Abdur Razzaq, Pakistan – Player profile

We’re sure we remember Abdur Razzaq telling everyone that actually he was called ‘Abdul’ a few years back, but no-one seems to have paid him any attention, so ‘Abdur’ it is.

Abdur Razzaq’s been around for far longer than his actual age. He actually looks substantially older than his age as well, we’d have to say. What do you reckon? Abdur Razzaq is Pakistan’s eternally reliable first-change bowler and despite a Test batting style that errs on the side of obduracy, in the one-day game he’s a combustible lower-order batsman of the Shahid Afridi school. Maybe it’s many years of batting alongside Afridi that’s rubbed off. Maybe he saves his energy for one-dayers. Maybe he’s literally two different people. We can’t really explain it.

Update: Apparently everyone IS calling him 'Abdul' these days. We're not changing it. We can't be bothered. You have to change all the links and things as well. We're not doing it. Get your own Cricket World Cup 2007 website if you've got a problem with that.

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