Gulbadin Naib

Gulbadin Naib Biography

Gulbadin Naib, born in the Logar province of Afghanistan, wore his country's shirt for the first time, playing against Japan in the World Cricket League Division five at the age of 16. Ever since then he has been a regular feature in the Afghanistan side and has contributed immensely to their meteoric rise.

He even featured in the famous documentary, Out of the Ashes, which depicted the success story of Afghanistan in the field of cricket. In the documentary, it is revealed that apart from cricket, Gulbadin Naib is also a passionate bodybuilder. He cited Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of his main inspirations.

He is a right-arm medium fast bowler and specializes as a wicket-taker, but doesn't have a great economy rate to go with that. He was selected in the Afghanistan squad for the ICC World Cup 2015 at the age of just 23.

The way he has performed indicates that he may have only finished one-fourth of his cricketing career and has a lot to contribute to Afghanistan cricket and possibly see them take the step from an ODI side to a Test side.

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Gulbadin Naib Batting & Fielding Averages

Career	M	In	R	NO	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	0	--	--	--		--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
ODIs	41	34	615	5	82*	21.20	851	72.26	0	4	39	22	8	0
T20s	38	31	432	9	56*	19.63	357	121.0	0	1	31	20	17	0
World Cup	1	1	0	0	0	0.000	1	0.000	0	0	0	0	1	0

Gulbadin Naib Bowling Averages

Career	M	B	R	W	Avg	EC	SR	5WI	10WM	BBI	BBM
Test	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
ODIs	41	1160	996	29	34.34	5.151	40.00	0	0	4/27	4/27
T20s	38	264	394	9	43.77	8.954	29.33	0	0	0/5	0/5
World Cup	1	54	53	1	53.00	5.888	54.00	0	--		4/27

Gulbadin Naib Career statistics

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