21 Facts About Rashid Latif

Rashid Latif served as the captain of the Pakistan team in 2003, leading the country in 6 Test and 25 one-day matches.

Rashid Latif earned a BSc in computer systems engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology with Saeed Anwar, where he joined APMSO.

Rashid Latif has not participated in domestic first-class cricket since 2005.

Rashid Latif started playing for the Pakistan national cricket team in 1992 after the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

Rashid Latif impressed the national selectors by scoring 50 runs in his Test debut, however it did not cement his place in the national squad as throughout his career he had to compete with another Pakistani wicket-keeper, Moin Khan.

Rashid Latif returned to the Pakistan team and became the captain of the National side in 1998.

Rashid Latif remained out of the national squad until 2001, when after a string of poor performances, the Pakistan team replaced Moin Khan.

Rashid Latif was involved with uniting the players through his captaincy in both on and off the cricket field.

Rashid Latif claimed a catch against Bangladesh batsman Alok Kapali in Multan in 2003.

However, replays showed clearly that the catch was dropped and Rashid Latif deliberately claimed a dropped catch.

Rashid Latif later acknowledged that he knowingly and wrongfully claimed that catch.

Rashid Latif was dropped from the squad and never got back in the Pakistan test squad after this incident.

In July 2010, Rashid Latif was appointed as the batting coach of the Afghanistan national cricket team.

Rashid Latif stated that the Afghan players were keen to learn from him.

Rashid Latif further added that he liked the challenge of coaching the team and helping at grass-roots level of Afghan cricket; in July 2010 he talked about having a Pakistan-Afghanistan cricket series in late 2010 to help Pakistan return to staging international cricket.

However just after that Rashid Latif announced his resignation citing consistent interference caused by the board.

The finest moment of Rashid Latif's coaching career came at the 2010 Asian Games when Afghanistan upset the cricket super-power Pakistan in the semi-final as Afghanistan sealed a comfortable 22-run victory and set up a final tie with Bangladesh.

Rashid Latif stated that Afghanistan likes to play aggressive cricket and that the players are mentally very tough and hate to lose.

In 2010, Rashid Latif responded to the spot-fixing allegations against the Pakistan team by saying that ICC needs to re-design its laws and rules to root out the match-fixing and spot-fixing problem.

Rashid Latif stated that he believed that a broad-cast delay of 30 seconds would help curb fixing.

Rashid Latif is currently one of the members of the advisory board as well as director of PSL's franchise Karachi Kings.