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Umar Gul

Umar Gul
عمرگل
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Personal information
Full name Umar Gul
Born (1984-04-14) 14 April 1984 (age 32)
Peshawar, Pakistan
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Batting style Right hand bat
Bowling style Right arm fast medium
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 175) 20 August 2003 v Bangladesh
Last Test 14–17 February 2013 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 145) 3 April 2003 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 15 March 2013 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 55
T20I debut 4 September 2007 v Kenya
Domestic team information
Years Team
2003– Peshawar
2006– Habib Bank Limited
2008–2009 Western Australia
2008 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2001–2006 Pakistan International Airlines
2016–present Quetta Gladiators (squad no. 55)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 47 116 52 84
Runs scored 577 414 160 1,156
Batting average 9.94 9.85 10.00 12.04
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/1
Top score 65* 39 32 65*
Balls bowled 9,599 5,407 1,050 16,456
Wickets 163 161 74 327
Bowling average 34.06 28.59 16.44 28.54
5 wickets in innings 4 2 2 16
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a 1
Best bowling 6/135 6/42 5/6 8/78
Catches/stumpings 11/– 15/– 18/– 20/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 March 2013

Umar Gul (Urdu: عمرگل, Pashto: عمرګل‎) (born 14 April 1984) is a Pakistani cricketer from Peshawar, Pakistan. He is a right arm fast medium bowler who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team. He has gained fame as one of the most successful bowlers in Twenty20 cricket finishing as the leading wicket taker and bowler in both the 2007 and 2009 Twenty20 World Championship tournaments. Umar Gul is the second most highest wicket taker (74) in Twenty20 International cricket, only behind Saeed Ajmal. He won the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year 2013.

Gul was born on April 14, 1984 in Peshawar, Pakistan in a middle-class family and frequently played tape-ball cricket. He was encouraged by his friends to become an international cricketer as they saw his excellent bowling.


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