Waqar Younus Biography
source link(google.com)Waqar Younis Maitla, born 16 November 1971) is a former Pakistani right-arm fast bowler in cricket and widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. Waqar is current coach of Pakistan Cricket team.
As of
2012, he holds the record for the youngest Pakistani Test captain and the third
youngest Test captain in history (22 years 15 days). He played 87 Tests and 262 One Day International (ODI) matches for Pakistan during his international cricket career
from 1989 to 2003.
Younis'
trademark was his ability to reverse swing a cricket ball at high speed. He took 373 Test wickets and 416 One Day International wickets
during his career. Together with bowling partner Wasim Akram, he
formed one of the world's most feared bowling attacks. Younus has the best strike rate for any bowler with over 350 Test wickets. He worked as a bowling coach with the
national side from 2006 to 2007.
Style
Waqar is one of several Pakistani
fast bowlers, beginning with Sarfraz Nawaz
, who have been
successful at bowling reverse swing. In partnership with
Akram, Younis opened the Pakistan bowling attack in the 1990s. Cricket critics and
scholars attribute Younis and Akram to be one of the most effective fast
bowling partnerships in cricket, due to their ability to swing the ball at high
speed. The ability to reverse swing and his speed led to him becoming one of
the most talented bowlers in modern cricket.
Award and records
Waqar was
named among the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1992 for his sporting achievements.
He is also the only bowler to have taken 5 wickets in an innings in 3
consecutive One Day International matches. In terms of deliveries bowled, he
has taken the fastest 50, 300, 350 and 400 wickets in One Day International
matches and the fastest 150, 200, 250, 300 and 350 wickets in Test matches.
Although
primarily a fast bowler, Waqar scored 1010 Test match runs during his career.
As of September 2005, he was the only non-batsman to achieve a thousand runs
without scoring a fifty. Waqar holds the record for the best strike rate for
any bowler with over 350 Test wickets.
Coaching
In March 2006, he was appointed as the
bowling coach for Pakistan. He resigned from this position on 6 January
2007 in protest against the Pakistan Cricket Board decision to retain him only
for the Test series against South Africa and not for the subsequent series of
five One Day International matches. He also blamed captain Inzimam-ul-Haq for
going with Mushtaq Ahmed instead of him for the bowling coach position. He
was re-appointed as Pakistan's bowling and fielding coach for their tour of
Australia in December 2009. In February 2010, Younis was appointed the
head coach of Pakistan after intikab Alam was
sacked as coach, owing to the low level of performances of the national side
during the tour of Australia earlier that year.
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