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Umar Gul Biography

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UMAR GUL BIO

Full name Umar Gul

Born April 14, 1984, Peshawar, North-Western Frontier Province

Current age 29 years 307 days

Major teams Pakistan, Gloucestershire, Habib Bank Limited,Kolkata Knight Riders, North West Frontier Province,North West Frontier Province Panthers, Pakistan A,Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar, Peshawar Panthers,Sussex, Uva Next, Western Australia

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	47	67	9	577	65*	9.94	1204	47.92	1	63	20	11
ODIs	119	59	16	422	39	9.81	607	69.52	0	35	11	15
T20Is	52	24	8	160	32	10.00	146	109.58	0	11	10	18
First-class	87	113	15	1170	65*	11.93			1			20
List A	170	83	25	601	39	10.36			0			21
Twenty20	116	62	15	461	32	9.80	423	108.98	0	30	27	34

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	47	90	9599	5553	163	6/135	9/164	34.06	3.47	58.8	12	4	0
ODIs	119	117	5530	4704	168	6/42	6/42	28.00	5.10	32.9	4	2	0
T20Is	52	52	1050	1217	74	5/6	5/6	16.44	6.95	14.1	4	2	0
First-class	87		16780	9487	341	8/78		27.82	3.39	49.2	19	18	2
List A	170		7981	6665	238	6/42	6/42	28.00	5.01	33.5	5	2	0
Twenty20	116	116	2476	2999	166	5/6	5/6	18.06	7.26	14.9	8	2	0

Umar Gul is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team.

He has gained fame as one of the most successful bowlers in Twenty20 cricket finishing as the leading wicket taker and bowler in both the 2007 and 2009 Twenty20 World Championship tournaments.

Gul was born in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan he was born in a middle-class family and frequently played tape-ball cricket.

People on the street encouraged Gul to become an international cricketer as they saw his superb bowling. On October 2010 Gul's family announced that he was to wed a Dubai Doctor. The doctor is from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and she was born there as well.

On 30 May 2012, Pakistan Army raided Umar Gul's house in Peshawar and arrested his brother on the charge of hiding a wanted militant.

In February 2008, Gul signed with the Indian Premier League and was drafted by Shahrukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders franchise for US $150,000.

He played in six matches, taking 12 wickets at an average of 15.33, including a player of the match award in Kolkata's final game in which Gul took 4-23 and scored 24 runs from 11 balls.

In December 2008 Gul signed with the Western Warriors to compete in the Australian domestic 2008-09 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash tournament.

He performed very well in his debut match for the Warriors, taking 4 wickets for 15 runs in a losing side.

He was amongst the most successful bowlers in the competition despite not being available for the entire tournament he finished second top wicket taker with 12 wickets.

Internationally, Gul has taken 47 wickets in just 32 games at an average of 14.65, a truly outstanding statistic.

He is the second leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 Internationals behind teammate Shahid Afridi.Umar Gul, after taking five-for in Twenty20 International Cricket, became the first ever bowler to own five wickets haul in all international formats of the game.