Biography-Umer Akmal

On May 26, 1990 a lion was born in Lahore, Punjab, runs didn't cease to flow for this lion, yes Umar Akmal the younger brother of Kamran wicket keeper of Pakistan cricket team. In a victorious match in 2007-08 for Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, U.Akmal was unsuccessful in first match but after this he played outstanding inngs of 855 runs in nine matches at Quaid-e-Azam Trophy average of 77.72 an inspiring strike rate of 90.18, he played of 248 off 225 balls and 186 off 170. 
With this impressive performance Umar selected for Pakistan's Under 19 for the World Cup January 2008. He also maxim runs taker 255 runs with strike rate of 123.18 in a tri-nation tournament between 3 cricket teams Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka. Umar started with a 50 and he scored hundred in his third match. 
When he gives this memorable performance he inevitable in test cap he gave an positive performance become future of Pakistan cricket, he score a century on debut under pressure against New Zealand. He played 30 ODI’s and scored 878 with average of 33.36 best figure 102*, in test he played 13 matches scored 822 with 129 high scoring rate. We hope Umar will give best performance in ICC World Cup 2011.
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Pakistan cricket team and Cricket World Cup 2011

Pakistan cricket team has started its journey for mega event, but a real fact still exists that the team is not 100% equipped for the ICC World Cup which is going to start on 19 Feb. Pakistan is in Group A along with Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and Kenya which are called as big playing teams. Australia didn’t played really good in last series as well as New Zealand has showed a poor performance against Bangladesh and if we observe India then they also lost there series with heavy margin. Pakistan has beaten New Zealand in ODI & test series but lost the T20 series which credit goes to New Zealand. With these conditions Pakistani team have a strong position but they faces different challenges like Salman But, M. Asif and M. Amir are band from World of cricket, Zulqarnin case, specially PCB drop some key players (Sohail Tanveer) which creates more problems for Pakistan team.
Shahid Khan Afridi now selected as captain for ICC World Cup announced On Friday December 3 and he accepted that team is not fully fit for mega event. The skipper also said that Kamran Akmal, Abdul Razzaq and Shoaib Akhtar and him self will be the match wining players. We hope that Pakistan overcome all these crucial matters and gives their best performance which had never seen after 1992 World Cup. Good luck Pakistan.
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