Javed Miandad

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	Tests	ODIs
Javed Miandad Pakistan (Pak)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right arm leg spin
Matches	124	233
Runs scored	8832	7381
Batting average	52.57	41.70
100s/50s	23/43	8/50
Top score	280*	119
Overs bowled	245	73
Wickets	17	7
Bowling average	40.11	42.42
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best bowling	3/74	2/22
Catches/stumpings	93/1	71/2
As of 30 July 2005 Source: Cricinfo.com

Mohammad Javed Miandad (Urdu: محمد جاوید میانداد ) (born June 12, 1957), known in the Cricketing World as Javed Miandad (Urdu: جاوید میانداد), was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He had a long career as an international cricketer for Pakistan between 1975 and 1996, and is generally regarded as Pakistan's greatest ever batsman and among the top tier in cricket history. He also had 3 mildly successful but controversial coaching runs with the team as well.

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1 Career
2 Australasia Cup 1986
3 International Records
4 External links

[edit] Career

He made his Test debut against New Zealand at Lahore on 9 October 1976 and one-day international debut against West Indies at Edgbaston, Birmingham in the Cricket World Cup 1975.

Aged 18, Javed made a debut with a century and soon after scored a double century in the same series to break George Headley's 47 year old record of the youngest player to score a double century. Javed was the youngest player to score 100 runs on his debut. He scored a century in his first appearance against India in the course of which he completed 1000 runs in 23 innings to become the second youngest to score 1000 runs at the age of 21 years and 26 days.

Javed Miandad played 124 Tests and has batted the most innings for a Pakistani (189). His aggregate of 8,832 Test runs is a Pakistan record, while his 23 centuries and 43 fifties were national records until broken recently by current Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq. Javed's Test career batting average of 52.57 puts him among the top flight of batsmen to have played international cricket, and he is one of only two batsmen in cricket history, the other being Herbert Sutcliffe, to maintain an average of above 50 throughout a career of more than 20 innings. He scored six double centuries which is the most by a Pakistani and 5th in the all-time list. His highest score was 280 not out vs India.

Javed learned his craft as a youngster on the tough, blue-collar streets of Karachi, and not surprisingly his technique flew in the face of most cricket coaching textbooks. His unorthodox but distinctive square-on batting stance and equally unconventional split-handed grip never hindered him though.

[edit] Australasia Cup 1986

One of the highlights of Javed's career came during the Australasia Cup in 1986. The Pakistanis had managed to make it to the final, and were up against India.

India batted first and scored 245 runs, leaving Pakistan with a required run rate of 4.92 per over.

Javed came in to bat at number 4, with the score at 39 for 2 wickets, and the required run rate had risen to 7 an over. With four runs required off the last ball, Javed struck a six that sealed the victory for Pakistan.

Viv Richards, was once quoted saying, "If there was any batsman whom I could choose to bat for my life, it would be Javed Miandad." Javed was also complimented by commentator and former New Zealand captain John Wright, who refused to concede victory to India, saying, "As long as Javed is there, anything can happen". Javed referred to this in his autobiography as, "One of the best compliments he has received in all his cricket years."

[edit] International Records

Javed Miandad's career performance graph.

Javed Miandad has some unique records in cricket. In the 100th Test match ever to be played, between Pakistan and New Zealand in 1982-83, he scored centuries in both innings. He is the youngest cricketer to make a triple hundred in first class cricket. He scored nine back to back 50s in 1987-88 an ODI world record. He was never dismissed for a duck at home, in both forms of cricket.

Miandad is the only cricketer to appear in six World Cup competitions; the first six. In 1982, Wisden named him as one of the cricketers of the year.

[edit] External links

Pakistani batsmen with a Test batting average above 40
Javed Miandad \| Inzamam-ul-Haq \| Mohammad Yousuf \| Saeed Anwar \| Zaheer Abbas
Shoaib Mohammad \| Hanif Mohammad \| Saleem Malik \| Saeed Ahmed \| Younis Khan