ahmed shehzad Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ahmed shehzad is a cricketer(sportsman) from Pakistan. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Ahmed Shehzad
Born
November 23, 1991, Lahore, Punjab
Age
31 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 13 | 81 | 59 | - |
Inn | 25 | 81 | 59 | - |
Runs | 982 | 2605 | 1471 | - |
Avg | 40.92 | 32.56 | 25.81 | - |
SR | 50.99 | 72.08 | 114.83 | - |
HS | 176 | 124 | 111 | - |
NO | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
100s | 3 | 6 | 1 | - |
50s | 4 | 14 | 7 | - |
4s | 99 | 269 | 157 | - |
6s | 8 | 18 | 33 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 13 | 81 | 59 | - |
Inn | 2 | 9 | 1 | - |
Balls | 48 | 115 | 6 | - |
Runs | 28 | 140 | 10 | - |
Wkt | 0 | 2 | 0 | - |
BBI | 8 / 0 | 22 / 1 | 10 / 0 | - |
BBM | 8 / 0 | 22 / 1 | 10 / 0 | - |
Eco | 3.5 | 7.3 | 10.0 | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 70.0 | 0.0 | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Pakistan
- Barbados Tridents
- Barisal Burners
- Dhaka Dominators
- Habib Bank Limited
- Jamaica Tallawahs
- Kandy Warriors
- Lahore Eagles
- Lahore Lions
- Lahore Ravi
- Lahore Shalimar
- Multan Sultans
- Pakistan Under-19s
- Quetta Gladiators
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Having made his first-class debut at the age of 16 in 2007 for Lahore, Ahmed rose the ladder to international cricket quicker than his peers to picked for the ODI team. In between that he was part of the under-19 World Cup team in 2008. In 2009, Ahmed Shahzad and his team mates became World Champions in the T20 format under the leadership of Younis Khan. Though he played only one game, Ahmed's hunger to succeed received a major shot in the arm. In the 2014 T20 World Cup, he became the first cricketer from Pakistan to score hundreds in every format of the game.
The Taste of Tests came almost 4 years after his ODI debut but immediately impressed with a fine ton in only his third Test against Sri Lanka in his debut series. Hundreds at the adopted home in the UAE against Australia and New Zealand only gave him new wings for a higher flight in his career. But a poor series against Sri Lanka in the Lankan conditions forced the selectors to have him out of contention in the Test team. Concurrently, he lost his place in the ODI team as well post the 2015 World Cup.
Issues of fitness and discipline were making headlines for Ahmed and runs had taken a backseat. But strong performances at the domestic level and in the 2016 and 2017 PSL, kept reminding the selectors about the pedigree that he still possessed. He got his position back in the team for the tour to Windies in 2017 and is also geared up to play the Champions Trophy in England. Often referred to as Pakistan's Virat Kohli, Ahmed would want his bat to do all the talking in the second half of the marathon that has just flagged off.
Pakistan's tale with talented batsmen groomed into a consistent batsmen at the top level has too many cases of failures. The sustainability for the raw talents for a longer period of time at the big level has been a plaguing issue. A heir to Saeed Anwar's throne might as well have an answer in the form of the 'Shehzada' of Pakistan cricket.
by Kumar Abhisekh Das
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
When Ahmed Shehzad came on to the scene, many believed that Pakistan had finally found a long-term opener in the Aamer Sohail-Saeed Anwar mould. Similar to Virat Kohli in his set-up, Shehzad, like Kohli, could play the off-stump ball into the leg side off quicker bowlers. He was Pakistan's first T20I century-maker, getting there off 58 balls against Bangladesh in the 2014 T20 World Cup. Later that year he mixed aggression and watchfulness to make a Test-best 176, against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi. He was also only the fourth Pakistan batter to make five ODI hundreds as an opener, taking only 43 innings to get there, where Sohail took 132 innings.
Though flashy in appearance and attitude, Shehzad's game was sober and he didn't rack up numbers the way Kohli did. He had attractive shots, but more often than not they went straight to the fielder. And then there were the behavioural issues. He was left out of the probables squad for the 2016 tour of England on disciplinary grounds, and coach Mickey Arthur called him and Umar Akmal a "disruption to the team". In 2014, Shehzad was reprimanded for getting into an on-field discussion involving religion with Tillakaratne Dilshan, and in 2018, he failed a drugs test, was banned and had the ban extended after it was found that he had played club cricket during his suspension.
Shehzad made a brief comeback to the T20I team in 2019 on the back of his PSL form, but couldn't hold on to his place in the XI.