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Umar Gul has retired. This is not the precursor to an eventual u-turn. It is not a tantrum. It is not some power play to manoeuvre himself into captaincy.
Umar Gul (Urdu: عمر گل, Pashto: عمر گل) (born 15 October 1982) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who is the current bowling consultant of Peshawar Zalmi and interim bowling coach of the Pakistan national cricket team.
- Economy Rate
- Dismissal Types
- Exceptional Performances and Achievements
In T20 format, economy is one of the most important parameters to consider and Umar Gul had been extremely economical; he conceded runs with an economy rate of only 7.19 in his T20I career. Moreover, the special fact about Gul in terms of economy is that he mostly used to bowl death-overs in the T20 format. In the death-overs, batsmen usually go af...
This is the most important parameter if one has to judge how good a bowler is. Among the 85 wickets he took in his 60 games, 49 percent of the batsmen dismissed were through Bowled and LBW, and 11 percent through ‘catch by the keeper’. This means that most of the wickets that Gul took were because of his exceptional bowling skills rather than error...
Umar Gul features as the top bowler in International Cricket Council(ICC) Men’s All-Time T20I Rankings for the bowlers. He was the leading wicket-taker in 2007 and 2009 T20 World Cup editions. He was known as the best yorker bowling bowler in the T20 format. Out of his 200.3 overs in T20Is, he bowled two maiden overs which is quite rare in this for...
Former Pakistan cricketer Umar Gul claimed himself to be a better batsman than a legendary Indian cricketer, explaining that he owns a Player of the Match award which he had won in a World Cup...
Umar Gul. A fast bowler whose reputation has been forged in white-ball where the ability to bowl a pinpoint yorker which made him a key part of the Pakistan side which won the 2009 World T20...
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- November 15, 1982
- Pakistan
Gul played for the Kolkata Knight Riders during the opening edition of the IPL and has represented the Western Australia Warriors in the Big Bash. He also has played for the Sussex Sharks in the...
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May 24, 2020 · Umar Gul was instrumental in Pakistan’s triumph at the 2009 T20 World Cup in England. His 5-6 against New Zealand at the Oval – the best T20I bowling returns at the time – is No.5 in Wisden’s T20 spells of the 2000s, as picked by CricViz’s Freddie Wilde.
