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(born
April 14 ,
1984 in
Peshawar ) is a
Pakistani Cricketer who has played five
Test Matches and 15
One-day International s for
Pakistan as a specialist
Fast Bowler . However, injury has prevented him from a long international career, as he was out of cricket for an entire season after his international debut.
He was first called up for the team in April 2003, playing four one-day matches at the
Cherry Blossom Sharjah Cup against
Zimbabwe ,
Kenya and
Sri Lanka , where he took four wickets, and he was in and out of the one-day team after that tournament. However, he played the whole of the
2003–04 home series against
Bangladesh , making his Test debut and taking 15 wickets in the three Tests, and took the second-most wickets of any Pakistani bowler in the series, behind
Shabbir Ahmed with 17. However,
Shoaib Akhtar , who took 13 in third place, only played two of the Tests.
Gul was retained for the ODIs against Bangladesh, taking a
List A best five for 17 in nine overs in the third match, and ended with 11 wickets in the 5–0 series win. However, he could still not command a regular spot, playing three of Pakistan's nine next ODIs before finally getting dropped after one for 36 against
New Zealand . He played two Tests after that, however, taking four wickets in a drawn Test against New Zealand before coming in as replacement for Shabbir Ahmed in the second Test of the three-Test series against
India . After coming on as first-change bowler, Gul dismissed
Virender Sehwag with his second over, and then bowled unchanged for 12 overs either side of lunch to take five Indian top order wickets - including
Rahul Dravid and
Sachin Tendulkar , who both had Test batting averages above 50, as did Sehwag. Gul finished with five for 31 in his spell, earning him commendation from Cricinfo journalist Dileep Premachandran, who praised his "control of line and length"
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However, he was then ruled out of the third Test with a back injury which kept him out of cricket for an entire year. He returned to play two games at the
2004–05 Twenty20 Cup , and played some matches for
Pakistan A and a Pakistan XI in warm-up games before the Test matches against
England the following season, but he was not selected for the matches and has instead played three matches with
Peshawar at the
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy .
