Moeen Ali
Moeen Ali is an English International
cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-spinner and also
batting all-rounder. After 2006 season he had played county cricket for
Warwickshire. He represented England in all formats and won Warwickshire’s NBC
Denis Compton Award in 2004 and 2005. In 2009 he was also nominated for
Worcestershire’s NBC Denis Compton Award. In 2015 he was nominated as Cricketer
of the Year. In the Indian Premier League, he played for the Royal Challengers
Banglore.
Domestic Career:
For the County’s Second XI he was signed
for Warwickshire and made a half-century. He made his first-class debut in 2005
against Cambridge University. He made 57 not out. In the same year against Sri
Lanka, he made 52 not out, 100 not out and took seven wickets. In 2006 he was
selected for the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.Coach Andy Pick
selected him as a captain and he made three half-centuries and took seven
wickets in the tournament. In 2006 he played for his first List A matches.
Against derbyshire, he played his first
List A
match. In the first-class cricket, he took his first wickets. In his debut
in the County Championship, he scored 68 runs against Nottinghamshire.
On April 5,2007 he made his debut for
Worcestershire. He scored 250 highest first-class against Glamorgan at New
Road. He had a partnership of 219 with Matt Pardoe. Worcestershire gave him a promotion to the first division of the County Championship at the end of 2010
season. Bangladeshi all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan suggested him to play club
cricket in Bangladesh. Later then he represented Mohammedan Sporting Club in the
Ispahani Premier Division in 2010. In 2011 he spent three weeks as a captain in
2011 season. It was for the first time that he had a chance of captaincy at the county. He scored 390 runs in the County
Championship and at this event he made himself the club’s second –highest
scorer in the competition behind Solanki. He scored a single century and his
average was 33.21 runs per innings. He was later on included in the 13-man
England Development squad.International Career:
In 2014 he was selected for the English
squad for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. On 28 match he made half-century by scoring 55 runs.
In 2014 scored 49 runs in 4 matches as he was a part of England’s World T20
squad. In the same year, he played in the Test series against Sri Lanka. He scored
48 in the first inning and scored 4 in the second inning and made his debut in
the first Test. He made his maiden century in the second innings of the second
Test.
In the same year, Ali took four wickets in
the first Test against India and 41
runs. He scored 32 and 39 in the second Test. In the third Test of the series, he took his first 5 wicket haul. In the first three ODIs against India, he
didn’t play but he was selected for the fourth match of the ODI. In the final match
of the ODI, he took 2-34 and England won the first match of the series. In the
first ODI of the seven-match series, he hit 19 off 87 balls. In the third match, he scored 58 and took figures of 2-34 and thus England won the first match.
In 2015 he made 10 with the bat in the
first match of 2015 World Cup Campaign against Australia. Against Scotland, he
scored a century and made 128 form 107 balls. He got the man of the match award and
took two wickets. For the Second Test Match series, he took figures of 1-47 in the
first innings. In the third match, he made 58 in the first innings. Ali scored 58
in the first test series against New Zealand. In New Zealand’s innings, he took three
wickets and England won by 124 runs. For the 2015 Ashes series, he was selected
and scored 77 in England’s first innings. Later on, he took 3-59 in Australia’s second innings. In the second
test of Australia’s first innings, he made figures of 1-38. He took 2-78 in
Australia’s second innings but unfortunately, England faces defeat.Ali took figures
of 13 and made 72 with the bat in the T20 match. He got the award of the man of the match. He made 17 in the first ODI
series against Australia but unfortunately, England also faces defeat in that
match. He took figures of 1-68 but England lost in the match. In the next game, he
took 3-32 which helped England towards their first success of the series. In the
fourth match of the series, he took 2-40 which helped England to a three-wicket
victory.
In 2015 in the the first Test against Pakistan he tried hard with the ball scored 121 runs in the first innings. He took two wickets in the second innings. He
took one wicket in each of the first three matches which helped a lot England
into a 2-1 series. He took figures of 1-30 and 1-22 in the two of the T20Is.
In 2016 in the
Test series against South Africa. he returned back to his lower middle order
place. England won in the first test by 241 runs and he was awarded as Man of
the Match. England won the series by 2-1. He took figures of 3-43 in the first
match of ODI series against South Africa and England won by 39 runs on DL method. In the next match, England took a
five-wicket victory but unfortunately
England lost the final three matches of the series. In the T20 match, he took
2-22 and England lost the match by 3 wickets. In the second match, he took
figures of 1-25 but South Africa won the game by nine wickets. In 2016 in the
T20 World Cup he took figures of 1-38 against West Indies,2-34 against South
Africa and 1-17 against Afghanistan. In the T20 World Cup, he also made a record
for the highest partnership with David Willey for the 8th
wicket. England won by 7 wickets and qualify for the final as he took figures of
1-10 against New Zealand. In the second Test against Sri Lanka at
Chester-Le-Street he scored his second century. He scored 155 not out including
2 sixes which helped a lot in England to reach a score of 498-9. England won by
nine wickets he took one wicket in the match.In th first ODI against Sri
Lanka, he took figures of 1-69.IN the second Test against Pakistan he took
figures of 2-43 in Pakistan’s first innings and 3-88 in England’s second
innings so England won by 330 runs. In the third match, he scored 63 runs with
the bat in England’s first innings. In the final match of the series he made
108 and Pakistan won the match by ten
wickets. England won by 44 runs in first ODI and he took figures of 1-30. He has
failed to take any wicket in the second ODI but he scored 21 and England
won by four wickets. England won by 169 runs in the third match and he took one
wicket. He took figures of 2-39 in the fourth match and scored 45.
He made 68 in the
first Test in England’s first innings and took figures of 3-75 against
Bangladesh. In the second test, he took figures of 5-57 and he took only one
wicket in the second innings. In the first Test against India, He scored 117 runs
and England made 537 runs. He took figures of 2-85 and match ended in a draw.In
the second Test he took 3-98 and England lost by 246 runs. In the third test, he
made 16 and took figures of 0-33. In the fourth Test, he made 50 and took figures
of 2-174. In the final Test, he made 146.
In 2017 Ali made
31 in the first ODI against the West Indies. England won the match by 45
ruins. He took figures n 1-44 against West Indies. In the same year in the
first Test against South, Africa e scored 2000 runs and took 100 wickets in the
Tests and became the fifth-fastest a player in term matches. He also took a first ten-wicket haul in the Test. He was the first England player after Ian
Botham who scored a Test half Century and take ten wickets in the same match.Ali
played a quieter Test series against West Indies in which he scored ok 5
wickets in the three-match series of the ODI series. He scored unbeaten 45 off
25 deliveries in the fourth match of the ODI. In 2017-18 Ashes series, he played
in all 5 Tests. He was selected for 2019 Cricket World Cup in April 2019.
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