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Saeed Anwar (Urdu: سعید انور; born September 6, 1968 in Karachi, Sind) is a former Pakistani left-handed opening batsman and ocasional Slow left arm orthodox bowler who played international cricket between 1989 and 2003. He played 55 Test matches scoring 4052 with the help of eleven centuries while in 247 One Day Internationals (ODIs) he made 8824 runs. He made twenty centuries in ODIs which are the most than any other pakistani batsman in the format.^[1][2]

In February 1999, Anwar became the third Pakistani to carry his bat through a Test innnings, following father and son Nazar Mohammed and Mudassar Nazar. He scored 188 not out - single-handedly beating his team's previous innings (185), when he mad a duck, and contributing 60 per cent of a total of 316.^[3][4] It was also the highest Test score by a Pakistani on Indian soil which was surpassed by Younis Khan (267) in 2005.^[4][5][6] He is most notable for scoring 194 runs against India in Chennai in 1997, then the highest, and now the joint third highest individual score in a ODI.^[7][8]

Personal life[link]

Saeed Anwar graduated from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi in 1989 and is an engineer by profession. He was planning to go to the United States for his Master's studies before becoming a professional test Cricketer.

He faced a personal tragedy in 2001, when his daughter died after a prolonged illness.^[9] As a result he turned to religion.^[10] He made his return to Cricket after a long hiatus and was one of the most consistent Pakistani batsmen in the 2003 World Cup.

On 15 August 2003, he announced his retirement from Cricket after he was dropped from the squad for the upcoming One-Day International tournament in Sharjah.^[11] He devoted his life to preaching Islam across Pakistan with the Tablighi Jamaat. He led the funeral prayers for his former team mate Wasim Akram's spouse, Huma Akram, in Lahore.^[12] He is also believed to be responsible for Yousuf Youhana's conversion to Islam in 2005. Youhana was the only Christian on the Pakistan cricket team till then and was said to be heavily influenced by Aanwar and the Tablighi Jamaat.

International career[link]

An opening batsman capable of annihilating any bowling attack on his day, Anwar was an attacking batsman in ODI matches and once settled in Test matches, scored quickly and all over the field. His success came from good timing. Anwar became famous for his trademark flick. He was able to lift a ball that had pitched outside off stump for six over midwicket. Anwar's timing and ability to score quick runs made him a crowd favourite. He was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.^[14]

Anwar was the first Pakistani batsman to score a century against India on Indian soil in a ODI match. He has the highest Test batting average (59.06) of any Pakistani against Australia, and once scored three consecutive centuries against them. He scored a classic century against South Africa in Durban, which allowed Pakistan to win a Test match for the first time in South Africa.

One Day International Career[link]

Under the captaincy on Imran Khan, Anwar started his international career on January 1, 1989 with a ODI match played at WACA Ground which Pakistan lost to West Indies. He scored only 3 runs in the match.^[15]

On 21 May 1997 in Chennai, Anwar scored 194 against India in India in an ODI match.^[16] Charles Coventry equalled the feat on 16 August 2009, against Bangladesh.^[17] This was the highest individual score by any batsman in the world till Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 200 against South Africa on 24 February 2010 which later was surpassed by Virender Sehwag's 219.

Anwar is a member of the exclusive club of batsmen who have scored three successive hundreds in ODIs, with hundreds against Sri Lanka, West Indies and Sri Lanka during the 1993–94 Champions Trophy in Sharjah. He scored two successive hundreds on three other occasions in his career, and was the first batsman to complete this feat in ODIs.^[18]

Test Career[link]

Records[link]

Anwar (194) and Charles Coventry (194*) shared the record for highest individual score in an ODI match until it was overtaken by India's Sachin Tendulkar (200*) against South Africa cricket team on 24 February 2010 and Virender Sehwag's 219 against West Indies on 8 December 2011 at Indore. Anwar has scored two or more successive hundreds on four occasions. He holds the highest Test batting average (59.06) of any Pakistani against Australia in Test matches, and made 20 hundreds in One Day Internationals as a Pakistan opening batsman.

Saeed Anwar's career performance graph.

Centuries scored by Saeed Anwar[link]

One Day International centuries[link]

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

One Day International centuries of Saeed Anwar^[19]

	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	126	12	Sri Lanka	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval	1990
[2]	101	20	New Zealand	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1990
[3]	110	34	Sri Lanka	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1993
[4]	107	39	Sri Lanka	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1993
[5]	131	40	West Indies	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1993
[6]	111	41	Sri Lanka	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1993
[7]	104*	65	Australia	Rawalpindi, Pakistan	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	1994
[8]	103*	76	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	1995
[9]	115	107	Sri Lanka	Nairobi, Kenya	Nairobi Gymkhana Club	1996
[10]	104*	112	New Zealand	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1996
[11]	112*	113	Sri Lanka	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1996
[12]	194	121	India	Chennai, India	MA Chidambaram Stadium	1997
[13]	108*	136	West Indies	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1997
[14]	104	139	India	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	1997
[15]	140	145	India	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Bangabandhu National Stadium	1998
[16]	103	178	Zimbabwe	London, United Kingdom	Kennington Oval	1999
[17]	113*	179	New Zealand	Manchester, United Kingdom	Old Trafford Cricket Ground	1999
[18]	105*	210	Sri Lanka	Nairobi, Kenya	Gymkhana Club Ground	2000
[19]	104	211	New Zealand	Nairobi, Kenya	Gymkhana Club Ground	2000
[20]	103	246	India	Centurion, South Africa	Centurion Park	2003

