| Farveez Maharoof | ||||
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 20 | 75 | ||
| Runs scored | 538 | 751 | ||
| Batting average | 19. The Sri Lankan cricket team is a national Cricket team representing Sri Lanka. Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations Note Most of the information here pertains to men's cricket ODI matches are also played in Women's cricket. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 92 | 19. 76 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/3 | 0/2 | ||
| Top score | 72 | 69* | ||
| Balls bowled | 2628 | 3075 | ||
| Wickets | 24 | 100 | ||
| Bowling average | 60. A delivery or ball in Cricket is a single action of Bowling a Cricket ball towards the Batsman. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket Bowling average is a Statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the Sport of Cricket. 75 | 23. 88 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 4/52 | 6/14 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 6/- | 16/- | ||
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As of 9 December 2007 |
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Mohamed Farveez Maharoof (born 7 September 1984 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer who plays his club cricket for the Indian Premier League team of Delhi DareDevils. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during For other uses see Stump (disambiguation Stump is a term used in the Sport of Cricket where has three different meanings Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Colombo ( Sinhala:, ˈkoləmbə Tamil: கொழும்பு is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries The Indian Premier League (also known as the " DLF Indian Premier League" and often abbreviated as IPL) is a Twenty20 Cricket competition Delhi Daredevils Home Ground The Daredevils play their home matches in the Feroz Shah Kotla ground located in New Delhi, under the newly installed
He is a promising new all-rounder in the Sri Lanka team. He first made his impression in the U19 World Cup in Bangladesh in which he captained the Sri lankan team. He enjoyed a prolific school career for Wesley College, with a highest score of 243 and best bowling figures of 8 for 20.
Maharoof has a sound batting technique and is able to adapt to many different scenarios. He is mostly known as a player who can score quick runs down the order, but he can also bat a more patient innings, especially if the top batting order collapses.
Maharoof's Test match bowling figures do not show his natural talent, as he is largely under-bowled, especially in the 2nd innings of Test matches. This was demonstrated in the 3rd Test between England and Sri Lanka in 2006 when he did not bowl in the entire match. The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales.
In the qualifying round of the 2006 Champions Trophy, he picked up the best bowling analysis in the history of the tournament (6-14), which is also the ninth best analysis in all ODIs. The 2006 ICC Champions Trophy was a One Day International Cricket tournament held in India from 7 October to 5 November 2006 That was against the defending champions West Indies, and was Maharoof's first five wicket haul in ODIs. The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies or The West Indies, is a multi-national Cricket team representing
Maharoof took 4/23 against Bermuda to start the 2007 World Cup and became the first Sri Lankan to take a 4 wicket haul on his World Cup debut [1]. The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was a Men 's Cricket Tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007 using the sport's
On 7 October 2007 Maharoof took his 100th wicket in his 75th ODI, becoming the fastest Sri Lankan to reach that landmark, beating Muttiah Muralitharan by one match [2]. Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Muttiah Muralitharan ( Tamil: முத்தையா முரளிதரன் born 17 April 1972 in Kandy, Sri Lanka) often referred to as Murali