Fawad Alam

Fawad Alam
Personal information
Full name	Fawad Alam
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
Role	All rounder
International information
National side	Pakistan;
Test debut	12 July 2009 v Sri Lanka
Last Test	20 July 2009 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut	22 May 2007 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	3 August v Sri Lanka
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive, 7 November 2009

Fawad Alam (born 8 October 1985 in Karachi) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer. He is primarily a left-handed batsman but bowls handy slow left-arm orthodox. His father Tariq had a long first class career in Pakistan.

Career

Making his first class debut at the age of 17, Fawad played with Pakistan Customs and Karachi. He impressed enough to be selected to play in the U-19 World Cup, which Pakistan won.

Fawad starred in the 2006-07 domestic season, finishing as the fifth highest run scorer in the Quaid-e-Azam trophy. He took a 5 wicket haul in the Twenty20 Cup final which earned him Man of the Match and was also named Man of the Series, Best Batsman and Best Bowler.

After Pakistan's disappointing World Cup campaign, Alam was drafted into a 16 man squad for a One Day International series against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi. His debut in the 3rd ODI was one to forget, he was caught and bowled by Dilhara Fernando for a first ball duck.

His second One-day International was a better experience, as he contributed 32 unbeaten runs down the order as Pakistan beat India by 31 runs in Jaipur.

In between those two matches, he traveled to South Africa as part of Pakistan's squad for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. He played in the semi-final, taking two wickets against New Zealand, one a superb caught and bowled effort to dismiss Lou Vincent, as Pakistan progressed to the final, for which he was not selected. In Asia Cricket Cup in June 2008, he scored his maiden half century against Hong Kong. In that match, Pakistan's top oder was ripped by Hong Kong bowlers before Fawad and another team mate Sohail Tanvir set up a 100 runs partnership for the 8th wicket. Sohail ended at 59 while Fawad Alam remained unbeaten at 63*. However he was unexpectedly dropped for the Sri Lanka series in January 2009.

In July 2009, Fawad became the first Pakistani cricketer to score a Test century on debut away from home, and the tenth to score a century on debut. In the second innings of the Second test against Sri Lanka, Fawad scored 168 this is the second higest score on debut for Pakistan, before this Yasir Hameed scored 170 in 2003 in Karachi. He along with Captian Younis Khan scored 200 runs for the second wickets partnership, breaking the previous record of 151 runs between Mohsin Khan and Majid Khan at Lahore in 1981-82. It was also highest partnership for Pakistan against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.^[1] This is also 15 higest score on Test debut.^[2]. This is also the Hisgest score by a Paksitani on debut on losing side. Previously it was by Younis Khan ^[3]

T20 Quadrangular, Canada

In October 2008, he was selected for the quadrangular Twenty20 International tournament to be played in Canada between Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and hosts Canada In the 4th match of the tournament, he hit 23* from just 8 balls with 3 huge sixes and supported the captain Shoaib Malik and guided the team to an exclusive victory by the margin of 3 wickets. In that match, he also got the wicket of SHT Kandamby.

In the very next match against Zimbabwe, he got 3/7 from 3 overs. In that tournament he got 5 wickets and has proved to be a handy all-rounder. In the Final against Sri Lanka, he was dismissed on just 2 runs but he also got 1 wicket in that match.

Test centuries

Test Centuries of Fawad Alam
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	168	1	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	PSS	2009

References

^ "Fawad Alam's Eighth [sic] Highest on test debut". 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2009-04-15. {{cite news}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
^ "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most runs in debut match". Retrieved 2009-04-15.
^ "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-04-15.

External links

[Fawad_Alam's_Eighth_Highest_on_test_debut-1] "Fawad Alam's Eighth [sic] Highest on test debut". 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2009-04-15. {{cite news}}: |first= missing |last= (help)

[Records_/_Test_matches_/_Batting_records_/_Most_runs_in_debut_match-2] "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most runs in debut match". Retrieved 2009-04-15.

[Statistics_/_Statsguru_/_Test_matches_/_Batting_records-3] "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-04-15.

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