Irfan Khan Pathan

Irfan Khan Pathan

Irfan Khan Pathan (Hindi: इरफ़ान ख़ान पठान, Urdu: عرفان خان پٹھان), born October 27, 1984 in Baroda, Gujarat, India) is an Indian cricket, who made his debut for India in late 2003 and was a key member of the national team to a loss of form during 2006, which forced him off the team. Since then he has been in and out of the limited-overs team, and have only sporadic appearances in the cricket test.

He began his career as a rapid shift to the left throwing arm, middle, Pathan broke into the national team shortly after the age of 19, and evoked comparisons with Wasim Akram Pakistan, considered one of the finest left arm paceman of all time, with its promising performance and prodigious swing. Consolidating its position in the team and was named by the International Cricket Council emerging player as of 2004. In late 2004, took 18 wickets in two tests against Bangladesh, but in early 2005, admitted wrongdoing and runs at a high rate, leading to a brief exile of the one-day international (ODI) team . Immediately afterward, the Australian Greg Chappell, one of the musicians of his time, became the coach of India and has identified potential Pathan batting. Melon improve batting skills to become a bowling all-rounder, and opened the club many times in ODIs and scored 93 in a test match in the paper after Virender Sehwag's disease.

He made three scores above 80 in the space of four rounds of testing. For the first nine months of the passage of the head Chappell, Pathan was firmly with both bat and ball, scoring runs regularly and frequently to take higher-order wickets. Which reached number 2 in the ICC ODI ranking for all uses and also among the top five in the test score. This has led critics to compare him with former pace bowling Indian Kapil Dev versatile [1]. In early 2006, became the first bowler Pathan and only take a test hat-trick in the first game. However, the race was short and productive after the beginning of 2006, Pathan began to lose regular rhythm and swing, and brought down his window. While Pathan continued to be productive batting was not considered a specialist and was dismissed from the team in both tests and ODIs at the end of 2006 and 2007 was no longer in the bunch.

He returned to international cricket in September 2007 for the inauguration of the World Twenty20, where he took three wickets and was man of the match as India beat Pakistan in the final. This earned him a recall into the ODI team, where he was a regular at most of the next 12 months, before falling as the economy continued its upward trend. In late 2007, Pathan was recalled in the test team and hit his century trial of a young girl, but could not maintain its place in the team when his bowling was not effective enough with the need pacemen only two. He continues to play with both bat and ball at the national level, although its slower pace is often criticized for being relevant at international level.