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Mohammad Sami
Pakistan
Full name
Mohammad Sami
Born February 24, 1981, Karachi, Sind
Current age 26 years 11 days
Major teams Pakistan, Karachi, Kent, National Bank of Pakistan,
Pakistan Customs
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Statsguru
Test player,
ODI player
|
Batting and fielding averages |
|
|
Mat |
Inns |
NO |
Runs |
HS |
Ave |
BF |
SR |
100 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
Ct |
St |
|
Tests |
30 |
46 |
11 |
382 |
49 |
10.91 |
1231 |
31.03 |
0 |
0 |
43 |
2 |
7 |
0 |
|
ODIs |
79 |
43 |
19 |
275 |
46 |
11.45 |
434 |
63.36 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
9 |
18 |
0 |
|
First-class |
81 |
107 |
34 |
1034 |
49 |
14.16 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
|
|
30 |
0 |
|
List A |
111 |
63 |
26 |
403 |
46 |
10.89 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
|
|
24 |
0 |
|
Twenty20 |
10 |
5 |
1 |
26 |
8 |
6.50 |
25 |
104.00 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
5 |
0 |
|
Bowling averages |
|
|
Mat |
Balls |
Runs |
Wkts |
BBI |
BBM |
Ave |
Econ |
SR |
4 |
5 |
10 |
|
Tests |
30 |
6252 |
3686 |
77 |
5/36 |
8/106 |
47.87 |
3.53 |
81.19 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
ODIs |
79 |
3908 |
3237 |
111 |
5/10 |
5/10 |
29.16 |
4.96 |
35.20 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
|
First-class |
81 |
14920 |
8692 |
283 |
8/64 |
|
30.71 |
3.49 |
52.72 |
|
14 |
2 |
|
List A |
111 |
5521 |
4576 |
159 |
6/20 |
6/20 |
28.77 |
4.97 |
34.72 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
|
Twenty20 |
10 |
233 |
283 |
7 |
2/14 |
2/14 |
40.42 |
7.28 |
33.28 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
One of a new generation
of Pakistan fast bowlers, Mohammad Sami initially forced his way into the
Test team with outstanding performances in domestic cricket and had an
immediate impact in his first Test with five wickets against New Zealand.
Then, in only his third Test, he notched a hat-trick, eking out the last
three Sri Lankans in the Asian Test Championship final and he also has an
ODI hat-trick. But since those early years, and especially after the World
Cup 2003, when he was expected to become the Pakistan spearhead after the
retirements of Wasim and Waqar, his story has been a fitful and thus far
disappointing one.
Series after series has
seen him disappoint as a stream of promising paceman have overtaken him,
including the likes of Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Umar Gul and Mohammad Asif.
Occasionally when the mood takes him, he can be threatening, as he was for
some of the India series in 2005, especially at Kolkatta and the occasional
ODI. For the most part he has been surprisingly ineffective and prone to
leaking runs. So poor was his form after the India series in early 2006, he
was finally dropped from the tour to Sri Lanka was lucky to be selected for
the tour to England that summer, after a number of Pakistan's frontline
bowlers were injured.
Nobody seems to be
entirely sure where the problem lies either - he has been given the new-ball
with license to attack, he has come on as first-change. He is fit - one of
the fittest in the team - and athletic. From a shortish run-up and high
action he generates surprising pace, settled in the mid-to-late eighties but
with occasional forays into the nineties. He also quickly mastered
traditional outswing and reverse-swing and bowls a mean yorker. Some say it
is a confidence thing but a bowling average of nearly 50 after 26 Tests (and
a strike rate of over 80) means that opportunities might be limited when
other pacemen are fit again. It would have been an unthinkable thought when
he took eight wickets on his Test debut. |
