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Umar Gul is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket
who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals
for the Pakistani cricket team.
He has gained fame as one of the most
successful bowlers in Twenty20 cricket finishing as the leading wicket taker
and bowler in both the 2007 and 2009 Twenty20 World Championship tournaments.
Gul was born in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
province of Pakistan he was born in a middle-class family and frequently played
tape-ball cricket.
People on the street encouraged Gul to
become an international cricketer as they saw his superb bowling. On October
2010 Gul's family announced that he was to wed a Dubai Doctor. The doctor is
from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and she was born there as well.
On 30 May 2012, Pakistan Army raided Umar
Gul's house in Peshawar and arrested his brother on the charge of hiding a
wanted militant.
In February 2008, Gul signed with the Indian
Premier League and was drafted by Shahrukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders
franchise for US $150,000.
He played in six matches, taking 12
wickets at an average of 15.33, including a player of the match award in
Kolkata's final game in which Gul took 4-23 and scored 24 runs from 11 balls.
In December 2008 Gul signed with the
Western Warriors to compete in the Australian domestic 2008-09 KFC Twenty20 Big
Bash tournament.
He performed very well in his debut match
for the Warriors, taking 4 wickets for 15 runs in a losing side.
He was amongst the most successful bowlers
in the competition despite not being available for the entire tournament he
finished second top wicket taker with 12 wickets.
Internationally, Gul has taken 47 wickets
in just 32 games at an average of 14.65, a truly outstanding statistic.
He is the second leading wicket-taker in
Twenty20 Internationals behind teammate Shahid Afridi.Umar Gul, after taking
five-for in Twenty20 International Cricket, became the first ever bowler to own
five wickets haul in all international formats of the game.
Twenty20
Career
With
injuries limiting Gul's test cricket participation, he made a distinct change
to his bowling set-up. Making a focus on bowling in the late overs of T20. He
got his opportunity with the absence of Shoaib Akhtar and Abdul Razzaq in the
2007 ICC World Twenty20 held in South Africa. He was generally used by Pakistan
from the 13th over onwards and finished the tournament with 13 wickets, making
him the leading wicket taker ahead of Shahid Afridi and RP Singh.
In
the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, he performed excellently, earning the mantle from
at least one pundit of "the outstanding seam bowler of the World
Twenty20".[14] His five-wicket haul for just six runs when Pakistan
dismantled New Zealand won especial acclaim. The spell made him the first
bowler in history to take a five wickets in a Twenty20 international, and he
held the record of best T20I bowling figures until 8 August 2011, when surpassed
by Ajantha Mendis (6/16).[15] Mutterings were made about a possible correlation
between ball tampering and the exorbitant amounts of reverse-swing he was able
to extract, but he denied them categorically: "Whenever an Asian bowler
performs and uses the reverse-swing, the Western cricketing countries raise the
issue of ball-tampering against them."[16]
He
was also part of the Pakistan team that lifted the trophy at Lord's while also
finishing as the leading wicket taker of the tournament for the second consecutive
time.[17]
He
gained a lot of wickets bowled, in particular with late reverse swinging
yorkers, which dip late to slide under the bat and leave little room for
batsmen to maneuver the ball. Consequently he has also an excellent economy
rate in this format of the game.
In
February 2008, Gul signed with the Indian Premier League and was drafted by
Shahrukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders franchise for US $150,000.[18] He played
in six matches, taking 12 wickets at an average of 15.33,[19] including a player
of the match award in Kolkata's final game in which Gul took 4-23 and scored 24
runs from 11 balls.[20]
In
December 2008 Gul signed with the Western Warriors to compete in the Australian
domestic 2008-09 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash tournament.[21] He performed very well
in his debut match for the Warriors, taking 4 wickets for 15 runs in a losing
side. He was amongst the most successful bowlers in the competition despite not
being available for the entire tournament he finished second top wicket taker
with 12 wickets.[22]
Internationally,
Gul has taken 47 wickets in just 32 games at an average of 14.65, a truly
outstanding statistic. He is the second leading wicket-taker in Twenty20
Internationals behind teammate Shahid Afridi
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