Taufeeq Umar Biography
A left handed opener from the city of Lahore, Taufeeq seems to be another one of Pakistan’s top order experiments gone ‘kaput’. He impressed one and all right from the outset at the Under 15 World Cup where he scored a magnificent 87 in the semi finals against England and caught the selectors’ eye. Taufeeq made his test debut in August 2001 against Bangladesh and grabbed the opportunity with both hands, scoring a century in the game.
The talent from Lahore continued his prolific form against top cricketing nations Australia and South Africa. He showed solid technique with shots off the back-foot as well as some sublime drives off the front-foot to score 88 against the Aussies and 135 against the Proteas. His limited opportunity in the 2003 World Cup spurred him on to achieve more in order to prove his worth and he did so by hammering a century and three fifties in four innings on home soil against South Africa.
Taufeeq Umar could not maintain the consistency of such knocks and soon found himself out of the national side. His affair with the rebel league, the ICL, stunted his international career growth and despite the scrapping of the league, this left handed opener has not been able to open the doors to the national side.
Fast Facts
He scored a century on his test debut and became the 8th Pakistani cricketer to do so and joined a list of illustrious cricketers of the likes of Mark Waugh, Sourav Ganguly, Willaim Gilbert Grace, Keppler Wessels, and Javed Miandad.
He can bowl some handy off break and has taken a 5 wicket haul in domestic cricket.
He has a healthy average of 39.29 in tests consisting of 9 half centuries and 4 centuries.
He has also scored a century in domestic T20s making an unbeaten 100 and has impressive bowling figures with a best of 4 for 11.
A left handed opener from the city of Lahore, Taufeeq seems to be another one of Pakistan’s top order experiments gone ‘kaput’. He impressed one and all right from the outset at the Under 15 World Cup where he scored a magnificent 87 in the semi finals against England and caught the selectors’ eye. Taufeeq made his test debut in August 2001 against Bangladesh and grabbed the opportunity with both hands, scoring a century in the game.
The talent from Lahore continued his prolific form against top cricketing nations Australia and South Africa. He showed solid technique with shots off the back-foot as well as some sublime drives off the front-foot to score 88 against the Aussies and 135 against the Proteas. His limited opportunity in the 2003 World Cup spurred him on to achieve more in order to prove his worth and he did so by hammering a century and three fifties in four innings on home soil against South Africa.
Taufeeq Umar could not maintain the consistency of such knocks and soon found himself out of the national side. His affair with the rebel league, the ICL, stunted his international career growth and despite the scrapping of the league, this left handed opener has not been able to open the doors to the national side.
Fast Facts
He scored a century on his test debut and became the 8th Pakistani cricketer to do so and joined a list of illustrious cricketers of the likes of Mark Waugh, Sourav Ganguly, Willaim Gilbert Grace, Keppler Wessels, and Javed Miandad.
He can bowl some handy off break and has taken a 5 wicket haul in domestic cricket.
He has a healthy average of 39.29 in tests consisting of 9 half centuries and 4 centuries.
He has also scored a century in domestic T20s making an unbeaten 100 and has impressive bowling figures with a best of 4 for 11.
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