Saeed Anwar
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Left handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Slow left arm orthodox | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | ODIs | ||
| Matches | 55 | 247 | ||
| Runs scored | 4052 | 8823 | ||
| Batting average | 45.52 | 39.21 | ||
| 100s/50s | 11/25 | 20/43 | ||
| Top score | 188 | 194 | ||
| Balls bowled | 8 | 40.3 | ||
| Wickets | 0 | 6 | ||
| Bowling average | N/A | 31.83 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | N/A | 2/9 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 18/0 | 42/0 | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 17 November 2005 | ||||
Saeed Anwar (Urdu: سعید انور, born September 6, 1968 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a former Pakistani opening batsman. A stylish left-hander, Anwar is most notable for scoring 194 runs against India in Chennai, a record total in ODI cricket, equalled by Zimbabwean opener Charles Coventry in August 2009.
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[edit] Career
An opening batsman capable of dismantling even the best bowling attacks, Anwar was an attacking batsman in one-day matches and once settled in Test matches, scored quickly and all over the field. His success came from good timing and wrist flicks rather than physical power, and Anwar became famous for his trademark flick. He was able to lift a ball that had pitched outside off stump for six over midwicket. Anwar's timing and ability to score quick runs made him a crowd favourite. He was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.
Anwar was the first Pakistani batsman to score a century against India on Indian soil in a one-day match. He has the highest Test batting average (59.06) of any Pakistani against Australia, and once scored three consecutive centuries against them. He scored a classic century against South Africa in Durban, which allowed Pakistan to win a Test match for the first time in South Africa.
On May 21, 1997 in Chennai, Anwar scored 194 against India in an ODI match.[1] This was the highest individual score by any batsman in the world. Charles Coventry equalled the feat on August 16 2009, against Bangladesh.[2]
Anwar is a member of the exclusive club of batsmen who have scored three successive hundreds in ODIs, with hundreds against Sri Lanka, West Indies and Sri Lanka during the 1993–94 Champions Trophy in Sharjah. He scored two successive hundreds on three other occasions in his career, and was the first batsman to complete this feat in ODIs.[3]
[edit] Records
Anwar holds the highest individual score in an ODI match (194). He has scored two or more successive hundreds on four occasions. He holds the highest Test batting average (59.06) of any Pakistani against Australia in Test matches, and made 20 hundreds in one day internationals as a Pakistan opening batsman.
[edit] Personal life
Anwar's loss of form coincided with a great personal tragedy in 2001, when his three year-old daughter died. He made his return to cricket after a long hiatus and was one of the most consistent Pakistani batsmen in the 2003 World Cup, with a century against India in his penultimate inning and an unbeaten 40 in his last inning, against Zimbabwe. The PCB axed most of the senior players in light of Pakistan's inability to make the second round of the 2003 CWC and Anwar was not selected again.
Anwar became a stout Muslim.
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