Misbah-ul-Haq was appointed Pakistan Test captain in October 2010 and took over the one-day captaincy seven months later. He took on the captain's role after a period of turmoil for Pakistan cricket and his calm demeanour has ensured he has held on to the leadership of the Pakistan Test and ODI teams for over three years, a significant period of ... Read More

Aaqib Javed represented Pakistan on 185 occasions, taking over 230 wickets in a ten-year playing career, the highlight being the key role he played in Pakistan's 1992 World Cup victory where he opened the bowling and took key wickets throughout the tournament. He has pursued a coaching career since retiring in 2003, taking up a number of roles in the ... Read More

Best known as being the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Chairman of the Champions League between 2008 and 2010, the outspoken and flamboyant Lalit Modi has had the unique distinction of being portrayed as a pioneer and villain in the race to capture the hearts and minds of the cricketing world. Now a vocal critic ... Read More

Kieron Pollard played his first game for the West Indies in April 2007, just three months after his first-class debut. It was a rapid rise for the hard-hitting all-rounder, who was selected after impressing selectors with 126 off just 71 balls in his first four-day game, for Trinidad & Tobago.  His One Day International debut was in the 2007 ICC World ... Read More

Considered by many as unlucky to not have been a permanent member of the Pakistan team, Yasir Arafat played for Sussex in 2006, 2009 and 2010 and was part of the Sharks side that won the Twenty20 Cup in 2009. He has turned out for five different English counties - Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Lancashire and Somerset and is the leading ... Read More

Hailing from Yorkshire, 22-year-old pace bowler Safyaan Sharif has played nine ODIs and seven T20Is for Scotland, with his best performance coming on debut against the Netherlands in 2011 when he took 4/27 from 8 overs. More recently, he was part of the Scotland side that won the ICC World Cup Qualifiers and as a result qualified for the 2015 ... Read More

PakPassion.net caught up with the Pakistan Under-19s captain, ahead of their warm-up match against the United Arab Emirates Under-19s to discuss his career to date, future aspirations, as well preparations for the upcoming ICC Under 19 World Cup. Read More

Nida Waseem was born on November 1, 1982 in Karachi, Pakistan and is the second of three children. She is a former National Tennis Champion and studied at the Boston College (USA) on scholarship. She is deemed as the most prolific female tennis player after Nosheen Ehtesham, the mother of Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. She holds national records for playing the most ... Read More

Awais Zia is a hard-hitting left-hander who was selected in the Pakistan T20 squad to face England in 2012 after some strong performances for domestic side Rawalpindi Rams in the Faysal Bank T20 Cup, where he helped his side reach the final. Zia played in all three matches in the T20 series against England but despite some lusty blows, he was ... Read More

Mudassar Nazar played 76 Tests and 122 ODIs for Pakistan between 1976 and 1989, scoring almost 7,000 runs and taking 175 wickets. An accumulator of runs, his best performances came at home where he scored eight of his ten Test centuries, half of which were scored against India. Providing stability at the top of the batting order, Nazar averaged 54 in ... Read More

In an exclusive interview with PakPassion.net from Dubai, Zaka Ashraf clarified the position of the PCB on this issue, expressed his dismay at the high-handedness of some of the officials, and also explained the PCB's stance on verbal proposals by the BCCI for a bilateral series and made it clear that the proposals would undermine the very existence of the ... Read More

Sohaib Maqsood made his international debut in August 2013 in a Twenty20 international during Pakistan's tour of Zimbabwe. The hard hitting batsman from Multan also went on to play his first one-day international against South Africa a couple of months later where he scored a belligerent half-century against an attack featuring Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.  The composed right-hander followed up ... Read More

Mohammad Imran Khan made his first-class debut just over seven years ago and in that period he has played 64 first class matches, getting over 250 wickets at an average of 22, taking ten wickets in a match on three occasions. He also has 17 five-wicket hauls. Another in the long line of fast bowlers emerging from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province (formerly ... Read More

Samir Iftikhar is a young aspiring tennis player from Pakistan. He is deemed as a special talent and has already won the clay court championship. He is the son of former Davis Cup player, Tayyab Iftikhar. He has been Pakistan's top junior player on the ITF circuit and has represented Pakistan in the Davis Cup ties alongside the likes of ... Read More

Wicket-keeper Jamal Anwar made his domestic debut in 2008 and since then has played 58 first-class, 27 List A and 34 Twenty20 matches. He has been involved in over 300 dismissals and made over 2,000 runs. A belligerent limited-overs batsman, the 23-year-old averages over 42 with the bat in the List A format. Anwar who is currently one of Pakistan's most ... Read More

32-year-old wicket-keeper Humayun Farhat played his one and only Test match for Pakistan in March 2001 against New Zealand in Hamilton. He was also selected for five one-day internationals a month later in the ARY Gold Cup contested between Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Sharjah, making his highest international score of 39 in the final.  In domestic cricket he ... Read More

Kamran Akmal has played 53 Tests, 154 ODIs and 50 T20Is for Pakistan, scoring over 6,000 international runs. He has six Test centuries and 12 fifties and has taken over 350 catches and completed 83 stumpings.  The 31-year-old made his debut in 2002 and was a regular for the Pakistan side in all three formats over the next decade. He made ... Read More

29-year-old Tabish Khan made his first-class debut ten years ago and in that period, has taken 327 wickets at an average of 26 from 77 matches, including 18 five-wicket hauls. He has also taken ten wickets in a match on three occasions. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he has spent the majority of his career playing for major teams from Karachi including ... Read More

21 year old Sialkot born left arm spinner Raza Hasan was earmarked as a bowler with a bright future right from the beginning of his career. A bowler with a variety of tricks, Raza has however only managed to make seven appearances for Pakistan despite impressive performances particularly for his domestic sides Rawalpindi Rams and of late the Sialkot Stallions. Having ... Read More

Born in Swabi, 27-year-old leg-spinner Yasir Shah has represented Pakistan on three occasions, twice in T20Is as well as in one solitary ODI. His Pakistan debut came over nine years after his first-class debut in 2001, and he began his international career with a spell of 2-51 against Zimbabwe. He took the wickets of Vusi Sibanda and Tatenda Taibu as ... Read More