Pakistan was made world champion in 1992, out of the team the very next year, then the Pak star was forced to beg

New Delhi. Who does not know about former Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad. When the Green team won the World Cup in 1992. He played an important role in that great battle. He played a total of eight matches for his team in the entire tournament. Meanwhile, a total of 437 runs came out of his bat including five fifties.

Miandad’s excellent batting can be gauged from the fact that he was the second top scorer of the tournament. The President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, impressed by his excellent game, awarded the country’s third largest civilian award Sitara-e-Imtiaz. However, it does not take long to change the days and in view of his declining performance throughout the year, he was shown the way out of the team.

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After being dropped from the team, he failed to make a comeback for the next three years. Former Pakistan all-rounder Basit Ali said that he was not included in the 14-member squad for the 1996 World Cup. But he wanted to play the sixth World Cup of his career. For this, he also sought help from the team captain Wasim Akram during that time.

Apart from Akram, he also spoke to 13 other players of the team, but no one accepted his request. Eventually Basit Ali took pity on him and took his name back and gave him a chance to join the team.

Javed Miandad’s International Cricket Career:

Javed Miandad played a total of 357 matches in his international cricket career. This includes 124 Tests and 233 ODIs. Miandad has 8832 runs in 189 innings of Test cricket at an average of 52.57. And in ODIs, he has scored 7381 runs in 218 innings at an average of 41.47.

In Test cricket, Miandad has 23 centuries, six double centuries and 43 fifties. At the same time, eight centuries and 50 fifties have come out of his bat in ODIs. In bowling, he has 17 wickets in Tests and seven wickets in ODIs.

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