Mohammed Shami | Matches, Age, Biography, ODI career, Birthday

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Mohammed Shami’s Biography

Mohammed Shami Ahmed a cricket player for India birthdate is on September 3rd 1990. Mohammed Shami's birthplace is Delhi. He participates in all forms of the game as a bowler for the Indian national cricket team. He competes for Bengal at home and Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League.

He is a right-arm fast bowler who uses swing especially reverse swing to move the ball in both directions when he bowls the ball off the seam. Shami made his international debut in a One Day International (ODI) against Pakistan in January 2013 by bowling four debut overs. He took a five-wicket haul in his Test debut against the West Indies in November 2013. He achieved 100 ODI wickets in the fastest time of any Indian bowler.

He became the second Indian bowler to record a hat-trick in a World Cup game during the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Shami now holds the second-highest contract grade from the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) an A-grade central contract as of 2022. Shami was taken to Badruddin Siddique a cricket coach in Moradabad a town 22 kilometers (14 miles) away from his family when he was 15 years old.

The coach saw he was not an average boy when he watched him bowl for the first time at the age of 15. I therefore chose to train him. Due to the lack of club cricket in this country I spent a year preparing him for the UP trials. He was diligent reliable and cooperative. He did not miss a single day of training. He bowled well during the under-19 trials but politics prevented him from being selected. When they asked me to bring him the following year I declined since I didn't want Shami to miss a single year. I so suggested that they move him to Kolkata.

Mohammed Shami’s Family

Mohammed Shami’s father is Tousif Ali. His father is a farmer and also earned a spare part shop. Mohammed Shami's brother's name is Mohammed Hasib. He has three brothers one sister and a total of four siblings. He wed Hasin Jahan on June 6 2014 and the union produced a daughter they called Aaira Shami.

Throughout his stay at Moradabad Shami put a lot of effort into perfecting his technique. After games he would ask for the used balls so he could learn how to reverse swing the older ball a talent that would be crucial to his success later in his career. Although he was not chosen for the Uttar Pradesh under-19 team Badruddin sent him to Kolkata later that year to improve his chances of being chosen for a state team. Debabrata Das a former assistant secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal was referred to Shami after he had played for the Dalhousie Athletic Club. 

Debabrata Das was delighted with Shami's bowling and urged him to join his club the Town Club. Shami who was homeless in Kolkata was taken in by Das to live with him. Shami was chosen for the Bengal under-22 team by Bengal selector Sambaran Banerjee after bowling well for Town Club. Banerjee was impressed with Shami's performance.

Shami has never desired money. The sound that produces from striking the stumps was his target. Most of his wickets have been bowled ever since I first saw him. On or just outside off stump he bowls with an upright seam that causes the ball to cut back in.

Shami later joined one of Bengal's top teams Mohun Bagan Cricket Club to get selected for the complete national team. In the Eden Gardens nets he bowled to former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly who later recommended him to the state selectors. Shortly thereafter Shami was chosen for the Bengal team to compete in the 2010–11 Ranji Trophy.

Mohammed Shami’s Marriage

After getting married in April 2014 Hasin Jahan has made numerous accusations against Shami ranging from him having extramarital affairs with numerous other women to serious allegations of sexual assault. After getting married to Saifuddin in 2010 who was reportedly her childhood sweetheart since 2002 this was Jahan's second marriage. But the marriage couldn't last much longer and in 2012 they split up. She only met Shami during this time and the two began dating and falling in love before getting married. However given the claims they are continuing to live. 

When Hasin Jahan shared a photo of their daughter on Instagram on Sunday the long-running arguments between the Team India pacer Mohammed Shami and his wife took a new turn. Jahan who has previously leveled numerous accusations against the speedster that has yet to be verified posted a photo of their daughter's birthday on social media with the caption Aaira Jahan.

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It's interesting to note that she used her name instead of her daughter's father Shami's while writing her name. Jahan has been in the news frequently since she first made the claims against him in 2017 and the BCCI once put Shami's contract on hold when she accused him of domestic violence. Later evidence disproved the accusations.

The post implied that the couple's relationship would soon be in its latter stages. Even though they haven't yet divorced Hasin Jahan has been living apart from Shami and with her daughter. The lawsuit is still continuing in court since numerous different aspects of their private life were made public in front of the nation's inhabitants during primetime.

 A few days following the accusations Mohammed Shami issued a statement in which he claimed to be a law-abiding citizen who would do whatever it took to protect his family's future and himself. The batsman has also insisted that cricket is his major priority and that he won't let the situation influence how well he plays on the field.

