This Pakistani batsman has not yet played a Test match for his country and after showing good game in the county, this batsman will try to make a place in the Test team.
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Pakistan batsman Haider Ali will now play cricket in England. Derbyshire has tied up with this right-handed batsman. Haider will play for this county in the 2023 season. Prior to signing Haider, the county saw his international level performance with red ball performance. Haider has not played any Test match for Pakistan but he has played 11 first-class matches, scoring 978 runs at an impressive average of 54.33. This includes three centuries and four half-centuries. His highest score is 206.
He will be available for every match for Derbyshire in the 2023 county season. He is one of the two foreign players in the county along with Sri Lankan fast bowler Suranga Lakmal. Haider will try to open the doors of Pakistan’s Test team by showing a good game here. This batsman has played two ODIs and 33 T20 matches for Pakistan. He was part of the Pakistani team in the ICC T20 World Cup-2022.
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Mickey Arthur is the county coach
The Pakistan Cricket Board had recently asked its former coach Mickey Arthur to take over the responsibility again. But Arthur refused. Now Haider will play in Derbyshire under his coaching. Arthur is the coach of Derbyshire. On signing Haider, the coach said, “Haider is a very talented batsman who has great experience at the international level. Which will prove beneficial for us in all formats. I spoke to him during the T20 World Cup. Apart from this, even during the Lanka Premier League. He is eager to come to England and prove himself as an all-format batsman.
While signing with this county, Haider said, “I have seen that the player of Pakistan has made a great improvement in his game playing county cricket. I want to do the same. Arthur is one of the most respected people in world cricket. He is respected a lot in Pakistan even today. I am very excited to learn from him.
Haider will follow the path of Shan Masood!
Haider would like to follow the path of his own country’s batsman Shan Masood, who played brilliantly with the same team and returned to Pakistan’s Test team. Masood scored 1766 runs for this county last season. This season he will play for Yorkshire.