Saleem Elahi

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Saleem Elahi
Personal information
Born (1976-11-21)21 November 1976
Sahiwal, Punjab,
Pakistan
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off-break
Role Batsman,
occ. wicket-keeper
Relations Manzoor Elahi (brother),
Zahoor Elahi (brother),
Babar Manzoor (nephew)
International information
National side
  • Pakistan
Test debut (cap 136) 9 Nov. 1995 v Australia
Last Test 2 Jan. 2003 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 102) 29 Sep. 1995 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 14 Jan. 2004 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1994–1999 Lahore City
1996–1997 United Bank Ltd
1997–2011 Habib Bank Ltd
2001 Lahore Whites
2002 Lahore Blues
2004 Lahore
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODI FC LA
Matches 13 48 111 141
Runs scored 436 1,579 5,508 6,277
Batting average 18.95 36.72 32.02 52.30
100s/50s 0/1 4/9 8/26 18/37
Top score 72 135 229 172
Balls bowled n/a 6 42 12
Wickets n/a 0 0 1
Bowling average n/a n/a n/a 16.00
5 wickets in innings n/a 0 0 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a n/a n/a
Best bowling n/a 0/10 0/7 1/6
Catches/stumpings 10/1 10/– 74/1 38/–
Source: CricketArchive, 22 June 2013

Saleem Elahi (Urdu: سلیم الہی) (born 21 November 1976) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 13 Tests and 48 ODIs from 1995 to 2004. To date, he is the only Pakistani cricketer to score a century on his one-day debut, scoring an unbeaten 102.[1]

Despite not having played in a single first-class match, he scored an unbeaten 102 on ODI debut, against Sri Lanka at Gujranwala in 1995–96. His highest ODI score of 135 came against South Africa at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth in 2002. In that match, he shared 257 runs partnership with Abdul Razzaq for the second wicket to help Pakistan to reach 335/6 and won the match by 182 Runs.

He averages over 50 in List A cricket and holds the second highest average of all time for players with over 5000 runs, after Michael Bevan.

References

  1. Records, hundreds on debut cricinfo. Retrieved 15 October 2010
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