Mohammed Shami’s Matches and Career

Domestic Career

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Shami made his senior debut for Bengal in a Twenty20 game in October 2010 at Eden Gardens taking four wickets. The following month he played his first game of first-class cricket against Assam. His bowling in February 2012 when he grabbed eight wickets in the match and was praised for being excellent regularly getting bounce and zip from just short of a good length helped East Zone win their maiden Duleep Trophy championship. He impressed with his bowling on pitches thought to be unfavorable to fast bowlers earning him a spot-on India A's tour of the West Indies.

Shami surprised India A coach Lalchand Rajput with his strength and consistency when bowling as well as with his batting earning the title of the surprise package of the tour. Even though he only participated in two of the six matches on the tour he was one of just two fast bowlers retained for India A's tour of New Zealand later that year. Shami grabbed 11 wickets in a Ranji Trophy match against Madhya Pradesh in November of the 2012–13 season including seven wickets for 79 runs (7/79) in the first innings a return that featured a hat-trick.

Before making hs Test match debut in 2013 he competed in 18 first-class matches and took 71 wickets an average of four wickets per match for a bowling average of 21.25 runs per wicket in the five Ranji Trophy matches he played throughout the season. Shami has played for his country's national team only infrequently since making his international debut in 2013.

After going four months without playing any competitive cricket he participated in a limited-overs tournament in March 2017. Later that year he played in four Ranji Trophy matches—his first in around five years—to improve and maintain his health. To safeguard his fitness for an upcoming Test series the BCCI asked that he be restricted to bowling no more than 15 overs in each innings during Bengal's lone first-class match in 2018.

Indian Premier League: Kolkata Knight Riders

The Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders signed Shami in 2011. Dav Whatmore the head coach of Kolkata had previously worked with the Bengal Cricket Association and had recognized Shami who had participated in Twenty20 matches for Bengal as a player with potential. 

He participated in one match for the team in the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 but despite being predicted to have an effect before the 2012 competition he did not play in the IPL until 2013 when he made three appearances for Kolkata.

Indian Premier League: Delhi Daredevils

As teams could only keep a maximum of five players before the 2014 season Shami was acquired by Delhi Daredevils in the player auction after making his international debut. He participated in 12 of Delhi's 14 games throughout the season taking seven wickets. He was kept on however he missed all of the games the following year due to a knee injury. The next three IPL seasons saw him play sparingly; he made eight appearances for Delhi in 2016 and 2017 but just four in 2018 when he was once more limited by a knee ailment.

Indian Premier League: Kings XI Punjab

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2019 saw Kings XI Punjab pay 4.8 crores to acquire Shami. He was the team's leading wicket-taker after getting back in shape taking 19 wickets and recording his maiden three-wicket haul in the IPL with 3/21 against the Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium. He matched this feat the next season taking 20 wickets for the best return of his career. He only gave up five runs in a super over against Mumbai Indians during the season forcing Punjab to win the game in a second super over. A single-digit score was successfully defended in a super over for the first time in IPL history and Shami received accolades for his accurate yorker bowling under pressure. Shami finished as Punjab's top wicket-taker for the third consecutive season and as the competition's fifth-highest wicket-taker in 2021 after taking 19 wickets in 14 matches. He finished the campaign as Punjab's fourth bowler with 50 wickets in the team's history.

Indian Premier League: Gujarat Titans

As clubs could only keep a maximum of four players before the 2022 IPL auction Shami was released by Punjab and was purchased by the Gujarat Titans a newly founded franchise for 6.25 crores from the marquee group of cricketers in the auction.

International Cricket: Test Career

At Eden Gardens in Kolkata Shami made his Test debut against the West Indies in November 2013. In the first innings of the Test match he captured Kieran Powell his first Test wicket ending with figures of 17-2-71-4. His pitching line in the second inning was 13.1-0-47-5. The most by an Indian bowler on debut surpassing Munaf Patel's 7 wickets for 97 runs at Mohali in 2006 he had a fairytale debut claiming 9 wickets for 118 runs.

He took 6 and 10 wickets in Test matches against South Africa and New Zealand respectively.  In the first Test at Trent Bridge during India's 2014 tour of England Shami shared a 111-run partnership for the 10th wicket with Bhuvneshwar Kumar scoring his first half-century in the process and helped India post 457 in the first innings. Shami took 5 wickets in 3 games during that tour.