Test Cricket centuries[link]

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Test Cricket centuries of Saeed Anwar^[20]

	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	169	3	New Zealand	Wellington, New Zealand	Basin Reserve	1994
[2]	136	5	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	P Saravanamuttu Stadium	1994
[3]	176	17	England	London, United Kingdom	The Oval	1996
[4]	107	21	New Zealand	Rawalpindi, Pakistan	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	1996
[5]	118	28	South Africa	Durban, South Africa	Kingsmead	1998
[6]	145	32	Australia	Rawalpindi, Pakistan	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	1998
[7]	126	33	Australia	Peshawar, Pakistan	Arbab Niaz Stadium	1998
[8]	188*	38	India	Kolkata, India	Eden Gardens	1999
[9]	119	41	Australia	Brisbane, Australia	Brisbane Cricket Ground	1999
[10]	123	47	Sri Lanka	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2000
[11]	101	55	Bangladesh	Multan, Pakistan	Multan Cricket Stadium	2001

Player of the Series Awards(Tests)[link]

S No	Series (Opponents)	Season	Series Performance[21]
1	New Zealand in  Pakistan (Test Series)	1996/97	157 Runs (2 Matches & 3 Innings, 1x100, 0x50); 2 Catches

See also[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pepsi Independence Cup, sixth qualifying match WISDEN
• Most runs in an innings
• (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4260516.stm)

v t e Pakistan squad – 1996 Cricket World Cup 1 Wasim Akram (c) 2 Aamer Sohail (Vice-captain) 3 Aaqib Javed 4 Ata-ur-Rehman 5 Ijaz Ahmed 6 Inzamam-ul-Haq 7 Javed Miandad 8 Mushtaq Ahmed 9 Rameez Raja 10 Rashid Latif (wk) 11 Saeed Anwar 12 Saleem Malik 13 Saqlain Mushtaq 14 Waqar Younis

v t e Pakistan squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup Runners-up 1 Wasim Akram (c) 2 Moin Khan (wk) 3 Saleem Malik 4 Ijaz Ahmed 5 Waqar Younis 6 Saeed Anwar 7 Mushtaq Ahmed 8 Inzamam-ul-Haq 9 Saqlain Mushtaq 10 Shahid Afridi 11 Azhar Mahmood 12 Abdul Razzaq 13 Yousuf Youhana 14 Shoaib Akhtar 15 Wajahatullah Wasti Coach: Mushtaq Mohammad

v t e Pakistan squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Waqar Younis (c) 2 Abdul Razzaq 3 Azhar Mahmood 4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 5 Mohammad Sami 6 Rashid Latif (wk) 7 Saeed Anwar 8 Saleem Elahi 9 Saqlain Mushtaq 10 Shahid Afridi 11 Shoaib Akhtar 12 Taufeeq Umar 13 Wasim Akram 14 Younis Khan 15 Yousuf Youhana Coach: Richard Pybus

Imran Khan Niazi عمران خان نیازی
Personal details
Born	(1952-11-25) 25 November 1952 (age 59) Lahore, West Punjab, Dominion of Pakistan
Political party	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Spouse(s)	Jemima Khan (1995–2004)
Children	Sulaiman Qasim Khan
Residence	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Alma mater	Keble College, Oxford
Occupation	Politician Philanthropist Cricketer
Religion	Islam
Website	PTI

Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992.^[1] After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches.^[2] On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.^[3]

In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman of a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice).^[4] He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007.^[5] Foreign Policy magazine has described him as "Pakistan's Ron Paul".^[6]

Through worldwide fundraising, he has also helped establish the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in 1996 and Mianwali's Namal College in 2008.

Family, education, and personal life[link]

Imran Khan was born in Lahore, the only son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer, and his wife Shaukat Khanum.^[7] Although long settled in Mianwali in Punjab, the family were of Pashtun ethnicity and belonged to the Niazi Shermankhel tribe.^[8] A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his four sisters in relatively affluent (upper middle-class) circumstances^[9] and received a privileged education. He was educated the Cathedral School in Lahore, the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket, and at Aitchison College, Lahore. In 1972, he enrolled to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a second-class degree in Politics and a third in Economics.^[10] Khan's mother hailed from the Burki family which had produced several successful hockey players,^[7] as also cricketers such as Javed Burki and Majid Khan.^[8] Early in life, Khan developed an interest in cricket, which is an extremely popular sport in Pakistan.

Marriage to Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith[link]

On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in an Islamic ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond register office in England, followed by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey.^[11] . The marriage, described as "tough" by Khan,^[8] produced two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 18 November 1996) and Kasim (born 10 April 1999).^[12] As an agreement of his marriage, Khan spent four months a year in England. On 22 June 2004, it was announced that the Khans had divorced because it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to life in Pakistan".^[13] The marriage ended amicably. Imran has regular access to his children and his relationship with his ex-wife is friendly. Khan now resides in Bani Gala, Islamabad, where he built a farmhouse with the money he gained from selling his London flat. He grows fruit trees, wheat, and keeps cows, while also maintaining a cricket ground for his two sons, who visit during their holidays.^[8]

Cricket career[link]