Haris Rauf Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Haris Rauf

• Haris Rauf is a seam bowler from Pakistan who’s considered one of many quickest bowlers in modern-day’s cricket. He has the flexibility to bowl constantly for over 145 km/hr speeds.
  

  Harris Rauf’s bowling motion

• He got here into the limelight together with his efficiency in T20 World Cup 2021 that helped Pakistan to safe its place within the semis on 26 October 2021 towards the Kiwis. Kiwis have been batting first. They have been going sturdy with 36 for no loss in 5 overs. Then, captain, Babar Azam determined at hand over the ball to Haris Rauf. He didn’t disappoint his captain and scalped the prize wicket of Martin Guptill within the sixth over. Guptill was attempting to make a room in the direction of the leg facet. Rauf adopted him up and hit the stump immediately giving Pakistan their first breakthrough. This spell was applauded by many cricket followers the world over. Some of the Tweets have been like,
  

  SO SO SO IMPRESSED WITH HARIS RAUF. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 He has been tremendous fast however he’s proving to be such a wise bowler on this world cup thus far. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇵🇰💚 You can actually see him placing a lot effort & power. This generally is a match profitable efficiency!!! #PAKvNZ #T20WorldCup

  — Asim Azhar (@AsimAzharr) October 26, 2021

  What a spell by Haris Rauf!! Absolutely sensible efficiency by our bowlers- had the sport in management all the time! Here’s hoping Pakistan make this a simple chase! Come on boys! 🇵🇰🤩🤞🤞 #PAKvNZ #T20WorldCup

  — Hadeel Obaid (@hadouken51) October 26, 2021

  

  Harris Rauf celebrating after taking a wicket of Martin Guptill

• Talking about his efficiency within the T20 World Cup 2021, former Australian Leg spinner Bradd Hogg mentioned,
  

  “He is aware of that he’s uncooked, slightly moist behind the ears, he is aware of he’s not acquired a lot expertise and data on the worldwide degree. So, he’s listening to his teammates out within the center, like Babar Azam for one, Malik and Hafeez, these skilled gamers, simply to present him the consolation of the ball that he needs to bowl subsequent in these stress conditions. I assumed that was sensible and he did the identical factor towards New Zealand. You’ve acquired to adapt and you’ll adapt.“

  He additional provides,

  “One thing that he has got to be careful of is that he’s bowling that slower ball in a pattern. He is bowling alternate slower balls, so opposition teams are going to work this out and wait for the slower deliveries. So, he needs to shake up his pattern.”

• Since childhood, he wished to be knowledgeable footballer. He labored as a salesman on the store in Rawalpindi moreover simply enjoying tape-ball cricket. His becoming a member of in cricket occurred due to his coach who suggested him to go for a trial of the Lahore Qalandar crew.

• In an interview with an area channel, Haris Rauf informed,
  

  “Lahore Qalandars ka trial tha aur Tarif bhai (a coach) speed gun leke khade huye the (it was a Lahore Qalandars trial and Tarif bhai was standing with a speed gun). Ek banda 87 mari, toh mein socha mere ko is se zyada tez dalna hai (someone bowled at 87 mph, so I thought I had to bowl quicker than him). Toh jab ball dala, speed gun 88 dikhaya (so when I bowled, the speed gun showed 88 mph). Tabhi mere ko next round jane ka mauka mila (only then did I get the pass to qualify for the next round).”

• In 2017, he revealed
  

  “My father didn’t like cricket. He said without recommendation, you weren’t going to make a career. Then I got picked for Lahore Qalandars, where talent rather than recommendation has been the only yardstick.”

  In 2019, he was signed by the Melbourne crew to play within the Big Bash League changing the injured Dale Steyn the place he picked 20 wickets in his debut season.

• Talking about Haris Rauf’s journey in world cricket, a former Pakistani batter Salman Butt mentioned,
  

  “Yeh ek aise emerging star hai joh GT Road se nahi aaye hain (he’s one emerging star whose entry to the Pakistan team hasn’t been linear).”

• During a match in 2020 PSL, he apologized to Shahid Afridi after taking his wicket. To this, his coach Aaqib Javed mentioned,
  

  “He is going through a learning curve. He is grooming well, respecting his seniors. It’s imperative to grow not only as a cricketer but as a human being as well. I feel good when I see his development.”

  

  Haris Rauf apologized to Shahid Afridi after taking his wicket

• He had an distinctive PSL and BBL season. As a end result, he quickly acquired chosen for the nationwide crew in January 2020. He made his T20 International debut in January 2020 the place he took one wicket of Afif Hosein towards the Bangladeshi crew after conceding 32 runs in 4 overs. In June 2020, he was chosen in Pakistan’s squad for the tour of England however was omitted out on account of his COVID-19 constructive report together with two different gamers. He was changed by Mohammad Amir within the Test squad. In October 2020, he made his ODI debut towards Zimbabwe. In this match, he was bowling the opening spell together with Shaheen Shah Afridi however couldn’t handle to scalp a single wicket. Pakistan gained this match by 26 runs after posing 281 runs on the board.
  

  Harris Rauf giving autographs to his followers throughout BBL in Australia

• Two days later, within the subsequent sequence, he acquired his maiden ODI wicket of their captain Chamu Chibhabha; caught behind. In the following two video games, he took 2 and three wickets towards Zimbabwe. His finest bowling efficiency got here towards England on 13 July 2021. Having batted first, Pakistan scored 331 runs of their first inning with Babar Azam topping the scoring with 158 runs off 139 deliveries. In the seventh over, when England was batting, Rauf eliminated their opener Phil Salt on 37 runs when the crew’s rating was 53 runs. He additionally took three extra wickets however couldn’t forestall his crew’s defeat by three wickets.
  

  Haris Rauf (2nd from left) celebrates after taking a Zimbabwean wicket

• In July 2021, he was named in Category-C by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of the Centrally Contracted Players 2020-21. In an official launch issued by the PCB, Haris informed,
  

  “I am very happy to get this news in Derby and of course, would take it as a motivation for this year.”

• He performed 8 ODI video games (till October 2021) and took 14 wickets with an economic system of 5.97. His finest bowling is 4 wickets for 65 runs which got here towards England on 13 July 2021. He has taken his most wickets in England (6 wickets). His file in away ODI matches is best than house with 13 wickets. He has performed underneath Babar Azam on this format of cricket.

• In T20Is, he performed 27 matches (till October 2021) and took 35 wickets with an economic system of 8.58. His finest bowling efficiency of 4 wickets for 22 runs got here towards New Zealand on 26 October 2021. Against the identical facet, he has taken essentially the most wickets (9 wickets). In T20I, he has performed underneath the captaincy of Babar Azam and Shadab Khan.
  

  Haris Rauf taking a selfie together with his followers