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PLAYER BIO

Kamran Akmal

  • Matches

    1077
  • Runs

    33947
  • Wickets

    0
Role Batsman
Batting Style Right-hand bat
Bowling Style Legbreak googly
Nationality Pakistan
Nickname Kamran Akmal
DOB 13 January 1982

Kamran Akmal may well be the most emphatic proof of cricket's changed priorities post Adam Gilchrist. Sides now search for an explosive batsman who can change a day, an innings, a phase with the bat and so long as you can identify right wicketkeeping glove from left, the place is yours. There has been little doubt about Akmal's batting. The purity of his drives and the strength of his cutting and pulling, particularly on slower subcontinent surfaces, has always held a strong allure. And when it comes together as it did one January morning in Karachi against India - one of the Test innings of that decade - he makes it in the side as a batsman alone. But his glovework, which began so promisingly when he effectively ended the dogfight between Rashid Latif and Moin Khan in late 2004, has deteriorated alarmingly and few Pakistan matches are complete without a clumsy Akmal error. It wasn't always thus, for he was good when he began, good enough to impress Ian Healy. But non-stop cricket in all three formats have let technical errors creep in and critics and experts have long pushed for the need for him to take a break. To quality spin, he is often as lost as the batsmen and Danish Kaneria, over the years, has suffered in particular. In a string of error-ridden performances, the one nobody will forget will be the four dropped catches (and a missed run-out) in the Sydney Test of 2009-10, which allowed Australia to escape with a remarkable, traumatic win. Against this the memory of his Karachi hundred will always battle, with no clear winner ever likely to emerge. The tryst with controversy does his cause no good, with his refusal to accept his demotion from the side in the aftermath of a disastrous Sydney Test in 2009, eliciting a harsh fine and a disciplinary probation from the PCB.


BATTING AVERAGES

Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s
Test 53 92 6 2648 158** 30.79 4196 63.10 6 12 372 14
ODI 157 138 14 3236 124* 26.09 3855 83.94 5 10 378 37
T20 242 225 19 5688 150** 27.61 4262 133.45 4 40 642 201
F-C 235 363 32 12463 275* 37.65 0 30 59 0 0
List A 336 301 24 9015 200* 32.54 0 21 34 0 0
T20I 54 49 6 897 73* 20.86 745 120.40 0 5 90 27

BOWLING AVERAGES

Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Test 53 0 0 0 0 - - 0.00 0 0 0
ODI 157 0 0 0 0 - - 0.00 0 0 0
T20 242 0 0 0 0 - - 0.00 0 0 0
F-C 235 0 54 44 0 - - 0.00 4.88 0 0 0
List A 336 0 0 0 0 - - 0.00 0 0 0
T20I 58 0 0 0 0 - - 0.00 0 0 0

CAREER STATISTICS

Test debut Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Harare, Nov 9-12, 2002
Last Test England v Pakistan at Lord's, Aug 26-29, 2010
ODI debut Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Bulawayo, Nov 23, 2002
Last ODI West Indies v Pakistan at Providence, Apr 11, 2017
T20I debut England v Pakistan at Bristol, Aug 28, 2006
Last T20I West Indies v Pakistan at Port of Spain, Apr 2, 2017
First-Class debut 1997/98
Last First-Class Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited v Water and Power Development Authority at Karachi, Dec 21-25, 2017
List A debut 1997/98
Last List A Lahore Blues v Rawalpindi at Rawalpindi, Jan 29, 2018