Sussex sign Umar Gul for 2011 Friends Life T20 tournament
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sussex-c852 County Cricket Club have signed Pakistan’s Yorker specialist, Umar Gul, for their 2011 Friends Life T20 campaign.
Umar Gul would join his compatriot, Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan at Hove.
The right-arm medium pacer said that he was very excited to be following in the footsteps of Pakistani cricket greats such as the legendary Imran Khan, and join the Sharks.
"Coming to Sussex is a privilege and the chance to follow in the footsteps of other Pakistani greats from Imran Khan to Mushtaq Ahmed, and to Rana Naved in the current team, is very exciting", said Gul while talking to the media after
he was signed up by the Sussex CCC for their T20 competition.
The 27-year old fast bowler from the impoverished Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482, tops the wicket table of Twenty20
cricket with 53 wickets from 43 games while Gul has compiled 47 wickets from 34 matches. His 47 scalps have come at an average of 16 and and an economy rate of 6.47 per over.
His figures of 5 for 6 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in the 2009 World Twenty20 championship, however, remain the best by any international bowler in a Twenty20 international.
Gul was also one of the most successful bowlers during Pakistan’s controversial tour of England last summer and was the leading wicket-taker in the five-match One Day International (ODI) series.
This could be the first time the Twenty20 death overs specialist of Pakistan features in a county season. Though he was signed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gloucestershire-c785 in the 2007 season, the right-armer missed the chance to play even a single county game
duo to an ankle injury.
Gul has also played for Shah Rukh Khan-owned Kolkata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Western-Australia-c865 in the 2008-09 Big Bash tournaments.
Sussex were the champions of the 2009 Friends Provident T20 competition, however, they lost in the quarter-finals of the 2010 season.
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