Rana Naved-ul-Hasan

Who is Rana Naved-ul-Hasan?

Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for the Test and One Day International teams. He also plays for Derbyshire County Cricket Club in England and Dhaka Gladiators in BPL. He has been fairly consistent in his performances overseas, being good with bat and smart bowl.

A right-arm fast-medium bowler capable of generating good pace with late swing, he is a genuine strike bowler. Although he was prone to leaking runs in his earlier career, of late he has used vast county experience to be economical in death overs. He often bowls the reverse-swinging yorker in one day and T20 cricket and has good control over changes of pace, though he sometimes can be expensive. Rana is also a useful attacking lower-order batsman with 5 first class centuries and many fifties, including a score of 95 in 57 balls in a T20 game which lifted his team Sialkot Stallions to the tournament final. He left playing cricket due to personal reasons during 1995–1999.

Rana has only made the occasional Test appearance for Pakistan with little success, having to compete with Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul and Mohammad Sami for a place in the side. As a result he has become regular in ODI.