Misbah-ul-Haq Biography

  

 Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi (Urdu: مصباح الحق) (born may 28, 1974) - a Pakistani cricket coach and former international cricketer. Misbah-Ul-haq has captained Pakistan in test cricket and One-day Internationals (ODIs). Misbah-Ul-haq is a modern head teacher and a previous selector of Pakistan team leaders across the country. A late bloomer, Misbah-ul-haq developed into a first-class centre-order batsman, recognized for his composure with the bat, as well as having the ability to be an aggressive big-shot player when needed. Misbah-Ul-haq scored the fastest fifty in Test cricket and set a whole new record for the fastest test hundred and holds the record for most career ODI runs without a century. Misbah-Ul-haq holds an MBA in Human Resource Management from the University of Management and Technology in Lahore, Punjab. After announcing his retirement from cricket in 2015, Misbah-Ul-haq played test cricket for several years. On 4 April 2017, Misbah-Ul-haq announced his retirement from all international cricket following the conclusion of the West Indies tour. Misbah-Ul-haq retired from all codecs of Global Cricket on 14 May 2017.Misbah grew up in Mianwali in Punjab, Pakistan. His father, Abdul Qudus Niyazi, was a teacher who died at the early age of Misbah. Misbah is part of Niazi's own non-Pashto-speaking family; Pakistani cricketer and current Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan is a distant relative. In his early years, Misbah played ribbon ball cricket for his homeland, but his parents insisted that he get a very good education, and he completed his bachelor's degree in Faisalabad. He then enrolled at the University of Management and Technology to pursue an MBA. Misbah eventually made his debut in 1998 at the age of 24 for Sargodha. Misbah was immediately selected for the Pakistan test team in 2001 and the AUDI cricket team in 2002. Misbah  married Uzma Khan in 2004. The couple has two children.

Misbah was no longer the most successful achievement at the global level, but also at the domestic stage. His 2012 home season of thirteen turned into a memorable one. He captained the Faisalabad Wolves in the Twenty20 home match and the SNGPL in the first-elegant and list-a home tournament. First, he led SNGPL to victory in the President's Trophy against HBL Yunus Khan, and then Faisalabad Wolves won the Super-8 Faysal Bank against Shoaib Malik's Sialkot stallions in the last match. Although the Faisalabad Wolves lost the final in advance in the Faysal Bank T20 Cup against Mohammad Hafeez's Lahore Lions, but they got their revenge in the Super Eight tournament in the semi-finals and eventually won the tournament and most importantly qualified for the T20 Champions League. And in the final, Misbah led SNGPL to some other internal list-winning the tournament, the President's Cup in a duel with Rana Naved-ul-Hasan's WAPDA in the final. Misbah won all domestic tournaments (Twenty20, Great and list-A) in the 2012-13 season.

Misbah played in season 1 of the 2008 Indian Premier League for Royal Challengers Bangalore, while he played in the Sri Lankan Premier League for Kandurata Warriors in 2012. And he also represented the Saint Lucia Zooks in the 2013 Caribbean Premier League season. He also performed for Abhani in Bangladesh.Misbah revealed that he was offered a one-year contract through Worcestershire County Cricket Club to play in the English County Championship from 2013, but turned it down due to clashes with his international commitments. In 2015, Misbah signed with Rangpur Racers to play in the third edition of the Bangladesh Premier League. He has made the decision to play so as to stay fit and healthy for the upcoming test series with England in July 2016. In his most effective first sport for the Rangpur riders, Misbah scored 61 runs, smashing 4 sixes and winning his team's game by chasing a significant 187. It turned into a proposed Man of the Match award for performances.

Although he made his international debut back in 2001, his step up came when he was selected for the ICC World T20. Simba became influential in his prolific 2007 ICC World Twenty20, famously playing a paddle in the final for India's side in the final when Pakistan lost by 5 runs. He became the top run scorer from Pakistan and scored 0.33 points in the match. He also became the first Pakistani competitor to take 1st place in the ICC T20I batsman rankings. He also became the first Pakistani player to score 50 points in a T20I.His sixty-six-point knockout against Australia was the fourth best T20I score in 12 months according to ESPNcricinfo citizens. He was named in the "Team of the Tournament" using Cricinfo for the 2007 FIFA T20I World Cup.His knock of 161* against India in Bangalore turned into the third highest test score of the year according to ESPNcricinfo voters. 

