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Full name | Malik Haidar Ali Khan
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Born | Attock, Punjab, Pakistan | 2 October 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft (183 cm) [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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ODI debut (cap 226) | 1 November 2020 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 3 November 2020 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 87) | 1 September 2020 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 27 October 2022 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019–2023 | Northern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020–2022 | Peshawar Zalmi (squad no. 12) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | Karachi Kings (squad no. 46) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | Derbyshire (squad no. 12) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024 | Islamabad United (squad no. 46) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 29 September 2023 |
Haider Ali ( Urdu, Punjabi: حیدر علی; born 2 October 2000) is a Pakistani cricketer. [3] [4]
He made his first-class debut in September 2019. [5] He made his international debut for the Pakistan cricket team on 1 September 2020. [6]
Due to his batting style, his compact defence technique, his off-side play and his pull shots, he has been compared to Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma. [1] He himself considers Sharma to be his role model. [7]
He was born in Attock, Punjab to a zamindar father. [1] His Punjabi Awan family is known for being more into tent-pegging and horse-riding than cricket, and apart from a cousin who played for Rawalpindi Rams, he's the only one to have played professional cricket, beginning with tape-ball cricket in 2015 and joining the Al Faisal cricket club few months later, before playing at Under-16 level in 2016 and at Under-19 level in 2017. [8]
He made his Twenty20 debut for Rawalpindi in the 2018–19 National T20 Cup on 10 December 2018. [9] In September 2019, he was named in Northern's squad for the 2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament. [10] [11] He made his first-class debut for Northern in the 2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on 14 September 2019. [12]
In December 2019, he was drafted by the Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise team Peshawar Zalmi as their Supplementary category Player during the 2020 PSL draft. [13] On 10 March 2020, he became the youngest cricketer to score a fifty in the PSL. [14]
In August 2021, he was named in the Jamaica Tallawahs' squad for the 2021 Caribbean Premier League. [15] In December 2021, in the seventh round of the 2021–22 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, he scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket with 206 runs. [16]
In July 2022, he was signed by the Dambulla Giants for the third edition of the Lanka Premier League. [17]
In November 2019, he was named in Pakistan's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh. [18] He made his List A cricket debut for Pakistan, against Afghanistan, in the Emerging Teams Cup on 14 November 2019. [19] In December 2019, he was named the vice-captain of Pakistan's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. [20]
In May 2020, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) awarded him a central contract, in a newly created Emerging Players' category, ahead of the 2020–21 season. [21] [22] In June 2020, he was named in a 29-man squad for Pakistan's tour to England during the COVID-19 pandemic. [23] [24] However, on 22 June 2020, Ali was one of three players from Pakistan's squad to test positive for COVID-19. [25] Although he had shown no previous symptoms of the virus, [26] he was advised to go into a period of self-isolation. [27] On 21 August, he was named in Pakistan's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad, also for the series against England. [28] He made his T20I debut for Pakistan, against England, on 1 September 2020. [29] In his debut T20I match, he scored 54 runs, becoming the first cricketer for Pakistan to score a fifty on a T20I debut. [30]
In October 2020, he was named in a 22-man squad of "probables" for Pakistan's home series against Zimbabwe. [31] [32] On 31 October 2020, he was added to Pakistan's One Day International (ODI) squad for the second match of the series. [33] He made his ODI debut for Pakistan, against Zimbabwe, on 1 November 2020. [34] In November 2020, he was named in Pakistan's 35-man squad for their tour to New Zealand. [35]
In June 2021, Ali was named to Pakistan's squads for their tours of England and the West Indies. [36] [37] However, on 24 June 2021, he was withdrawn from Pakistan's squads, after breaching the bio-secure bubble at the 2021 Pakistan Super League tournament. [38] [39] In October 2021, he was named the vice-captain of the Pakistan Shaheens for their tour of Sri Lanka. [40] In August 2022, Ali was named in Pakistan's squad for Asia cup 2022.