Abdul qadir cricketer biography

Cricket has Abdul Qadir to thank for keeping wristspin alive through the late 1970s and '80s.

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He did it with style, too. Blessed with a fast bowler's temperament and fire, he surrounded his craft with mystique. Before the 1982 tour to England, captain Imran Khan asked him to grow a French beard to enhance the aura and it worked: England were his favourite victims through his career, responsible for his international breakthrough in 1977-78 as well as his finest hours, at The Oval in 1987 and in the home series later that year, where he took 30 wickets in three Tests, including the best bowling in an innings by a Pakistani, 9 for 56, in Lahore.

Graham Gooch, who faced him that day, said Qadir was even finer than Shane Warne, to whom he passed on the candle.

Qadir's action was a wonderfully extravagant routine, and he admitted more than once that it was contrived as a spectacle to distract batters. Variety was the key; it was said he had six different deliveries per over Abdul Qadir: The mystique who deceived many a cricketing giant ZUB