*** Welcome to piglix ***

Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan at the Domestic Airport.jpg
Irfan Pathan
Personal information
Full name Irfan Khan
Born (1984-10-27) 27 October 1984 (age 32)
vadodara, Gujarat, India
Nickname batati
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left arm fast medium
Role All-rounder
Relations Yusuf Pathan (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 248) 12 December 2003 v Australia
Last Test 5 April 2008 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 153) 9 January 2004 v Australia
Last ODI 4 Aug 2012 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no. 56
T20I debut (cap 7) 1 December 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I 2 October 2012 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
2000–present Baroda
2005 Middlesex
2008–2010 Kings XI Punjab
2011–2013 Delhi Daredevils (squad no. 56)
2014 Sunrisers Hyderabad (squad no. 56)
2015 Chennai Super Kings (squad no. 56)
2016 Rising Pune Supergiants (squad no. 28)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC T20Is
Matches 29 120 94 24
Runs scored 1,105 1,544 3,303 172
Batting average 31.89 23.39 31.45 24.57
100s/50s 1/9 0/5 2/18 0/0
Top score 102 83 121 33*
Balls bowled 5884 5,855 18484 462
Wickets 100 173 338 28
Bowling average 32.26 29.72 28.55 22.07
5 wickets in innings 7 2 17 0
10 wickets in match 2 0 3 n/a
Best bowling 7/59 5/27 7/35 3/16
Catches/stumpings 8/– 21/– 27/– 2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 5 November 2012

Irfan Khan Pathan (About this sound pronunciation ; born 27 October 1984) is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in the 2003/04 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team. Since then, he has been in and out of the limited-overs teams (ODIs and T20Is), and has only sporadic appearances in Test cricket. Pathan played his last Test in April, 2008 at the age of 24.

Beginning his career as a fast-medium swing and seam bowler, Pathan broke into the national team soon after turning 19, and evoked comparisons with Pakistan's Wasim Akram with his promising performances and prodigious swing. He cemented his position in the team and was named by the International Cricket Council as the 2004 Emerging Player of the Year. Pathan was instrumental in India's One-day international and Test series wins in Pakistan in 2004. He was described by the media as the "blue-eyed boy" of the Indian cricket. In late-2004 he took 18 wickets in two Tests against Bangladesh, but the start of 2005 he performed poorly and conceded runs at a high rate, leading to a brief exile from the one-day international (ODI) team.

Immediately thereafter, Australian Greg Chappell, one of the leading batsmen of his time, became India's coach (2005) and identified Pathan's batting potential. Pathan improved his batting skills and tried to become a complete bowling all-rounder, and he opened the batting on occasions in ODIs and scored 93 in a Test match (10 Dec 2005, versus Sri Lanka in Delhi) in the role after an illness to Virender Sehwag. He made three scores beyond 80 in the space of four Test innings against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. For the first nine months of Chappell's stint at the helm, Pathan performed strongly with both bat and ball, scoring runs regularly and frequently taking top-order wickets. He rose to No. 2 in the ICC's ODI rankings for all-rounders and was also in the top five in the Test rankings. This led critics to compare him to former Indian pace bowling allrounder Kapil Dev.


...
Wikipedia

...