Kamran Akmal

Kamran Akmal

Pakistan
2002 - 2017
  • Date of Birth 1982-1-13
  • Role wicketkeeper batter
  • Batting Style right-hand bat
  • Bowling Style
Debut Matches
Format Match Date
TEST PAK vs ZIM 2002-11-09
ODI PAK vs ZIM 2002-11-23
T20 ENG vs PAK 2006-08-28
vs 1970-01-01

Recent Performances

PAK Champs vs SA Champs
2025-08-02
Batting: 2
Bowling: -
AUS Champs vs PAK Champs
2025-07-29
Batting: -
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs WI Champs
2025-07-26
Batting: 113
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs SA Champs
2025-07-25
Batting: 17
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs ENG Champs
2025-07-18
Batting: 8
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs IND Champs
2024-07-13
Batting: 24
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs WI Champs
2024-07-12
Batting: 46
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs SA Champs
2024-07-09
Batting: 13
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs ENG Champs
2024-07-07
Batting: 11
Bowling: -
PAK Champs vs IND Champs
2024-07-06
Batting: 77
Bowling: -

Batting Statistics

Matches 53
Innings 92
Runs 2648
Average 30.79
Strike Rate 63.1
Highest Score 158*
100s 6
50s 12
Fours 372
Sixes 14
Catches 184

Bowling Statistics

Matches 53
Innings -
Wickets -
Average -
Economy -
Strike Rate -
Best Figure -
4 Wickets -
5 Wickets -
Balls Bowled -
Runs Conceded -

Batting Statistics

Matches 157
Innings 138
Runs 3236
Average 26.09
Strike Rate 83.94
Highest Score 124
100s 5
50s 10
Fours 378
Sixes 37
Catches 157

Bowling Statistics

Matches 157
Innings -
Wickets -
Average -
Economy -
Strike Rate -
Best Figure -
4 Wickets -
5 Wickets -
Balls Bowled -
Runs Conceded -

Batting Statistics

Matches 58
Innings 53
Runs 987
Average 21
Strike Rate 119.63
Highest Score 73
100s 0
50s 5
Fours 100
Sixes 31
Catches 28

Bowling Statistics

Matches 58
Innings -
Wickets -
Average -
Economy -
Strike Rate -
Best Figure -
4 Wickets -
5 Wickets -
Balls Bowled -
Runs Conceded -

Batting Statistics

Matches 340
Innings 305
Runs 9101
Average 32.38
Strike Rate
Highest Score 200
100s 21
50s 34
Fours
Sixes
Catches 368

Bowling Statistics

Matches 340
Innings
Wickets 0
Average -
Economy -
Strike Rate -
Best Figure -
4 Wickets 0
5 Wickets 0
Balls Bowled 0
Runs Conceded 0

Batting Statistics

Matches 291
Innings 274
Runs 6775
Average 26.56
Strike Rate 133.73
Highest Score 150*
100s 5
50s 45
Fours 775
Sixes 235
Catches 172

Bowling Statistics

Matches 291
Innings -
Wickets -
Average -
Economy -
Strike Rate -
Best Figure -
4 Wickets -
5 Wickets -
Balls Bowled -
Runs Conceded -
Kamran Akmal may well be the most emphatic proof of cricket's changed priorities post Adam Gilchrist. Sides now search for an explosive batsman who can change a day, an innings, a phase with the bat and so long as you can identify right wicketkeeping glove from left, the place is yours.
There has been little doubt about Akmal's batting. The purity of his drives and the strength of his cutting and pulling, particularly on slower subcontinent surfaces, has always held a strong allure. And when it comes together as it did one January morning in Karachi against India - one of the Test innings of that decade - he makes it in the side as a batsman alone.
But his glovework, which began so promisingly when he effectively ended the dogfight between Rashid Latif and Moin Khan in late 2004, has deteriorated alarmingly and few Pakistan matches are complete without a clumsy Akmal error.
It wasn't always thus, for he was good when he began, good enough to impress Ian Healy. But non-stop cricket in all three formats have let technical errors creep in and critics and experts have long pushed for the need for him to take a break.
To quality spin, he is often as lost as the batsmen and Danish Kaneria, over the years, has suffered in particular. In a string of error-ridden performances, the one nobody will forget will be the four dropped catches (and a missed run-out) in the Sydney Test of 2009-10, which allowed Australia to escape with a remarkable, traumatic win. Against this the memory of his Karachi hundred will always battle, with no clear winner ever likely to emerge. The tryst with controversy does his cause no good, with his refusal to accept his demotion from the side in the aftermath of a disastrous Sydney Test in 2009, eliciting a harsh fine and a disciplinary probation from the PCB.
Osman Samiuddin