Wajahatullah Wasti
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Wajahatullah Wasti (born November 11, 1974 in Peshawar
) is a Pakistan
i cricket
er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.
He played in six Test matches
between February 1999 and May 2000, but soon found himself out of the side after much criticism on his performance. His best ODI performance was a classy, stroke-filled 84 against New Zealand
in the 1999 Cricket World Cup
semifinal, which Pakistan won by nine wickets. Wasti has also tried his hand at List A cricket.
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
) is a Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.
He played in six Test matches
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
between February 1999 and May 2000, but soon found himself out of the side after much criticism on his performance. His best ODI performance was a classy, stroke-filled 84 against New Zealand
New Zealand cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
in the 1999 Cricket World Cup
1999 Cricket World Cup
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semifinal, which Pakistan won by nine wickets. Wasti has also tried his hand at List A cricket.