33 year old Mohammad Hafeez has been a regular pick for the Pakistani selectors in recent times in all three formats. Since returning to Test cricket in 2010, Hafeez had forged a solid and reliable opening partnership with Taufeeq Umar. However after struggling in Tests in 2013, he was dropped for the series against South Africa in the United Arab ... Read More

A top performer in domestic cricket for a number of years, Punjab-born, Mohammad Ayub Dogar is a right-handed middle order batsman who moved to Sialkot after starting his career at Sheikhupura. He scored over 1000 first-class runs in three consecutive seasons and was the second top scorer in the 2011-12 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy with 1,013 runs at an average of 66.55. ... Read More

Former Yorkshire and England batsman Geoff Boycott had a prolific playing career from 1962 to 1986. He established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen and since retiring as a player, he has found further success as a renowned cricket commentator. After 108 Test match appearances for England, Boycott ended his international career in 1982 as the leading Test ... Read More

Mohammad Sami burst on to the international scene in New Zealand in 2001 with a hostile spell of pace bowling and reverse swing. His performance in his debut Test match made Pakistani fans sit up and take note of this youngster and many hoped that he was the next star to come off the conveyor belt of Pakistani pace bowlers. However ... Read More

Born in Port Elizabeth, Ashwell Prince played 66 Tests Matches for South Africa between scoring 2002 and 2011. A gritty batsmen who made the opposition work for his wicket, Prince made 3665 runs in Test cricket with 11 centuries at a very good average of just over 41. He also featured in 52 one day internationals scoring over a thousand ... Read More

In April 2013, the Pakistan Cricket Board appointed Trent Woodhill as a temporary batting coach for Pakistan in what turned out to be a disastrous Champions Trophy campaign for the country. The Woodhill appointment suprised many as he was preferred over some of Pakistan's top names such as Inzamam ul Haq, Salim Malik and Zaheer Abbas, all of whom had ... Read More

Born 6th June, 1957 and described variously as "pugnacious, bold, brave and belligerent", Michael "Mike" Gatting OBE started his Test career with a match in Karachi against Pakistan in 1978. Gatting would go on to play 79 Tests in before his retirement in 1995 having scored 4,409 runs at an average of 35.55.  With 10 centuries and 21 fifties in Test ... Read More

Bilawal Bhatti is a 22 year old right-arm medium-fast bowler hailing from the same town of Muridke as the more famous Pakistan batsman, Imran Nazir. His passion and desire to play cricket started early when he was in school (8th grade) in Muridke and continued at Gujranwala where he played district level cricket, before moving to play Under 19 cricket ... Read More

Karachi born all-rounder, Ashar Zaidi’s name came to the fore in the year 2000 when he was picked for the Pakistan Under-19s team which took part in the World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2000. He has also played for the Pakistani domestic side PTCL in the Patron’s Trophy, scoring close to a 1,000 runs in two consecutive years.  A left ... Read More

22 year old Hammad Azam hails from Attock and made his first class debut in 2008 for Rawalpindi. He was selected for the Pakistan Under-19 team for the World Cup in New Zealand after only six first class appearances.  He impressed in the World Cup in New Zealand with his all round performances scoring 173 runs in six matches and was ... Read More

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is an outstanding international tennis player from Pakistan. He is currently ranked No. 1 in Pakistan and No. 14 in the world in doubles. His team with Jean Julien Rojer is ranked 5th, with his highest ever singles ranking has been 103. He qualified for the Main Draw of Wimbledon in 2007 and reached the 2nd round. He ... Read More

Chishty Mujahid is widely regarded as the grand old voice of Pakistani cricket, a legendary figure in Pakistani Cricket journalism and broadcasting whose name has become synonymous with Pakistani cricket’s best known triumphs.  He was born in 1944 in New Delhi and after reading Law at the prestigious Selwyn College, Cambridge, Chishty at the age of 23, decided to take up ... Read More

A tall off-spinner with a classically looping action, John Emburey played 64 Tests and 61 ODIs for England taking a total of 223 international wickets between 1978 and 1995. In 1984 he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year, as well as having a brief spell as England captain in 1988. Emburey spent the majority of his First-Class career at ... Read More

Ehsan Mani spent his early life in Pakistan playing for the Rawalpindi Club and Government College Lahore XI from 1959 to 1965 as a right-hand batsman and a left-arm fast medium bowler. From 1989 to 1996, Mani represented the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the ICC. For the 1996 Cricket World Cup, he was on the advisory committee as the PCB ... Read More

Zulfiqar Babar is the son of former Pakistani international footballer Abdul Ghaffar. Although never forced to play football, Babar inherited the love of sports from his father and persevered throughout his domestic career to make his international debut at the age of 34 years and 229 days - becoming the second oldest T20 debutant after Inzamam-ul-Haq. As if to prove ... Read More

Sohail Abbas is a former captain of the Pakistan Hockey team and the leading goal scorer in the history of the game. He made his international debut in 1998 and made an instant impact in his second game, scoring a dramatic late winner with a drag flick from a penalty corner to win the game for Pakistan. He was the ... Read More

Piyush Chawla was just 17 when he made his Test debut, against England in Mohali in March 2006. He has, however, only played three Tests in all, the last of them also against England in Nagpur in December 2012, after which he found himself on the sidelines again. The leg-spinner, now 24, was part of India’s World Cup-winning squad in 2011, ... Read More

Former Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie played 71 Test matches for his country, taking 259 wickets at an impressive average of 26.13. Gillespie played his cricket from the mid 90s into the mid 2000s during Australia's absolute peak in the cricketing world. Starting out as a genuine express bowler capable of bowling 90mph, constant injuries eventually forced a drop in ... Read More

Speaking exclusively to PakPassion.net, Zia spoke about his impressions of bowling in England, the importance of overseas tours for young Pakistani cricketers, the experience of attending Wasim Akram's training camp and the pressure of being earmarked at a young age as one of Pakistan's brightest young fast bowling prospects. Read More

Pakistani-born Mohammad Azharullah, who represented Multan, Quetta, and WAPDA in Pakistan's domestic cricket is now playing for Northamptonshire in England. In 57 First Class matches he has taken 204 wickets at an excellent average of 26, and also holds a commendable record in List A cricket. He is currently the the leading wicket-taker in the Friends Life T20 competition this ... Read More