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Kabir Khan (cricketer)

Kabir Khan
Personal information
Full name Mohammad Kabir Khan
Born (1974-04-12) 12 April 1974 (age 43)
Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 132) 26 August 1994 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 9 February 1995 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 95) 11 September 1994 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 27 August 2000 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
1995–2005 Habib Bank Limited
1993–1994 House Building Finance Corporation
1990–2004 Peshawar
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 4 10 114 93
Runs scored 24 10 1,459 257
Batting average 8.00 10.00 13.38 6.94
100s/50s –/– –/– –/3 –/–
Top score 10 5 66* 27
Balls bowled 655 371 17,230 3,946
Wickets 9 12 437 114
Bowling average 41.11 25.25 21.18 25.14
5 wickets in innings 26
10 wickets in match 3
Best bowling 3/26 2/23 8/52 4/20
Catches/stumpings 1/– 1/– 44/– 20/–
Source: Cricinfo, 27 May 2009

Mohammad Kabir Khan (Pashto: محمد کبير خان‎; born 12 April 1974) is a Pakistani cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for the Pakistan national cricket team. He was the coach of the Afghanistan national cricket team, before resiging his post citing interference with the Afghanistan board management. on 31 December 2011 he was again appointed coach of Afghanistan national cricket team for a period of 3 Years. He is the key person to take Afghanistan to 2010 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20.

Kabir Khan was born in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan in 1979. He is an ethnic Pashtun and his father hails from Afghanistan.

Playing career A seam bowler with considerable pace, Khan first played on the Sri Lankan tour of 1994–95, and made sporadic one-day appearances for the next six years. However, he never established a long-term role in the side, having only participated in ten One Day International, finding it tough to break into a Pakistan side sporting both Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. This was despite a respectable bowling average of just over 25. Khan ended up playing 4 Test matches and 10 One Day Internationals for Pakistan.


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