He participated in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia in 2014–15 with a 19-person team playing in three matches and taking 15 wickets at an average of 35.80. Shami recorded his quickest delivery to date at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the third game of the series clocking in at 153.2 km/h (95.2 mph). Following the series he completed the feat in 29 Tests joining the group of 20 Indian bowlers with 100 Test wickets.

2019–21 ICC World Test Championship

Shami collected nine wickets in the two-match test series between India and West Indies in the 2019 ICC World Test Championship. In the corresponding series against South Africa (2019) and New Zealand (2020) he grabbed thirteen and five wickets respectively. In the second match of the 2019–20 Bangladesh Tour of India he was selected for the playing XI of the first international pink ball Test match held in India at Eden Gardens where he claimed two wickets. He also rose to the seventh spot in the ICC Men's Player Rankings on the tour after taking seven wickets in the opening game his 790 rating points ranking third among Indian fast bowlers behind only Kapil Dev (877) and Jaspreet Bumrah (832).

Shami fractured his arm while batting against Pat Cummins in the second innings of the first Test during the 2020–21 Border–Gavaskar Trophy. He was ruled out of the rest of the series after retiring hurt while at bat.

With 40 total wickets Shami and Jofra Archer were the tournament's joint 10th-highest wicket-takers. In terms of wickets taken he was second only to Ravichandran Ashwin among Indian pacers and all Indian bowlers.

He also took four wickets all in the first innings in the Test Championship final against New Zealand at Southampton's Rose Bowl.

Mohammed Shami's ODI Career

In place of Bengali teammate Ashok Dinda Shami was chosen for India's ODI series against Pakistan as a result of his performances in domestic games. Shami made his debut in the third ODI of the series in Delhi on January 6 2013 and he recorded figures of 1/23 from 9 overs in a low-scoring match that India won by 10 runs. He was chosen for India's team to play the touring Australians in October 2013. He played in all of the subsequent matches collecting seven wickets including two three-wicket hauls to finish as the fourth-highest wicket-taker of the series after being left out of the side for the first three ODI matches.

Shami had an average of 28.72 while taking 11 wickets in ODIs during India's 2014 tour of New Zealand. In 29 innings Shami took 50 ODI wickets against Afghanistan on March 5 2014 becoming the second-fastest Indian to accomplish the mark. The match was part of the 2014 Asia Cup. His final tournament stats were 9 wickets at 23.59. India won the ODI series with a score of 3-1 with 8 wickets taken for 24.16 after losing the Test series against England by a score of 3-1.

In October 2014 Shami defeated the West Indies with 10 wickets at 17.40. He recorded his best bowling statistic in ODIs in the second game of the series taking 4 wickets for 36 runs in 9.3 overs. He was a member of the 15-man team for the five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) against Sri Lanka in November 2014 but owing to a toe injury he sustained during the West Indies series Dhawal Kulkarni took his spot. He was included in the World ODI XI by the ICC as a result of his 2014 performances.

Mohammed Shami’s Controversies

Controversies between Mohammed Shami and Hasin Jahan

After Hasin Jahan reported Shami to the police on several charges including match-fixing adultery and domestic abuse the BCCI opted to terminate Shami's contract. Jahan accused the cricketer of receiving money from a Pakistani woman but the cricketer refuted all of Jahan's accusations. After Jahan filed a written complaint an FIR was filed at the Jadavpur police station in Kolkata against Shami and his family members under Indian Penal Code sections 498A (cruelty to women by their husbands and relatives) 307 (murder attempt) 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation). The Kolkata Police is looking into the allegations of adultery and domestic abuse.

Jahan claimed in a different press conference that Shami had previously pushed her into a room with his brother to get her to have sex with him. She continued by claiming that if she hadn't gotten hold of the cell phone as evidence against him Shami would have left for UP and divorced her. Jahan added that a businessman from London had introduced her husband to girls.

Mohammed Shami faces vicious online abuse after India's loss to Pakistan

After India's team lost to Pakistan in the cricket T20 World Cup semifinals the sole Muslim player on the team bowler Mohammed Shami received a barrage of online abuse. Following Pakistan's decisive 10-wicket victory over India on Sunday—it is the first against India in any World Cup—violence against Muslims in India was also reported. 

Tensions between the neighbors who have fought three wars since their independence in 1947 are regularly raised by cricket matches between India which has a Hindu majority and Pakistan which is predominantly Muslim. After the loss in Dubai even though India captain Virat Kohli admitted that his team had been outplayed the 31-year-old Shami became the major focus. Shami received hundreds of comments on his Instagram account calling him a traitor who ought to be kicked off the Indian squad.

