Yasir Ali
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Yasir Ali (born October 15, 1983 in Hazro
) is a Pakistan
i cricket
er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who has played one Test match for his country against Bangladesh at the age of 19.
Ali's potential was first realized when he played for Attock. He then was selected for a training camp with the Pakistani Cricket Academy soon after, where he went for a successful tour of South Africa
. He subsequently became one of a handful of players in Cricketing history to make their first-class
debut and Test debut in the same match.
Capable of bowling at around 140 km/h, Ali has fallen out of favour in recent years and will have to fight hard to gain recognition from the Pakistani selectors again, however he remains in their future thoughts as he has a retainer contract from the Cricket Board.
Now fully recovered from stress fracture injury, Yasir is playing Professional League cricket in the Uk for Ainsdale Cricket Club in the Liverpool Competition for 2008. Since appearing for Ainsdale he has now signed for Cheshire based side Elworth Cricket Club where he is pro'ing in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire league.
Hazro
Hazro is a district of Diyarbakır Province of Turkey. The populatrion is 4,488 as of 2010....
) is a Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who has played one Test match for his country against Bangladesh at the age of 19.
Ali's potential was first realized when he played for Attock. He then was selected for a training camp with the Pakistani Cricket Academy soon after, where he went for a successful tour of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. He subsequently became one of a handful of players in Cricketing history to make their first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
debut and Test debut in the same match.
Capable of bowling at around 140 km/h, Ali has fallen out of favour in recent years and will have to fight hard to gain recognition from the Pakistani selectors again, however he remains in their future thoughts as he has a retainer contract from the Cricket Board.
Now fully recovered from stress fracture injury, Yasir is playing Professional League cricket in the Uk for Ainsdale Cricket Club in the Liverpool Competition for 2008. Since appearing for Ainsdale he has now signed for Cheshire based side Elworth Cricket Club where he is pro'ing in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire league.