Mohammed Shami plays domestically for Bengal and, in the Indian Premier League, for Gujarat Titans.
65 Facts About Mohammed Shami
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Mohammed Shami is a right-arm fast bowler, who bowls the ball off the seam and using swing, including reverse swing, to move the ball both ways.
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Mohammed Shami has been described as a fine bowler at the end of a limited-overs innings and as "unplayable" at times in all formats.
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Mohammed Shami is the fastest Indian bowler to take 100 ODI wickets.
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Mohammed Shami grew up in the village of Sahaspur in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, one of five children.
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Mohammed Shami's father Tauseef Ali was a farmer who had been a fast bowler in his youth; when Shami was 15 he was taken to Badruddin Siddique, a cricket coach in Moradabad, a town 22 kilometres from his home.
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Mohammed Shami was very co-operative, very regular and very hard working.
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Mohammed Shami worked hard on his technique throughout his time at Moradabad; after matches he would request the used balls so that he could develop the ability to reverse swing the older ball, a skill which would be integral to his success later in his career.
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Mohammed Shami was not selected for the Uttar Pradesh under-19 side, and later in 2005 Badruddin sent him to Kolkata to increase his chances of selection for a state side.
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Das took Mohammed Shami, who had no place to stay in Kolkata, to live with him.
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Mohammed Shami's goal was the stumps, the sound that comes from hitting the stumps.
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Mohammed Shami later joined Mohun Bagan Cricket Club, one of the best sides in Bengal, in order to be considered for selection to the full state side.
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Mohammed Shami took four wickets on his senior debut for Bengal in a Twenty20 match in October 2010.
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Mohammed Shami made his first-class cricket debut the following month against Assam at Eden Gardens, taking three wickets in a high scoring match.
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Mohammed Shami was selected to tour the West Indies with the India A side and "impressed" with his bowling on pitches which were considered to be generally unhelpful to fast bowlers.
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Since making his international debut in 2013, Mohammed Shami has played only occasionally for his state side.
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Mohammed Shami played a limited overs match in March 2017 after not having played any competitive cricket for a period four months, and took part in four Ranji Trophy matches later in 2017, his first for around five years, to develop and maintain his fitness.
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Mohammed Shami was signed by Kolkata Knight Riders, an Indian Premier League franchise, in 2011; Kolkata's head coach Dav Whatmore had worked with the Bengal Cricket Association and had identified Mohammed Shami, who had played Twenty20 matches for Bengal, as a player with potential.
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Mohammed Shami played a single match for the side in the 2011 Champions League Twenty20, but despite being touted as a player likely to make an impact ahead of the 2012 tournament, he did not play in the IPL until 2013, making three appearances for Kolkata during the season.
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Ahead of the 2014 season teams were allowed to retain a maximum of five players, and, following his international debut, Mohammed Shami was signed by Delhi Daredevils in the player auction.
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Mohammed Shami played in 12 of Delhi's 14 matches during the season, taking seven wickets; he was retained but did not play a match the following season after being ruled out with a knee injury.
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Mohammed Shami played sporadically in the IPL during the following three seasons, making eight appearances for Delhi in 2016 and 2017 and just four in 2018 when he was again hampered by a knee injury.
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Mohammed Shami was purchased by Gujarat Titans, a newly formed franchise, for 6.25 crore from the marquee group of players.
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Mohammed Shami took 20 wickets at an economy rate of 8.00 runs per over during the season as Gujarat won the league title in their first season.
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Mohammed Shami set new career best T20 bowling figures the following season, taking his first four-wicket haul in the format against Delhi.
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Mohammed Shami made his Test debut against West Indies in November 2013 in front of his home crowd at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
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Mohammed Shami played Tests against South Africa and New Zealand and picked 6 and 10 wickets respectively.
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Mohammed Shami finished the series with 16 wickets, including six in the fourth Test.
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Mohammed Shami retired hurt while batting and was ruled out of the rest of the series.
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Mohammed Shami was the joint 10th highest wicket taker in the tournament, along with Jofra Archer, with 40 wickets in total.
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Mohammed Shami was the highest wicket taker among the Indian pacers and the second highest of all Indian bowlers, behind only Ravichandran Ashwin.
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Mohammed Shami played in the final of the Test Championship, against New Zealand at The Rose Bowl in Southampton and took 4 wickets, all in the first innings.
