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Umar Gul Biography
Full Name: Umar Gul
Date of Birth: Apr 14, 1984, Peshawar, North-Western Frontier Province
Major Team: Pakistan, Gloucestershire, Habib Bank Limited, Kolkata Knight Riders, North West Frontier Province, North West Frontier Province Panthers, Pakistan A, Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar
Playing Roll: Bowler
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast-medium
Date of Birth: Apr 14, 1984, Peshawar, North-Western Frontier Province
Major Team: Pakistan, Gloucestershire, Habib Bank Limited, Kolkata Knight Riders, North West Frontier Province, North West Frontier Province Panthers, Pakistan A, Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar
Playing Roll: Bowler
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast-medium
Umar Gul is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket
who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20
Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team.
He has gained fame as one of the most successful bowlers in Twenty20
cricket finishing as the leading wicket taker and bowler in both the
2007 and 2009 Twenty20 World Championship tournaments.
Gul was born in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan he was
born in a middle-class family and frequently played tape-ball cricket.
People on the street encouraged Gul to become an international
cricketer as they saw his superb bowling. On October 2010 Gul's family
announced that he was to wed a Dubai Doctor. The doctor is from the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and she was born there as well.
On 30 May 2012, Pakistan Army raided Umar Gul's house in Peshawar and
arrested his brother on the charge of hiding a wanted militant.
In February 2008, Gul signed with the Indian Premier League and was
drafted by Shahrukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders franchise for US
$150,000.
He played in six matches, taking 12 wickets at an average of 15.33,
including a player of the match award in Kolkata's final game in which
Gul took 4-23 and scored 24 runs from 11 balls.
In December 2008 Gul signed with the Western Warriors to compete in
the Australian domestic 2008-09 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash tournament.
He performed very well in his debut match for the Warriors, taking 4 wickets for 15 runs in a losing side.
He was amongst the most successful bowlers in the competition despite
not being available for the entire tournament he finished second top
wicket taker with 12 wickets.
Internationally, Gul has taken 47 wickets in just 32 games at an average of 14.65, a truly outstanding statistic.
He is the second leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 Internationals
behind teammate Shahid Afridi.Umar Gul, after taking five-for in
Twenty20 International Cricket, bec
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