Umer Gul earned this nickname “Gul-Dozer” for his rattling the stumps on the field. Umer is now being called by Afghanistan Cricket Board, to be part of their side as a Bowling Coach. Umer’s stunning effort in Pakistan Cup, has paid off where he coached Balochistan, and they won the recent Pakistan Cup. He also coached Quetta Gladiators in PSL. It was so sad, when he couldn’t even got a chance to have a farewell from the team, he gave his 100% for. Now he is moving on to different assignment and will be coaching the talented and energetic Afghanistan’s Cricket Team.

Lets discuss about Umer Gul’s career in this blog. Umer made ODI debut for Pakistan in 2003 against Zimbabwe in Sharjah where he bowled 7 overs with an economy of 3.57 and took 2 wickets as well. He then got his test cap in 2003 against Bangladesh in Karachi in which he bowled 39 overs and got 2 wickets. His first t20 match was against Kenya in Nairobi where he bowled 3 over with an economy of 2.33 and remain wicketless. He played total 47 test matches, took 163 wickets with an economy of 3.47. The ODI records says, he played 130 matches, took 179 wickets with the economy of 5.19. Whereas in T20 he was quite incredible he got 5 wickets for 6 runs and that happened 2 times one against New Zealand in 2009 and other against South Africa in 2013. He played 60 matches, took 85 wickets with the economy of 7.19. He was also part of IPL when he played for KKR in IPL 1st edition. At the end i would not conclude this blog without mentioning his tremendous batting effort in icc world cup 2012 where he hit 3 gigantic sixes to win the match for Pakistan. His Yorkers and in-swingers will always hunt batsman in his era.