Veteran Pakistan cricketer Azhar Ali said that he thought that it was hard to persuade individuals that he could turn into an expert batsman in the wake of beginning his vocation as a bowler. The 36-year-old Azhar, who’s likewise a previous public captain, has been a productive run-scorer for Pakistan throughout the long term, however he hasn’t played a ton of white-ball cricket in his vocation.
Azhar sharpened his abilities as a leg-break bowler during age-bunch cricket and made his top notch debut in 2001-02 as a tweaker also. In any case, as time passed by, he neglected to sparkle in bowling and subsequently, moved to turning into an expert player.
Azhar said that it took him to cause individuals to understand that he could prevail as an expert batsman going on. He made the disclosures while talking on a video delivered by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
I battled and I thought my cricket profession had wrapped up: Azhar Ali
“I played for Pakistan Under-19, under 17 and the greater part of my cricket was as a bowler. My top notch debut was as a bowler and I played as a bowler in the initial 11 matches yet when I entered the five star cricket, my activity changed and my bowling saw a plunge,” Azhar said.
“I battled and I thought my cricket profession had wrapped up. Around then, I began dealing with my batting yet when a player has created (as a bowler) no one truly accepts immediately that you could play as a batsman as it were. So that cycle was troublesome and breaking into the side as a batsman was hard,” he expressed.
In five star, List An and T20 cricket, Azhar has gotten a consolidated count of 132 wickets in 432 matches with four five-wicket pulls. Truth be told, he additionally has 12 wickets for Pakistan from 140 games. When Azhar began tasting accomplishment as a player, he didn’t think back.
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“I got a chance eventually and I was fortunate to get an opportunity for KRL. In one match, they played me as a batsman and I had the option to score pursues and that, they saw my latent capacity and afterward I began to get openings consistently,” Azhar Ali added.
Playing for Pakistan, Azhar Ali has scored 6579 and 1845 runs in 87 Tests and 53 ODIs separately with 21 centuries and 45 half-hundreds of years.
