14 Facts About Khurram Khan

Khurram Khan was born on 21 June 1971 and is a Pakistani-born cricketer who played for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team.

In 2014, Khurram became the oldest player to score an ODI hundred as his unbeaten 132 helped his team to a six-wicket victory over Afghanistan in Dubai.

Khurram Khan is regarded as the best cricketer to play for the United Arab Emirates.

Khurram Khan has been playing for the UAE since 2001 when he turned out for the team at the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada, where he played ten games over the course of the two-week tournament.

Khurram Khan bowled the most for UAE, taking 19 wickets in his 95 overs, at a bowling average of 13.52 - taking joint third-most wickets of the tournament, behind Roland Lefebvre and Soren Vestergaard.

Khurram Khan was named captain for the ICC Six Nations Challenge in March 2004, a qualifier tournament for the ICC Champions Trophy, and though Khurram Khan was leading wicket-taker for the UAE, the team finished fifth on net run rate, coming last after four other teams on points.

Khurram Khan was retained as captain for the 2004 Asia Cup where the UAE took on the Test nations of India and Sri Lanka.

Khurram Khan got one wicket in his first match, with the last ball of a ten-over spell, and took four for 32 in ten overs against Sri Lanka, including the top scorer of the innings Avishka Gunawardene who lofted a catch to the deep for 73.

Khurram Khan was the leading bowler as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 239, but only contributed with eight runs in the chase as UAE were bowled out for 123 and knocked out of the tournament.

Khurram Khan has played four matches at the ICC Intercontinental Cup, three in 2004 and one in 2005, scoring 329 runs with four fifties and taking eight wickets.

Khurram Khan has not been the leading wicket-taker in that tournament, with Ali Asad outperforming him with 35 scalps in five matches.

Khurram Khan was captain at the 2005 ICC Trophy, leading his team to a fifth place play-off where the winner would qualify for the 2007 World Cup.

Three months later, Khurram Khan had to declare himself unavailable for the semi-final of the 2005 Intercontinental Cup, with Arshad Ali captaining the side in his place.

Khurram Khan scored his only ODI century of 132* against Afghanistan.