Misbah ul haq cricketer biography for kids

Misbah-ul-Haq stands there, looking first to midwicket and then to cover. He is glancing around even as Joginder Sharma runs in. He raises his bat like an axe, ready to chop a tree, but the bat never comes down. The ball goes through to MS Dhoni, a wide.

Dhoni runs down the wicket to Joginder, perhaps trying to calm the bowler's nerves. The next ball is barely a foot straighter but is inside the white line. Misbah swings and misses; Dhoni applauds, and coughs. Pakistan require 12 from five with a wicket remaining, and the bowler seems to have revealed his plan.

The next ball, Misbah shuffles across so far, all three stumps are visible. Joginder attempts another yorker outside off, but bowls a high-ish full toss instead. Misbah responds with a six high and straight down the ground. Perhaps he doesn't get hold of it, but he gets enough. In the dugout Younis Khan laughs, and the Pakistan team cannot understand how they are about to win a game they had no right to. They should have been buried when they needed 81 off 50 with only Misbah and the tail left. And Misbah should have probably been buried a long time ago.

He still stands there, unmoved by the commotion around him, save for the occasional touch of the helmet, assessing the field. The replay shows hi

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Misbah-ul-Haq

The most remarkable aspect about Misbah-ul-Haq is his unflappable temperament. It shows in his batting, which reached unprecedented levels of consistency in 2011, and in his captaincy, which helped lift Pakistan from the depths of the spot-fixing saga in England in 2010. Taking over as leader immediately after that episode at the age of 36, Misbah's calm approach was exactly what Pakistan cricket needed after the tumultuous period it had gone through.

As a batsman, Misbah can either defend dourly with unflagging patience, or irritate bowlers with his improvisations. It helps that his defensive technique is sound: that solid foundation has helped him bat for long periods in Test cricket. That aspect of his game was in evidence right from his first Test innings in 2001, when he survived over two hours to score 28 in Auckland. He should have played much more international cricket thereafter, but was held back by his inconsistency. For four years between 2003 and 2007, he didn't play a single Test, and only turned up for a handful of ODIs.

However, a run-filled domestic season, followed by club cricket in England and Inzamam's retirement from ODIs, prompted the board to award Misbah a central contract in July 2007. A month later, he was surprisingly picked, ahead