kamran akmal Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
kamran akmal is a cricketer(sportsman) from Pakistan. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Kamran Akmal
Born
January 13, 1982, Lahore, Punjab
Age
41 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 53 | 157 | 58 | 6 |
Inn | 92 | 138 | 53 | 6 |
Runs | 2648 | 3236 | 987 | 128 |
Avg | 30.79 | 26.1 | 21.0 | 25.6 |
SR | 63.09 | 83.94 | 119.64 | 164.1 |
HS | 158 | 124 | 73 | 53 |
NO | 6 | 14 | 6 | 1 |
100s | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 |
4s | 372 | 378 | 100 | 13 |
6s | 14 | 37 | 31 | 8 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 53 | 157 | 58 | 6 |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Adnan Akmal
- Umar Akmal
- Babar Azam
- Pakistan
- Asia XI
- Dambulla Viiking
- Lahore
- Lahore Eagles
- Lahore Lions
- National Bank of Pakistan
- New York Warriors
- Peshawar Zalmi
- Punjab Stallions
- Rajasthan Royals
- St Lucia Stars
- Toronto Nationals
- Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
In Test cricket, he would swiftly change to his position in the lower middle order. He was particularly successful against arch-rivals India, against whom he performed many rescue acts. His maiden Test ton was one such show where he scored a defying century coming down at Number 8 at Mohali in 2005. He did the impossible once again in Karachi in 2006, where he made a stunning 113 to rescue Pakistan from 35/6 to 245. The innings gave Pakistan an improbable victory and began a highly productive year for Akmal, where he scored seven international hundreds within just 6 months.
Things didn't go as well as it used to for Akmal in the latter half of 2006. He did poorly with the bat on the tour to England and his form continued to go downward. More than his batting form, it was his problems with the glove that turned out to be a bigger headache, so much so that he was left out of the Asia cup squad in 2008 due to poor glove-work. However, he was a part of the Pakistan squad that lifted the T20 World Cup in 2009, and also showed improvement in wicketkeeping skills. However, the promise didn't last long, as his horrors behind the stumps returned soon. In one unforgettable and unfathomable performance at Sydney in 2010, he dropped 4 catches and missed a run out in the 2nd innings to let Australia off the hook and escape with a sensational win. He was dropped from the Pakistan squad after his horrendous show in the 2011 World Cup, the most notable one being the twin drop catches off Ross Taylor in a league game. Taylor went on to make a blazing century to help New Zealand win the match. Akmal became notoriously famous in Twitter, and 'Kamran Akmal' jokes became a rage on the internet.
His incompetence as a wicketkeeper kept him out of the squad after that. He was kept as a back-up most of the times and has played very few games in the recent times. He ended up conceding his position as a wicketkeeper to his own brother Umar Akmal. After being out of the squad for more than a year, he was drafted into the T20 side for the World Cup in March 2014. However, he had a poor outing with the bat, scored only 48 runs in 4 games.
Controversies: Kamran Akmal's poor show in the Sydney Test led to suspicion and allegations of match fixing. In September 2010, the ICC sent an official notice to inform him that he is under investigation for fixing the Sydney Test. However, Kamran was absolved off all charges.
By Cricbuzz staff
As of April 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Kamran Akmal may well be the most emphatic proof of cricket's changed priorities post Adam Gilchrist. Sides now search for an explosive batsman who can change a day, an innings, a phase with the bat and so long as you can identify right wicketkeeping glove from left, the place is yours.
There has been little doubt about Akmal's batting. The purity of his drives and the strength of his cutting and pulling, particularly on slower subcontinent surfaces, has always held a strong allure. And when it comes together as it did one January morning in Karachi against India - one of the Test innings of that decade - he makes it in the side as a batsman alone.
But his glovework, which began so promisingly when he effectively ended the dogfight between Rashid Latif and Moin Khan in late 2004, has deteriorated alarmingly and few Pakistan matches are complete without a clumsy Akmal error.
It wasn't always thus, for he was good when he began, good enough to impress Ian Healy. But non-stop cricket in all three formats have let technical errors creep in and critics and experts have long pushed for the need for him to take a break.
To quality spin, he is often as lost as the batsmen and Danish Kaneria, over the years, has suffered in particular. In a string of error-ridden performances, the one nobody will forget will be the four dropped catches (and a missed run-out) in the Sydney Test of 2009-10, which allowed Australia to escape with a remarkable, traumatic win. Against this the memory of his Karachi hundred will always battle, with no clear winner ever likely to emerge. The tryst with controversy does his cause no good, with his refusal to accept his demotion from the side in the aftermath of a disastrous Sydney Test in 2009, eliciting a harsh fine and a disciplinary probation from the PCB.
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