Mohammad Sami

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Mohammad Sami

Pakistan
Personal information
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style Right-arm fast (RF)
Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 33 83
Runs scored 458 314
Batting average 12.05 11.62
100s/50s -/- -/-
Top score 49 46
Balls bowled 6984 4094
Wickets 81 118
Bowling average 51.37 28.44
5 wickets in innings 2 1
10 wickets in match - n/a
Best bowling 5/36 5/10
Catches/stumpings 7/- 18/-

As of 15 February 2008
Source: [1]

Mohammad Sami (Urdu: محمد سمیع) (born 24 February 1981 in Karachi) is a Pakistani cricketer who specialises in fast bowling. He made his international debut against New Zealand in 2001 taking 8 wickets for 106 runs in his debut Test match. He was also successful in Test cricket in Zimbabwe and in his second tour of New Zealand in 2003. He played his 50th One Day International against India at Lahore on March 24, 2004. He has taken over 100 wickets in first class cricket and in List A cricket.

On 1 December 2003, he took his ODI career best figures of 5 wickets for 10 runs. It was the first time he took 5 wickets in an ODI. Earlier in April in Sharjah, UAE, he had taken 4/25 against Kenya.

Sami is one of the world's quickest bowlers, capable of delivering the ball in excess of 150 km/h. He has been recorded at speeds of 157 km/h, making him after Brett Lee and Shaun Tait of Australia and team mate Shoaib Akhtar the world's quickest bowler. Despite speed and boyish good looks and being able to swing the ball successfully, Sami has disappointed. He has not displayed the control of line and length, and the consistency needed to be successful at the highest level.

After many chances Pakistan replaced Sami (who was once the spearhead of Pakistan attack) for the One Day series against England with Mohammad Asif, however he was recalled for the series against South Africa in January/February 2007.

Sami was originally omitted from the 15-man Pakistan squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, although he was named as one of five reserves.[1] After team mates Akhtar and Asif were dropped from the World Cup squad due to injury, Sami and Yasir Arafat were called up as replacements.[2]

[edit] Trivia

  • Sami is one of only two bowlers to have taken a hat-trick in Test cricket and ODIs, the other being fellow Pakistani Wasim Akram.[3][4]
  • He holds the record for the most balls bowled in an ODI over. In a game against Bangladesh in 2004 he bowled 17 balls off an over which included seven wides and four no-balls.[2]
  • Sami is the only bowler in Test history to have taken 50 wickets at an average of over 50 [5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pakistan reveal back-up players: BBC Sport Retrieved 1 March 2007.
  2. ^ Shoaib and Asif out of the World Cup: Cricinfo.com Retrieved 1 March 2007.
  3. ^ Hat Tricks in Test Matches: Cricinfo.com Retrieved 2 March 2007.
  4. ^ One Day Internationals - Hat Tricks: Cricinfo.com Retrieved 2 March 2007.
  5. ^ Cricinfo - Sangakkara's sensational 2007

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Pakistan squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Waqar Younis (c) • 2 Abdul Razzaq • 3 Azhar Mahmood • 4 Inzamam-ul-Haq • 5 Mohammad Sami • 6 Rashid Latif (wk) • 7 Saeed Anwar • 8 Saleem Elahi • 9 Saqlain Mushtaq • 10 Shahid Afridi • 11 Shoaib Akhtar • 12 Taufeeq Umar • 13 Wasim Akram • 14 Younis Khan • 15 Yousuf Youhana • Coach: Pybus
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Pakistan squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup
1 Inzamam-ul-Haq • 2 Younis Khan • 3 Azhar Mahmood • 4 Danish Kaneria • 5 Iftikhar Anjum • 6 Imran Nazir • 7 Kamran Akmal • 8 Mohammad Hafeez • 9 Mohammad Sami • 10 Mohammad Yousuf • 11 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan • 12 Shahid Afridi • 13 Shoaib Malik • 14 Umar Gul • 15 Yasir Arafat • Coach: Woolmer
Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif and Abdul Razzaq were named in the original squad but injuries led to them being withdrawn.
Mushtaq Ahmed acted as temporary coach for Pakistan's final group game following the death of Bob Woolmer.
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