Pakistan's T20 captain Mohammed Hafeez
Muhammed Hafeez is a Pakistani cricket player , born in 17 October 1980. He is a right -hand opening batsman and he is a right-arm off spin bowler. Hafeez is a Pakistani opener. Now, he is the captain of Pakistan cricket team in T20 format. In 2012-13 , he has been ranked as the top all-rounder by the ICC Player Ranking in T20 format. He is an intelligent batsman. He was not only the fourth international player signed to the Caribbean Premier League but also the first Pakistani player to be named to the new T20 tournament.
In early international career 2003 to 2006, Mohammed Hafeez was a young all-rounder at that time, whom the Pakistani cricket team turned to in order to revitalize their side after their poor performance in 2003 World Cup. In this tournament Pakistan was out of from in first round. In his batting and bowling he was inconsistent, and because of his poor performance he was dropped from the Test squad and subsequently from the ODI side.
On his strong domestic performances, and display of good form for the Pakistan A side, he remained on the fringes of a recall in 2004. Than, in 2005 Hafeez returned to the ODI side. Hafeez backed to the ODI side and despite poor from with the bat, his performances in bowling were impressive. He smashed his 1st century for Pakistan, In the 2006 series held in Australia. Than, he was recall for the tour of England. There, he made good performance and scored a fluent 95. After this, Hafeez retained his place in test squad for Pakistan's home series against the West Indies in November of that year.
In 2010, he was recalled for the third ICC World T20 squad. But there, his performance was poor , he scored only 39 runs and gets only 2 wickets in 6 matches. In spite of his this performance, he selected for T20s and the ODIs on Pakistan's 2010 tour of England. There, he did not disappointed us and retained his place. He played in all ODI matches ending up as the top run scorer. In those ODIs matches, he not only played top run scorer but also topped the bowling average for the series. At the end of 2010, he was also selected for the New Zealand and West Indies tours. There, he establishing himself as a regular in Test, T20 and ODI teams. In 2011, he won 10 Man of the match awards in all form of international cricket and became only the third player to score 1000 runs and take 30 wickets in ODI match within a calender year (after Sanath Jayasuriya and Jacques Kallis).
During the tour of Pakistan cricket team in India 2012-13, in December 2012, he gave a brilliant performance in 1st T 20 and ODI. In the second T 20 he scored a mountain highest score (191). Pakistan won their first ODI series in India since 7 years. Now, Mohammad Hafeez considered to be the main all-rounder of Pakistan Cricket Team.
In May 2012, Mohammad Hafeez was appointed as a captain of T 20 team and vice captain, under Misbah-ul-Haq, of the ODI and Test team. He was the 1st Pakistani captain whose hit three 50s in a row and become Pakistan's leading run scorer in T 20.
Achievements
As a captain he has the following achievements.
* He led SNGPL to their 1st Quaid-e-Azam trophy.
* He lifted the Faisal Bank T 20 for Lahore lions.
* He captained Pakistan victory over Pakistan in 2010.
Muhammad Hafeez batting, bowling and all round career are available in this post.
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