Saqlain Mushtaq
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| Full name | Saqlain Mushtaq | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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29 December 1976 Lahore, Pakistan |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 134) | 8 September 1995 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 1 April 2004 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 103) | 29 September 1995 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 October 2003 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1994–2004 | Pakistan Intl. Airlines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1998 | Islamabad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997–2008 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Lahore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 December 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saqlain Mushtaq (Urdu: ثقلین مشتاق) (born 29 December 1976) is a Pakistani cricketer. ,widely regarded as the best bowlers in the history of cricket. cricketer. He is best known for pioneering the "doosra", a leg break delivery bowled with an off break action. Saqlain has not been active in international cricket since 2004. A right-arm off break bowler, Saqlain played 49 Test matches and 169 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Pakistan, between 1995 and 2004. He took 208 Test and 288 ODIs wickets. He also scored Test Match century, against New Zealand, in March 2001. Saqlain was the quickest bowler in history of ODI to reach 100 wickets. He is also the youngest bowler to take 100 wickets and 200 wickets in ODI cricket.
Saqlain was born on 29 December 1976, in Lahore to a government clerk. He has two elder brothers, Sibtain, who also played first-class cricket for Lahore, and Zulqurnain. Saqlain played for Govt. M.A.O College Lahore for three years and college won the Championship each year. Saqlain never played cricket at school level, but start paying cricket in Zariff Memorial Club Second Eleven when he was only 13. He always wanted to be an off-spinner: " I never wanted to be a quick bowler. I was very skinny and never had too much strength in the body." Saqlain was coached by his brothers, and Ahmed Hassan at the club level. At the age of 14 he went to the Govt. M.A.O College Lahore where he was coached by Mumtaz Akhtar Butt. He played for the college and won the championship for three consecutive years.
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