Saqlain Mushtaq
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Test debut (cap 134) | 8 September 1995 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 1 April 2004 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 103) | 29 September 1995 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 7 October 2003 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1994–2004 | Pakistan Intl. Airlines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994–1998 | Islamabad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997–2008 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2004 | Lahore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 December 2009 |
Saqlain Mushtaq (born 29 December 1976) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former international
A right-arm
Early life and family
Saqlain was born to a government clerk on 29 December 1976, in Lahore into a Punjabi Muslim family. His ancestral home is in village Chali Khoo in Amritsar district of East Punjab, now in India. He has two elder brothers: Sibtain, who also played
Saqlain Mushtaq married Sana Mushtaq, a
Career
Domestic career
Saqlain started his first-class career in 1994–95 at the age of 17. In his first season, he took 52 wickets and was selected to play for Pakistan A in a one-day tournament at Dhaka. In September 1995, he got international recognition, taking seven wickets for the PCB Patron's Eleven against the visiting Sri Lankans. Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram said of him that he was "the greatest off-spinner he has seen" and "as aggressive as a fast bowler, not afraid of getting hit, and has this total belief in himself."[8]
Saqlain represented
In February 2006 he signed for Ireland for the
In April 2009 he joined Old Whitgiftians CC
International career
Test career
Saqlain made his Test debut in September 1995 against Sri Lanka at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar.[5] He picked up four wickets at an average of 26.75 in the match,[25] and accumulated nine wickets in the series from two Tests.[26] His next remarkable series was against the same team, after which he topped the list of wicket-takers with 14 in two Tests,[27] including nine wickets in the first match of the series.[28] Six months later he took a five-wicket haul against South Africa at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium—first Test of the home series.[29] In the next home series, against West Indies, he played in the third Test at the National Stadium, Karachi. He took nine wickets for 80 runs, earning him the man-of-the-match award and ensuring Pakistan's clean sweep against the touring side.[30] His next prominent performance was against Zimbabwe at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, where he claimed a five-wicket haul.[31]
The highlight of his Test career came in the away series against India in 1999, where he achieved his first ten-wicket haul in a Test match. He took five-wicket hauls in both innings of the match,
In November 1999, when Pakistan toured Australia, he took 10 wickets in two Test matches, including six wickets for 46 runs in Hobart.
Saqlain played 49 Test matches for Pakistan during 1995 and 2004 and accumulated 208 wickets at an average of 29.83. He took 13 five-wicket hauls and three ten-wicket hauls, and his best performance for a match was 10 wickets for 155 runs.
One Day International career
Saqlain made his
Coaching career
On 28 May 2016, Saqlain Mushtaq was appointed by the ECB as England's spin consultant for the home series against Pakistan.[50]
On 29 October 2016, the ECB decided to use Saqlain's services to prepare
On 6 September 2021, he was appointed the interim head coach of Pakistan national cricket team by PCB after Misbah-ul-Haq's resignation from the post.[53] In February 2022, due to team's excellent performance under him, his contract was extended for a year.[3]
Playing style
Saqlain is credited with the invention of the "doosra", an off-spinner's delivery bowled with an action similar to that of an off-break.[15] However, it spins in the opposite direction (i.e. from the leg side to the off side), confusing batsmen, which makes it an effective weapon.[54] Saqlain became well known for this variation ball, which was integral to his success, although he received criticism for overusing it.[5] Other bowlers like Shoaib Malik, Saeed Ajmal, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Johan Botha and Harbhajan Singh also used this delivery in international cricket.
During his time at
His other variation was the arm ball, which again uses a similar grip to the leg-break, but imparts back-spin instead of side-spin and causes the ball to go straight on.
Records and achievements
- He has taken 13 Test five-wicket hauls with 3 Test tenfers. In ODI, he took seven five-wicket hauls.
- Saqlain was selected as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2000.[8]
- A statistical analysis conducted by Wisden in 2003 revealed Saqlain as the all-time greatest ODI spinner, and the sixth-greatest ODI bowler.[2]
- Was the fastest to reach the milestones of 100, 150, 200 and 250 wickets in ODIs.[58]
- He was the first of only two spinners to have taken a hat-trick in an ODI (the other being Abdur Razzak), and the second of only four bowlers to have taken two ODI hat-tricks (Wasim Akram, Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga being the others),[59] the second of which was only the second hat-trick in a World Cup match.[60][61]
- He holds the record for the most wickets in a calendar year in ODIs-69 wickets in 1997. He is also second in this elite list with 65 wickets in 1996.[62]
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