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In India's tour of New Zealand in 2014, Mohammed Shami took 11 wickets in ODIs at an average of 28.72.
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On 5 March 2014, during 2014 Asia Cup, against Afghanistan, Mohammed Shami became the second fastest Indian to take 50 ODI wickets, reaching the feat in 29 innings.
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Mohammed Shami ended the tournament with 9 wickets at 23.59.
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Mohammed Shami took 10 wickets at 17.40 against West Indies in October 2014.
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Mohammed Shami was in the 15-man squad for 5 ODIs against Sri Lanka in November 2014, but he was replaced by Dhawal Kulkarni due to a toe injury he suffered during the West Indies series.
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Mohammed Shami was in the 15-man squad named for the 2015 World Cup and was eventually included in the playing XI.
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Mohammed Shami took 4 wickets for 35 runs from his 9 overs in India's first match against Pakistan, helping India win the match.
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Mohammed Shami took a brace against Bangladesh in the quarter final but had a poor game against Australia in the semi-final, which India lost, where he gave away 68 runs off 10 overs without picking a wicket, thus finishing the tournament with 17 wickets at an average of 17.29 and an economy rate of 4.81 as the fourth leading wicket-taker.
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Mohammed Shami returned to the squad for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy after a two-year hiatus due to a shoulder injury.
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In January 2019, during the tour of New Zealand, Mohammed Shami claimed his 100th ODI wicket in first of the five games bowling Martin Guptill out.
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Mohammed Shami became the fastest Indian bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets, reaching the milestone in his 56th match during the first ODI against New Zealand at Napier.
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Mohammed Shami was one of the only three fast bowlers to feature in the squad, the other two being Jasprit Bumrah and the white ball specialist, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
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On 22 June 2019, in the match against Afghanistan, Mohammed Shami took a hat-trick and became the ninth cricketer and the second Indian bowler after Chetan Sharma to claim a hat-trick in a World Cup match.
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Mohammed Shami had the best bowling strike rate of 15.07 and the best average of 13.78 of all the bowlers in the tournament with at least six overs bowled.
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Mohammed Shami played the next two matches, but was then dropped for the rest of the tournament.
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Mohammed Shami was included in the side in 2014 tour of England, following the Test series, in July.
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Mohammed Shami played in the lone match of the series and finished with 3 wickets conceding 38 runs.
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Mohammed Shami returned to the squad for 2016 ICC World Twenty20 after spending more than two years recuperating from the shoulder injury, but due to lack of form and game time, he did not feature in any of the matches of the tournament.
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Mohammed Shami was one of the three fast bowlers in the main squad, the other two being Jasprit Bumrah and the white-ball specialist, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
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Mohammed Shami was the only cricketer from Bengal in the squad.
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Mohammed Shami was initially placed on stand-by for 2022 T20 World Cup, but after Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out of the tournament after sustaining a back injury he was named as Bumrah's replacement.
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Mohammed Shami is a right-arm fast bowler who has the ability to move the ball off the seam and using swing, including reverse swing, to move the ball both ways.
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Mohammed Shami's wicket taking ability and bowling reverse swing make him one of the lethal bowlers of the world and which is why he has been described as 'unplayable' at times regardless of the formats.
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Mohammed Shami's wrist is firmly cocked at the point of delivery and his slightly split fingers come down so straight that the seam invariably comes out bolt upright.
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Mohammed Shami now knows on which surface to pitch it up and on what track to bowl the good length.
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Shami's father and his three brothers all played cricket, with one brother, Mohammed Kaif, making his List A debut for Bengal in 2021.
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In 2020 Mohammed Shami spoke about the impact that injuries and a string of allegations made by his wife had had on his mental health.
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Mohammed Shami spoke of considering suicide on three occasions and credited his family with supporting him through the period.
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Mohammed Shami was charged with offences relating to domestic violence, attempted murder, poisoning and criminal intimidation.
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Mohammed Shami denied all of the allegations, claiming that they were a conspiracy and had been made to distract him from cricket.
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Mohammed Shami's wife claimed that Shami had been involved in match-fixing.
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Mohammed Shami had conceded 43 runs during the match and was India's most expensive bowler.
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Several current and former cricketers, including India's captain Virat Kohli, publicly supported Mohammed Shami following the abuse, with Kohli specifically addressing the Islamophobic nature of the abuse Mohammed Shami had received.