Full name Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi
Born May 28, 1974, Mianwali, Punjab
Current age 35 years 46 days
Major teams Pakistan, Khan Research Labs, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sargodha
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

Full name Mohammad Yousuf
Born August 27, 1974, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 34 years 320 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Lahore Badshahs, Lancashire, Pakistan International Airlines, Water and Power Development Authority
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Full name Kamran Akmal
Born January 13, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 27 years 181 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Lahore, National Bank of Pakistan, Rajasthan Royals
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Relation Brother - Adnan Akmal, Brother - Umar Akmal

Full name Ahmed Shehzad
Born November 23, 1991, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 17 years 232 days
Major teams Pakistan, Habib Bank Limited, Lahore Eagles, Lahore Ravi, Lahore Shalimar, Pakistan Under-19s
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

Full name Yasir Arafat Satti
Born March 12, 1982, Rawalpindi, Punjab
Current age 27 years 123 days
Major teams Pakistan, Scotland, Kent, Khan Research Labs, Pakistan Reserves, Rawalpindi, Redco Pakistan Ltd, Sussex
Also known as Yas
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

Full name Sohail Tanvir
Born December 12, 1984, Rawalpindi, Punjab
Current age 24 years 213 days
Major teams Pakistan, Rajasthan Royals, Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi Rams, Rawalpindi Region
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium-fast, Slow left-arm orthodox

Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age 29 years 134 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Deccan Chargers, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Legbreak googly
Relation Brother - Tariq Afridi, Brother - Ashfaq Afridi

Full name Saeed Ajmal
Born October 14, 1977, Faisalabad, Punjab
Current age 31 years 272 days
Major teams Pakistan, Faisalabad, Islamabad Cricket Association, Khan Research Labs, Water and Power Development Authority
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Full name Rao Iftikhar Anjum
Born December 1, 1980, Khanewal, Punjab
Current age 28 years 224 days
Major teams Pakistan, Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad Cricket Association
Also known as Rao Iftikhar
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria

Full name Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria
Born December 16, 1980, Karachi, Sind
Current age 28 years 209 days
Major teams Pakistan, Essex, Habib Bank Limited, Karachi, Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, Pakistan Reserves
Nickname Nani-Danny
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

Fawad Alam

Pakistan
Full name Fawad Alam
Born October 8, 1985, Karachi
Current age 23 years 278 days
Major teams Pakistan, Karachi Cricket Association Under-19s, Karachi Dolphins, National Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan Customs, Pakistan Emerging Team
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Relation Father - Tariq Alam

Abdul Razzaq

Pakistan
Full name Abdul Razzaq
Born December 2, 1979, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 29 years 223 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Hyderabad Heroes, ICL Pakistan XI, Khan Research Labs, Lahore, Lahore Lions, Middlesex, Pakistan International Airlines, Surrey, Worcestershire
Also known as Abdur Razzaq
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v Pakistan at Brisbane, Nov 5-9, 1999 scorecard
Last Test
Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi, Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
- Statsguru Test analysis - Player analysis menu/filter Test match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Bowling match list Best innings bowling Best match bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
ODI debut
Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Lahore, Nov 1, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Abu Dhabi, May 20, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
- Statsguru ODI analysis - Player analysis menu/filter ODI match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
T20I debut
England v Pakistan at Bristol, Aug 28, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I
Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lord's, Jun 21, 2009 scorecard
T20I statistics
- Statsguru T20I analysis - Player analysis menu/filter T20I match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
First-class debut
1996/97
Last First-class
Habib Bank Limited v Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited at Sheikhupura, Feb 19-22, 2009 scorecard
List A debut
1996/97
Last List A
Pakistan International Airlines v Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited at Islamabad, Mar 27, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lord's, Jun 21, 2009 scorecard
Profile
Abdul 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. Osman Samiuddin June 2009

Former players question team composition

Former Pakistan players have blamed the side's unexpected loss to Sri Lanka in the Galle Test on poor team composition, with Moin Khan and Sarfraz Nawaz questioning the absence of Fawad Alam, a left-hand batsman who also bowls left-arm spin, from the XI.
"[Alam] scored 80 odd runs in the warm-up game, he's also an excellent fielder and a player who can also bowl left-arm spin, I fail to understand why he was left out," Moin, a former captain, told AP.
Pakistan were set 168 to win the Test and began day four needing 97 with eight wickets in hand. They proceeded to lose all eight for 46 runs in the first session

One-day tournaments

Domestic one-day tournaments in Pakistan have often lacked structure and continuity, with tournaments being launched and discontinued frequently. The premier competition was the Wills Cup, which commenced in 1980-81 as a 45-overs-a-side contest. The Wills Gold Flake League was added in the early 1990s but lasted only five seasons. The advent of ABN -AMRO as a sponsor in 2004-05 was a fillip to domestic cricket in Pakistan, taking over the sponsorship of three limited-overs tournaments - the ABN-AMRO Cup (between regions), Patrons Cup (between departments) and the new Twenty20 tournament. The ABN-AMRO Cup has teams divided into two leagues - Gold and Silver - with a winner emerging from each league. The Patrons Cup is contested between departments.