In 2013, Misbah turned into a terrific one in terms of his batting. He has moved into the profession-a high-quality 7th region in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen. Misbah became the top scorer in ODI cricket with 1,373 runs in 2013, ahead of Mohammad Hafeez and Virat Kohli. In addition, he had 15 ODI 1/2 centuries, i.e. a document for the maximum ODI 1/2 century in a calendar year, as well as hitting the third-highest ODI sixes in 12 months. Despite Pakistan dropping all three in their games, h has developed into part of the "Team of the Tournament" in the 2013 Champions Trophy via the ICC. He was additionally named captain of the Cricinfo team.In the first test in Abu Dhabi against South Africa, Pakistan scored 442 runs, in which Misbah scored his fourth test century, which was second in the innings behind Khurram Manzoor's 146. In the second innings, Pakistan's batting collapsed and totalled 7/3, with the Magpies most comfortably needing a minor goal. When the two senior team members (Misbah and Younis Khan) came out to bat, Misbah hit sixes off the bowling of Robin Peterson and hit the winning runs with a straight six.In the second test in Dubai, Pakistan were bowled out for ninety-nine in the first innings. After South Africa scored a total of 517 and Graeme Smith made his 4th test double, and yet any other century from AB de Villiers, Pakistan faltered in an ignominious defeat. On 70/four Misbah got here and brought down the South African bowling attack with a stand of 197 runs, and Asad Shafiq repeated an equal stand of 2 in the first check, Misbah scored 88 before he wanted to destroy part-time spinner Dean Elgar over the cow nook, but immediately passed to Jacques Kallis. South Africa invited Pakistan to play South Africa in a domestic tournament from their 0.33 bilateral collection.

In 2014, he looked at a century of fifty-six deliveries in opposition to Australia in Abu Dhabi, which equalled the fastest delivery through Viv Richards. In July 2016, Misbah scored a century in a match against England at Lord's and became the oldest cricketer in eighty-two years to get an idea of a century.At the age of forty-two years and 2 months, Misbah additionally became the oldest captain ever to achieve the"look at the century".Misbah celebrated by saluting his team members and doing ten push-ups. He later explained during an interview that the celebration turned into a tribute to a Military training camp in Abbotabad, where the group attended an army fashion training consultation. During Pakistan's tour of India, Misbah scored points and became the acting Odi captain due to an injury to Malik Shoaib.

Earlier in 2010, after a trip to Australia, he was excluded from all codecs of the sport, and later decided to retire if the selectors continued to ignore him. He was overlooked during the tour of England, where the spot-fixing saga occurred, which resulted in Salman Butt being banned, creating a void in the team. Then, in October 2010, he became Pakistan's test captain at South Africa's training camp in the UAE. During Pakistan's tour of the West Indies, Misbah enjoyed success in the 2nd test match at Warner Park when he glanced a century for the first time in four years. After a training camp in the West Indies, Misbah replaced Shahid Afridi as team captain after coach and coach Waqar Younis were unhappy with Afridi's captaincy and embarrassing public statements. In January 2015, Misbah announced that he might retire from ODIs and T20Is after the 2015 World Cup.[33] Misbah captained Pakistan at the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia. He turned into the top run scorer in the tournament from Pakistan. Pakistan may want to make it to the quarter-finals most effectively. They were defeated by Australia in the quarter-final, which was the last ODI fit for Misbah.

In April 2016, Misbah decided to postpone his test retirement until after a trip to Australia in 2016/17.On October 31, Misbah ul-Haq ended his career in the PSL, but soon returned to his retirement in the PSL. In November 2016, against New Zealand in Christchurch, Misbah-ul-Haq was suspended for one year by the ICC for gradually speeding his side, meaning he had to pass the second test in Hamilton. On December 30, 2016, Cricinfo published an article indicating that Misbah might resign. However, he persevered in playing the longer format for the rest of the series with success, in which Pakistan beat England to become the world's No. 1 test group just as well. On 6 April 2017, Misbah finally announced his intentions to retire from all-world cricket after completing a tour of the West Indies. He played his last global suit on 10 May 2017 in the West Indies at Roseau. He scored his 39th test score during the first innings, but ignored just 2 runs in 2 innings. However, in his final match as captain, Pakistan won the suit via one hundred and one runs and sealed the collection with a score of 2-1.  The victory was marked as the collection's first ever win against West Indies in the West Indies, as Nietzsche.

On 4 September 2019, Misbah was appointed as the Chief Instructor of the Pakistan cricket team in addition to the Chief Selector on a 3-12 month agreement. This is the first time someone has held all positions at the same time in Pakistani cricket. It all started well for Misbah, who won the one-day international series 2-0. But then, as part of the T20 collection, Sri Lanka achieved an unexpected result and whitewashed Pakistan. He then led the group to Australia, where they lost the test series 2-0.In October 2020, he resigned as the chief selector of the Pakistan national cricket team.His first appearance as a head coach came in a match against New Zealand, in which Pakistan were defeated by a score 2: 0.He then led Pakistan to their first test series win against South Africa at the ground in 2003.