Umar Gul is Pakistan’s leading pacer retires from all formats of cricket. He receives the guard of honor on his last match. After the match, he thanked his friends and family. He started his career at the age of 19. In 2016, he played his last match for Pakistan. He played for the Baluchistan team in the National T20 Cup.
Gul announces his retirement on the 16th of October, 2020. After the last group stage match of the National T20 Cup. He has played 130 ODI’s, 47 Test series, and 60 T20’s. He has received the man of the Match 12 times.
Gul thanked Pakistan Cricket Board, team, and coaches for the support they provided to him in his career. Umar Gul thanked his fans and his followers for supporting him.
He then wrote “Thank u 2 all my fans and friends for the love that u all showered me with in the past 2 days. I’m humbled! Tried my best to read all the msgs n still will. Also want to thank my wonderful wife @MariamNaqsh and kids for the beautiful surprise that did make the retirement happy”.
Gul was Pakistan’s leading wicket-taker in the 2007 T20 World Cup in which they went to the finals. But, they lost in the finals against India. He was also the leading wicket-taker in the 2009 edition when Pakistan won the cup. He is known for bowling Yorkers.
Umar Gul represented Pakistan in the U-19 Cricket World Cup 2002 while playing in New Zealand. Wasim Akram and Gul fade away after the poor performance at the 2003 World cup. In 2012 his leg was injured while playing a match until then he was a regular member of the national team. He had his leg surgery in Australia during which he missed large parts of the 2013 and 2014 matches. But he didn’t give up and make a comeback in 2016. But, it was all too concise as the Pakistan selectors and the squad management seems to have moved on.
Gul kept on doing admirably in the more extended and more limited structures, acquiring first courtesy with the elastic in the 2007 World Cup, however helpless batting exhibitions saw the group making an early exit from the competition. As Twenty20 cricket became well known, Gul before long turned into the World’s best in the arrangement. He helped them to a last spot in the 2007 World Twenty20, in the long run lifting the prize in 2009.
In 2012, Gul was joined by Uva Next for the debut version of the Sri Lankan Premier League and helped them win the Twenty20 rivalry. Soon thereafter, he was additionally named in the crew for their lady Champions League T20.
Umar Gul was also known as a death over’s expert. In the death over’s, batsmen generally pursue the bowler on each conceivable conveyance, and Umar Gul was as yet ready to keep the players calm because of his exact Yorkers. In the 2009 World Cup for T-20 series Gul used to bowl his 4 over’s spell in the last 8 overs of the resistance innings.
Umar Gul ended up his career at a very economical rate. Amongst the 85 wickets, he took in his 60 games, forty-nine proportion of the batsmen pushed aside have been by way of Leg before wicket and bowled, and eleven proportion throughout catch via the keeper. This ability that most of the wickets that Gul took has been due to the fact of his astonishing bowling abilities. His bowling average is 16.97 in his career.