Pentangular Trophy

The Pentangular Trophy is contested between five teams which play each other on a round-robin basis and the team with the highest points is declared the winner. Initially, the Pakistan board decided which five teams would be included in the tournament, but later a qualification system was introduced. On most occasions, the top three teams of the particular season's Patron's Trophy qualified and the other two were the winners and runners-up of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. However, the tournament didn't always have five teams, as the name would suggest. Six teams took part in its second season without changing the title. There were up to ten teams in the late '70s, and the title was changed to the BCCP Invitation Tournament. Pakistan Automobile Corporation (PACO) was the tournament's first sponsor in 1980-81 and the title was changed to the PACO Cup for five seasons. However, the tournament never remained a permanent fixture, with it being discontinued for nearly six years after that. The title reverted to the Pentangular Trophy and made sporadic appearances

Hafeez dropped from 'A' team to tour Sri Lanka

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Pakistan cricket
Hafeez dropped from 'A' team to tour Sri Lanka
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Faisal Iqbal will lead Pakistan 'A' on their tour of Sri Lanka © AFP
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Players/Officials: Faisal Iqbal Mohammad Hafeez
Teams: Pakistan
Faisal Iqbal will lead a 16-man Pakistan 'A' squad on a tour of Sri Lanka in August, interim chief selector Wasim Bari said on Friday. Iqbal is currently in Sri Lanka as part of the senior national team, as is opener Khurram Manzoor who was also named in the 'A' side.

Pakistan 'A' is currently touring Australia, and two players - captain Mohammad Hafeez and Azeem Ghumman - from that side have been left out for the matches against Sri Lanka 'A'. The tour of Australia ends on July 18, with two ODIs and a Twenty20 yet to played.
Khan Research Laboratories left-arm spinner Nayyer Abbas and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited legspinner Yasir Shah are the two newcomers in the side to visit Sri Lanka, after failing to make the cut for the Australia trip.
In Sri Lanka, the 'A' team will play two four-day games and five ODIs from August 2 to August 28.

Squad: Khalid Latif, Umar Amin, Azhar Ali, Khurram Manzoor, Umar Akmal, Faisal Iqbal (capt), Fahad Iqbal, Sheharyar Ghani, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Mohammad Talha, Fahad Masood, Wahab Riaz, Abdul Rehman, Yasir Shah, Naved Arif, Nayyar Abbas.

Pakistan wrest back initiative with all-round show

Pakistan 90 and 178 for 1 (Fawad 102*) lead Sri Lanka 240 (Sangakkara 87, Gul 4-43) by 28 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsHow they were out
Fawad Alam's tenacious yet fluent effort made him the 10th Pakistan batsman to score a century on debut, but the first to do so overseas © Associated Press
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Teams: Pakistan Sri Lanka
Fawad Alam, Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal fashioned an extraordinary turnaround on the second day at the P Sara Oval, with Pakistan dominating as completely as they had been dominated on the opening day. Led by superb spells from Gul and an outstanding century on debut from Fawad, Pakistan recovered from a disastrous first innings, limited their deficit to 150, and, by the end of the day two, had wiped off the arrears and moved ahead, losing only one wicket in the process.

When the day began, Sri Lanka were so far ahead it seemed almost inevitable they would rectify their record of never having won a home series against Pakistan. However, so thoroughly did Pakistan control all three sessions that Sri Lanka will have uncomfortable thoughts about chasing a stiff fourth-innings target on a wearing pitch. So far Pakistan had set all the wrong records in this series, but they got it right here: Fawad's tenacious yet fluent effort made him the 10th Pakistan batsman to score a century on debut, but the first to do so overseas.

Thanks to that effort and the amazing bowling display, Pakistan can dream about chasing another record: only once have they won a Test after conceding a larger first-innings deficit - against New Zealand in Wellington in 2003, when they trailed by 170 but eventually won by seven wickets.

There were question marks being raised about Pakistan's commitment after there capitulation in the series so far, but as is their wont, they hit back just when their chances had been written off. The pitch remained a pretty good one for batting, though the bounce had diminished, but Pakistan relied on lethal spells of reverse swing, aided by steady spin and an inspirational bit of fielding, to launch an astonishing revival, and then continued it with an utterly disciplined and purposeful batting display.