Mohammad Hafeez known for his intelligent bating and his aggressive shot plays

Mohammad Hafeez

is currently ranked number two in the ICC ODI rankings for both bowlers and all-rounders

 

Mohammad Hafeez (born October 17, 1980 at Sargodha) is a Pakistani Test cricketer. He is a right-hand opening batsman and a right-arm offspin bowler. Hafeez usually opens the batting and forms part of bowling attack. He formed a great partnership with Nasir Jamshed against India, in which he scored 105. He is known for his intelligent bating but also aggressive shot plays when needed.

 In December 2012, during the tour of Pakistan cricket team in india in 2012-13, he came across as a very different and aggressive batsman and scored so brilliantly and briskely and helped Pakistan to win the first T20I and 2nd ODI with his heroics of brilliant batting and nearly chasing a mountain high target of 191 in the second T20I. 

His scores were 61 and 55 in first and second T20I respectively and scored 76 runs in the 2nd ODI and sharing an opening stand of 141 with Nasir Jamshed and also bowled brilliantly as always economically to help Pakistan win their first ODI series in india since 7 years. He is now considered to be the main allrounder of Pakistan Cricket team.

Mohammad Hafeez's Test centuries

	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	102*	2	Bangladesh	Peshawar, Pakistan	Arbab Niaz Stadium	2003
[2]	104	7	West Indies	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2006
[3]	119	18	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club	2011
[4]	143	22	Bangladesh	Chittagong, Bangladesh	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	2011
[5]	196	27	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2012

Personal information
Full name	Mohammad Hafeez Cheena
Born	17 October 1980 (age 32) Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
Nickname	Professor, Cheena
Height	5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)
Batting style	Right-handed Opening Batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm Off Spin
International information
National side	Pakistan
Test debut (cap 173)	20 August 2003 v Bangladesh
Last Test	30 June-4 July 2012 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 144)	3 April 2003 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	18 June 2012 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.	8
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	29	107	160	195
Runs scored	2034	2925	9,294	6,197
Batting average	38.41	26.90	35.47	33.31
100s/50s	5/8	12/50	20/44	9/38
Top score	196	46*	196	139
Balls bowled	2498	2819	12,292	8,653
Wickets	9	96	199	177
Bowling average	35.00	32.00	27.38	32.97
5 wickets in innings		0	6	0
10 wickets in match		0	2	n/a
Best bowling	4/31	3/17	8/57	4/23
Catches/stumpings	79/-	49/-	137/-	78/-

 Against India on March 18, 2012 in Bangladesh at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur at the 2012 Asia Cup, he scored 105 off 113 balls and was involved in a 224 run partnership with Nasir Jamshed, which is the best opening partnership for Pakistan against India in one day internationals. 

They eclipsed Aamer Sohail and Saeed Anwar's record of 144 runs which was made in 1996. He made his 4th ODI century in March 2012 against Bangladesh at Dhaka. 

 

He also made his highest test score of 196 against Sri Lanka in the second Test at Colombo in June 2012. He is currently (2012) ranked number two in the ICC ODI rankings for both bowlers and all-rounders.

Mohammad Hafeez's One Day International centuries

	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	115	61	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand	AMI Stadium	2011
[2]	121	76	West Indies	Barbados, West Indies	Kensington Oval	2011
[3]	139*	81	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2011
[4]	105	98	India	Mirpur Thana, Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium	2012

 

 

 

From -Wikipedia