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Umar Akmal Biography

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Umar Akmal was born on 26 May 1990 and he is a Pakistani cricketer. He played his first ODI match on 1 August 2009 against Sri Lanka and then he played his first test match against New Zealand on Nov 23 2009. He is a part-time spinner and right handed batsman. Similar to his brothers Adnan and Kamran, he maintained wickets for the national team and his wife name is Noor Fatima.

He was introduced as a Franchise Player for the opening Caribbean Premier League with Pakistani teammates Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik.

Umar stand for Pakistan in the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup in Malaysia. Later on his accomplishment in the U/19 level he achieve himself a first class contract and played the 2007 -08 season of the Quaid-i-Azan Trophy, standing for the Sui Southern Gas team. His counted as a future asset for Pakistan National team.Umar cricket style is aggressive. In just his sixth first class competition he made 248 off just 225 deliveries, including for sixes. Then follow up that with a breakable 186 runs in his eight first class strings of low scores batting at number 3.He found his shape in the final matches of the 2008/9 season and afterward in the RBS T20 tournament consequently getting the selectors singed to play for Pakistan A side on their travel to Australia A.He got his reputation while the Australia A tour in June/July 2009. He recorded runs of 54100*, 1300 in the two Test matches. In the ODI series he proceeds with his better form with a century in the beginning ODI encounter off only 68 Deliveries.There functioning’s turns him gather significant admiration from the media who were their watch him and calls started to spread regarding his addition in the ODI series for the main side of Pakistan against Sri Lanka.The runs didn't cease to flow for Umar Akmal, the younger brother of Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran and Adnan, in his maiden first-class season. In a triumphant 2007-08 for Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, Umar failed to score in his first outing but then went on to amass 855 runs from nine matches in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, at an average of 77.72 and an impressive strike-rate of 90.18. He showed a penchant for both brisk and big scoring, with knocks of 248 off 225 balls and 186 off 170. In January 2008, he was picked in Pakistan's Under-19 team for the World Cup in Malaysia. He was the leading run-getter - with 255 runs at a strike-rate of 123.18 - in a tri-nation tournament involving England and Sri Lanka in the lead-up to the World Cup. A successful tour of Australia with Pakistan A was followed up a maiden international call-up for the ODIs in Sri Lanka, and Umar started off with a half-century in his second game and a power-packed hundred in his third. A Test call-up was inevitable and he gave an optimistic glimpse into the future of Pakistan cricket, with a century on debut, under pressure followed by a string of consistent scores in New Zealand.

As explosive starts to one’s International careers go, few can rival Umar Akmal. He announced his entry with scores of 66 and 102* within his first 3 ODI innings (at Sri Lanka, 2009) in addition to a 129 and 75 on Test debut (at New Zealand, 2009). Those performances weren’t a surprise. At first class level, Akmal was renowned for his big scores amassed in quick time. 7 years prior to his debut, Umar’s elder brother Kamran had already gotten his taste of international cricket. By 2010, the siblings featured regularly, in tandem for Pakistan.

As a fearless, middle-order batsman, throughout Pakistan’s disappointing spree of series losses against Sri Lanka in 2009 and later at Australia in early 2010, Umar Akmal’s ascendance was one of their few positives. But as the series in Australia progressed, complacency began to creep into Akmal’s Test form, which started to dip. In ODIs though, a hundred and five fifties by his 18th outing maintained a steady average. It was enough to justify an inclusion in Pakistan’s 2010 T20 World Cup squad. He finished the tournament as Pakistan’s 3rd highest-run getter towards their semi-final run.