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Fawad Alam

Fawad Alam
فواد عالم
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Fawad in 2010
Personal information
Full name Fawad Alam
Born (1985-10-08) 8 October 1985 (age 31)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Role Batting All-Rounder
Relations Tariq Alam (Father)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 196) 12 July 2009 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 24 November 2009 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 156) 22 May 2007 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 22 April 2015 v Bangladesh
T20I debut 4 September 2007 v Kenya
Last T20I 26 December 2010 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years Team
2003–2006 Pakistan Customs
2003 – present Karachi Dolphins
2006–2007 Karachi Harbour
2006 – present National Bank of Pakistan
2008–2009 Sind Dolphins
2012–2013 Duronto Rajshahi
2016 Karachi Kings
2016– Present Karachi Blues
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 3 35 24 100
Runs scored 250 948 194 7,646
Batting average 41.66 46.52 17.63 55.40
100s/50s 1/0 1/6 20/38
Top score 168 114* 28 296*
Balls bowled 0 374 90 2,301
Wickets 4 8 29
Bowling average 86.00 41.39 39.65
5 wickets in innings 0 - 0
10 wickets in match n/a 0
Best bowling 1/8 3/7 4/27
Catches/stumpings 3/– 9/– 7/– 47/–
Source: ESPN CricInfo, 26 March 2015

Fawad Alam (Urdu: فواد عالم, born 8 October 1985) is a Pakistani cricketer. He is primarily a left-handed batsman but bowls handy slow left-arm orthodox. Batting average wise, he is the only Pakistani in all time 20 great batsmen of first class cricket.

His father Tariq Alam had a long first class career in Pakistan. Fawad currently captains the National Bank of Pakistan cricket team (NBP cricket team) and Pakistan A cricket team. He is a rotating batsman in the Pakistani cricket team.

Making his first class debut at the age of 17, Fawad played with Pakistan Customs and Karachi. He impressed enough to be selected to play in the U-19 World Cup, which Pakistan won.

Fawad starred in the 2006–07 domestic season, finishing as the fifth highest run scorer in the Quaid-e-Azam trophy. He took a 5 wicket haul in the Twenty20 Cup final which earned him Man of the Match and was also named Man of the Series, Best Batsman and Best Bowler.

After Pakistan's disappointing World Cup campaign, Alam was drafted into a 16-man squad for a One Day International series against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi. His debut in the 3rd ODI was one to forget, he was caught and bowled by Dilhara Fernando for a first ball duck.

His second One-day International was a better experience, as he contributed 32 unbeaten runs down the order as Pakistan beat India by 31 runs in Jaipur.

In between those two matches, he travelled to South Africa as part of Pakistan's squad for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. He played in the semi-final, taking two wickets against New Zealand, one a superb caught and bowled effort to dismiss Lou Vincent, as Pakistan progressed to the final, for which he was not selected. In Asia Cricket Cup in June 2008, he scored his maiden half century against Hong Kong. In that match, Pakistan's top order was ripped by Hong Kong bowlers before Fawad and another team mate Sohail Tanvir set up a 100 runs partnership for the 8th wicket. Sohail ended at 59 while Fawad Alam remained unbeaten at 63*. However, he was unexpectedly dropped for the Sri Lanka series in January 2009.


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