, as ODIs often do, he can
still slog with the best of them: England were pillaged for a 22-ball 51
at the end of 2005. and then again for nearly 60 runs in the last three
overs of an ODI in September the following year.
It has hardly
been smooth sailing though through his career. He suffered a slump,
particularly in his bowling, between 2002 and 2004 when, though his
place in the team wasn't under threat, there was uncertainty over how
best to use him. But there were signs he was rediscovering some of his
old guile if not his pace and nip. And if the pitch is in anyway helpful
to seam - as it was in his first and only Test five-wicket haul at
Karachi in 2004 or against India at the same venue in January 2006 - he
can be a proper danger. Though Kamran Akmal's hundred overshadowed all
in the Karachi win over India, Razzaq's performance was easily his most
emphatic as an allrounder: he scored 45 and 90 as well as taking seven
wickets in the match. A combination of injuries and poor form put his
Test place into question and a knee injury days before the 2007 World
Cup meant Pakistan missed his presence in a disastrous campaign.A
lackluster comeback to international cricket against Sri Lanka in Abu
Dhabi and mediocre performance in the practice matches saw Razzaq being
omitted from the 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Championship and
consequently announce his retirement from international cricket. He then
went on to sign for Worcestershire towards the end of the county season
as well as signing up with the Indian Cricket League, which ruled him
out of Pakistan contention. He took back his decision to retire but
committed himself to the ICL for two seasons, during which he served the
Hyderabad Heroes as one of their star players.After a global amnesty
and quitting the ICL, he was welcomed back to the Pakistan fold for the
World Twenty20 in England and made an immediate impact as Pakistan won
the tournament. His Test comeback also looked set to be complete after
he was included in Pakistan's 15-man squad for the tour of Sri Lanka in
June. Early in his career he promised to be Pakistan's most complete
allrounder since Imran Khan, and though for a variety of reasons he
hasn't translated that into achievement, his country wouldn't mind
having just a very solid allrounder.
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