abdul qadir Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
abdul qadir is a cricketer(sportsman) from Pakistan. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Abdul Qadir Khan
Born
September 15, 1955, Lahore, Punjab
Died
September 06, 2019, Lahore, (aged 63 years old)
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak Googly
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 67 | 104 | - | - |
Inn | 77 | 68 | - | - |
Runs | 1029 | 641 | - | - |
Avg | 15.36 | 15.26 | - | - |
SR | 45.79 | 75.5 | - | - |
HS | 61 | 41 | - | - |
NO | 10 | 26 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 3 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 99 | 36 | - | - |
6s | 16 | 17 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 67 | 104 | - | - |
Inn | 111 | 100 | - | - |
Balls | 16864 | 5100 | - | - |
Runs | 7742 | 3454 | - | - |
Wkt | 236 | 132 | - | - |
BBI | 56 / 9 | 44 / 5 | - | - |
BBM | 101 / 13 | 44 / 5 | - | - |
Eco | 2.75 | 4.06 | - | - |
Avg | 32.81 | 26.17 | - | - |
5W | 15 | 2 | - | - |
10W | 5 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Rehman Qadir
- Sulaman Qadir
- Ali Bahadur
- Imran Qadir
- Usman Qadir
- Umar Akmal
- Pakistan
- Habib Bank Limited
- Lahore
- Punjab
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He made his debut against England at Hyderabad in 1978. In the second innings, he took 6/44 as Pakistan looked like stealing victory. However, England managed to hang on for a draw. Things went slightly downward for Qadir after that series. On the return tour in 1982, injuries plagued him and he proved to be ineffective in the matches that he played.
In the series against Australia in 1982, Qadir regained his lost form by snapping up 11 wickets at Faisalabad as Australia hurtled to an innings defeat. Throughout the series, Qadir troubled the Australians with his variations as he finished up with 22 wickets in three matches. Pakistan whitewashed the Australians 3-0 and Qadir was establishing himself as a potent force. Imran Khan transformed Qadir into a brilliant bowler during his captaincy and he always managed to get the best out of him.
His bowling even made the mighty West Indian team clueless during the 80's. The fact that West Indies could not get over Pakistan during their period of dominance is partly due to Qadir's leg spinners. His most memorable performance came at Faisalabad when he tore through the West Indies top order in the second innings. His 6/16 bundled the West Indies out for just 53 runs. He troubled the West Indies throughout that series as he and Imran Khan finished the series as the joint highest wicket takers with 18 wickets apiece.
England simply had no clue to Qadir's leg-breaks. Out of the five ten wicket hauls taken in his career, four have come against England while out of the 15 five wicket hauls, eight were against them. Two glorious moments stand out for Qadir during the 1987 season. Against England at the Oval, Pakistan notched up 708. Qadir ran through the England batting in the first innings by snapping up 7/96 . However, England managed to hang on and draw the match with a gritty performance in the second innings. In the return leg played in November, Qadir's moment of glory arrived when in front of his home crowd in Lahore, he picked up 9/56 as Pakistan notched up an innings victory. These figures continue to remain the best bowling figures by a Pakistani bowler and this prompted Graham Gooch, the England opener, to call him the best leg spinner ever.
Qadir was a fighter to the core. He also was a handy bat lower down the order. He once thumped Courtney Walsh for 13 runs in the last over of the match to give Pakistan a one wicket victory in the 1987 World Cup match at Lahore. With the emergence of Mushtaq Ahmed, Qadir retired from cricket in 1993. He ran a private cricket academy in Lahore and he mentored Mushtaq and Danish Kaneria admirably. He became the chief selector of the PCB in 2008 but resigned after six months.
Fun Fact: Abdul Qadir is known as the dancing bowler due to his peculiar bowling style.
By Siddharth Vishwanathan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Cricket has Abdul Qadir to thank for keeping wristspin alive through the late 1970s and '80s. He did it with style, too. Blessed with a fast bowler's temperament and fire, he surrounded his craft with mystique. Before the 1982 tour to England, captain Imran Khan asked him to grow a French beard to enhance the aura and it worked: England were his favourite victims through his career, responsible for his international breakthrough in 1977-78 as well as his finest hours, at The Oval in 1987 and in the home series later that year, where he took 30 wickets in three Tests, including the best bowling in an innings by a Pakistani, 9 for 56, in Lahore. Graham Gooch, who faced him that day, said Qadir was even finer than Shane Warne, to whom he passed on the candle.
Qadir's action was a wonderfully extravagant routine, and he admitted more than once that it was contrived as a spectacle to distract batters. Variety was the key; it was said he had six different deliveries per over. Like with Andy Roberts' bouncer, Qadir was said to have two different googlies. His flipper was often equally lethal, though much often depended not on his ability but on mood.
Rarely was the mood right against India, whose batters were largely untroubled by him. On Pakistan's historic 1986-87 tour, when they won a series in India for the first time, Qadir was largely ineffective for four Tests before being dropped for the last, in which Iqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed, orthodox spinners both, led Pakistan to victory. But for every India, there was a West Indies and that Pakistan were able to compete with the era's most frighteningly dominant team without losing a series to them in the mid-'80s was largely down to Qadir's successes against them.
His appetite for the fight could not be questioned and it often came out in his batting. He played a few combative Test innings and some vital ODI ones, once taking 16 off Courtney Walsh's last over to win a World Cup game.
Qadir faded away from the scene in the early '90s with the emergence of Mushtaq Ahmed, and played his last ODI in 1993. After that he ran a private academy near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. His four sons followed him into the game with varying degrees of success, but his role in Mushtaq's rise and, to a lesser extent, that of Danish Kaneria, should not be overlooked.
In November 2008, Qadir was appointed Pakistan's chief selector, but he resigned after a little over six months in the job. He died of a heart attack a few days short of his 64th birthday in Lahore.