On This Day: February 9, 1957 - Qasim Umar is born

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Kenyan-born, Qasim Umar was a prolific opening batsman with the ability to perform well anywhere in the middle order. He made his Test debut against India at Jullundur in 1983-84. In a career of just four years he played in 26 Tests, scoring 1502 runs with two double centuries, one century and 5 fifties, ending up with an impressive average of 36.63. With 15 catches to his credit, he was also a good fielder.

Qasim Umar's best score was 210 against India at Faisalabad in 1984-85, during which he also set a record second-wicket partnership of 250 with Mudassar Nazar. It was also a record individual Test score at Faisalabad, shared with Tasleem Arif. He then scored 206, also at Faisalabad, against Sri Lanka in 1985-86. He was unlucky to miss centuries in the Third Test against New Zealand at Dunedin in 1984-85, where he was out for 96 and 89. He played in 31 One-Day Internationals, scoring 642 runs with the help of four half centuries. His best ODI score was 69.

Qasim Omar won three international and five domestic Man of the Match awards. In 1985-86 he became the first player to ring the bell on corruption in international cricket. He even named some of the great players who were suspected of being involved. Though the cricket administrators took no notice of his disclosures, his revealtions marked the end of a brilliant cricket career.
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[ChachaCricket]

Wooo! Damn! What a sweet timer of the ball.
[MENTION=138241]axl100mph[/MENTION] Check some of the strokes in this video by Qasim(around 2:30). What a freaken player. Seamless transition on the backfoot and frontfoot, beautiful technique. Got goosebumps watching this.

 

[axl100mph]

This guy was way ahead of his time.
Was a great player of pace and I rate him higher than a coward like zaheer
Dont know why and how he could not make it big.
I heard he had issues with

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[axl100mph]

This guy was way ahead of his time.
Was a great player of pace and I rate him higher than a coward like zaheer
Dont know why and how he could not make it big.
I heard he had issues with

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Sorry, didnt read op
But I doubt that fixing was rife in the 80's.
He clearly had issues with imran as he comes across very bitter on the latter's mention

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[axl100mph]

Wooo! Damn! What a sweet timer of the ball.
[MENTION=138241]axl100mph[/MENTION] Check some of the strokes in this video by Qasim(around 2:30). What a freaken player. Seamless transition on the backfoot and frontfoot, beautiful technique. Got goosebumps watching this.

That drive at 2:30 was so anwerisque and the one against marshall had richards written all over it, with the peculiar backlift

Had some real flair.


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[ChachaCricket]

This guy was way ahead of his time.
Was a great player of pace and I rate him higher than a coward like zaheer
Dont know why and how he could not make it big.
I heard he had issues with

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Just unfortunate we don't have a proper board and system to nurture players like him. But man what a talent. He had more ability in his left pinky than Misbah, Younis, Azhar, Asad, Masood, Hafeez, Sarfaraz combined.

 

[Abdullah719]

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[Markhor]

He was an outstanding backfoot player and yet another example of a Pakistani cricketer's wasted potential because he didn't have his head screwed on straight.

Story of the last 70 years.

 

[Bewal Express]

I remember when he played but I never got to understand how a black Kenyan ended up playing for PK.

 

[nextover666666]

I remember when he played but I never got to understand how a black Kenyan ended up playing for PK.

This is Pakistan anything can happen mate lol but when I found out about this player I tried to google and get as much info as I can I find him very interesting and when I saw some clips of him play he was very good player and played some good shots it was too bad he didn't have a long career he would have been something if he could have played for a long time