However a lot of supporters and politicians also asked people to back him urging Indian athletes to reject the hate speech just as they had done by kneeling in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

According to Sachin Tendulkar's tweet When we support Team India we support every person who represents Team India. Mohammed Shami is a dedicated bowler of the highest caliber. Like many athletes he occasionally had bad days. I support Team India and Shami.

Former Kashmiri chief minister Omar Abdullah wrote on Twitter Team India your BLM knee-taking counts for nothing if you can't stand up for your colleague who is being bullied and trolled on social media. After the well-known victory people fired off celebratory gunshots in Islamabad and Karachi Pakistan while thousands of others lit off firecrackers in Muslim-majority Kashmir India where forces are engaged in an insurgency. Former India Test cricketer Gautam Gambhir now an MP for the dominant Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party called the celebration of Pakistan's victory shameful.

 In Punjab state students from Kashmir said they were beaten up.Online trolls started spewing vulgar and offensive remarks about the loss. Mohammed Shami a player who is 31 years old was the one who suffered the most. On his Instagram profile hateful blatantly Islamophobic remarks were posted calling him a traitor who might board the next airline to Pakistan.

Mohammed Shami’s Net worth

India's cricket team has a fantastic player named Shami and people are very interested in learning more about him. They are constantly interested in Mohammed Shami's earnings salaries and other financial details. I'll quench your thirst by letting you know that Shami has a net worth of $6 million or 45 crore Indian rupees. 

One of Team India's best fast bowlers right now is Mohammed Shami. In India where cricket is regarded as a religion every cricketer who competes for his nation has a devoted following. Mohammed Shami is adored by the public because of his exceptional bowling ability and numerous match-winning efforts in India. Mohammed Shami's projected net worth is $6 million or 45 crore Indian rupees as I previously stated. He primarily makes this enormous sum of money playing cricket. Along with endorsing numerous businesses he also makes money from sponsors outside of cricket. Because of the great value of his brand he receives one lump sum payment from numerous businesses and brands.

Mohammed Shami participates in both cricket for India and the Gujarat Titans of the IPL. Shami participates in all three cricket formats. He is bound by the BCCI's A category central contract. 

He receives 15 lakh INR as the match money when he competes for India in a test match. In a similar vein he receives 6 lakh INR and 3 lakh INR respectively for each ODI and T20I match he plays for India. Shami promotes companies like Nike and BLit spools. Due to his intense emphasis on his sport he does not promote many products. Mohammed Shami's exceptional play with the ball in the air has been a benefit for Team India. He has bowled first in several games and contributed heavily to his team's wicket total.

Mohammed Shami’s Awards

• Shami took nine wickets in his debut Test match in 2013 the most by an Indian fast bowler on debut. 
• On 5 March 2014 he became the second-fastest Indian bowler to take 50 ODI wickets. 
• In January 2019 Shami became the fastest Indian bowler to take 100 ODI wickets. 
• In June 2019 he became the second Indian to take a hat-trick in a World Cup match. 
• Highest wicket-taker in ODIs in 2019. 
• In September 2021 Shami became the fourth bowler to have taken 50 wickets for Punjab Kings. 
• In December 2021 he became the third fastest Indian pacer with the least number of deliveries to take 200 Test wickets. 
• As of January 2022 Shami has the 10th career-best strike rate in One Day Internationals. 
• He holds the record for the most consecutive four wickets in an innings in One Day Internationals.

7 Interesting Facts about Mohammed Shami

• Mohammed Shami was not selected for the Uttar Pradesh U19 team despite putting in a lot of training and effort. This was because of the politics surrounding the selection process.
• Mohammed Shami was selected for the Bengal Ranji team in 2010; it was only a matter of time. He recorded three wickets in his maiden match against Assam.
• During India’s clash against Afghanistan in Asia Cup 2014 Mohammad Shami became the third fastest Indian bowler to 50 ODI wickets.
• At Nottingham during the 2014 English summer Mohammad Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar added 111 runs for the 10th wicket. This was India's second-highest 10-wicket partnership in Test matches. In the innings he scored 51 points.
• In his early years Shami made his debut as Shami Ahmed. However he announced that his name was Mohammad Shami a few days before making his Test debut against the West Indies. He's continued to perform using the same moniker since then.
• India's test rating was 8 when he began serving as captain and it was 2 when he finished.
• On his debut in a Test he recorded a century. He became just the third batsman in history to reach a century on his first outing at Lord's.

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