Pakistani Cricket Player : Junaid Khan

Junaid Khan Biography

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Mohammad Junaid Khan commonly known as Junaid Khan born (24th December 1989, Matra, Swabi District) is a Pakistani cricketer. He is the first player from Swabi to make it into the national team. Khan's rise through the Pakistan ranks were on course with the rise of Mohammad Amir, however Amir made it into the national team first. After Amir's involvement in spot-fixing the Pakistan pace attack changed significantly and after an-injury to Sohail Tanvir on the eve of the World Cup, Khan was called up as his replacement, with no experience in international cricket. Junaid Khan is also a left-arm fast bowler.

Junaid Khan Pakistani Fast Bowler Picture - Cricketer PCB. Muhammad Junaid Khan commonly called as Junaid Khan is a Pakistani international cricketer who bowls left arm fast-medium. He is the first player from Swabi to make it into the Pakistan national cricket team. Recently in 1st ODI, India's top order struggled against young Junaid Khan. He took four wickets in 1st ODI India vs Pakistan at Chennai.

Junaid Khan got selected for the ODI squad for Australia's tour of Pakistan in UAE, August–September 2012, playing his first series against Australia. However he was excluded from the T20 side, hence being excluded from the T20 World Cup being held in Sri Lanka in September.
This decision was criticised to be unjustified due to the selection of fast bowler Mohammad Sami and his recent performance against Sri Lanka.
In December 2012, Junaid Khan was again picked for the series against India and was given a chance in the ODI series and he performed superbly by picking up 4 wickets in the first match (clean bowled Sehwag, Kohli, Yuvraj) and helped in Pakistan win in first ODI and again performed superbly in the second ODI and picked up three wickets including two top order vital wickets of Gambhir and Kohli. So he has gained a place in Pakistan eleven and is considered to be one of the leading left arm fast bowlers of Pakistan who can bowl with pace, has the ability to bowl yorker and swings the bowl both ways.

Junaid Khan made his domestic debut in January 2007, he made his domestic debut aged 16. For four years he took wickets consistently for his domestic team Abottabad and he was the team's chief strike bowler, he also played for Abbottabad Falcons in the Faysal Bank Twenty20. Just before Junaid's world cup selection his first-class statistics read 167 wickets from 35 matches. His list-A statistics just before being selected for the world cup read 37 wickets from 27 matches. Khan also played for Pakistan A before making his World Cup debut.

Following the reccurrence of a knee injury to Sohail Tanvir, Khan was added in Pakistan's world cup squad. Khan expressed his delight at being selected to play for Pakistan in the world cup. He stated that he wasn't worried about any pressure and he was looking forward to playing India at some stage during the tournament and he wanted to take the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar.