Pakistan batter Fawad Alam has called time on his cricket career in Pakistan cricket after 15 long years and is likely to ply this trade in Minor League Cricket T20. He made his international debut for Pakistan in May 2007 and after a break of ten years, he made a comeback and scored two centuries in 2020 before falling out of favour with the team and the veteran was part of the Pakistan World Cup winning squad in 2009.
Apart from a handful of limited-overs matches, he has spent the last decade stuck in domestic cricket. He was surprisingly overlooked from being selected to the Pakistan test cricket team for over a decade despite being one of the leading run-scorer in domestic cricket.
With the limited opportunities and age not being on his side, Fawad Alam has decided to move on from Pakistan Cricket. According to the reports in Cricbuzz, The 37-year-old will join the Pakistan players Sami Aslam, Hammad Azam, Saif Badar, and Mohammad Mohsin who moved bases to the USA to ply their trade in the country.
In July 2009, Fawad became the first Pakistani cricketer to score a Test century on debut away from home, and the tenth to score a century on debut, scoring 168 runs in the second innings of the second Test against Sri Lanka.
In August 2020, Fawad played in the second Test against England, after a gap of 10 years and 258 days since his last Test match appearance and in December 2020, he scored his first Test hundred after more than 11 years, a gap of 4,218 days between the two but was eventually dumped out the team due to his failure against Australia in 2022.
The Left-handed batter also became the fastest Pakistani as well as fastest Asian batsman to reach five Test centuries in terms of innings (22) surpassing the previous record of 24 innings held by India’s Cheteshwar Pujara in International cricket.
Fawad Alam will be playing for Chicago Kingsmen in Minor League Cricket The season is being hosted over 19 venues across the United States from August 4 to October 1. Minor League Cricket is a developmental league on the lines of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in India. The tournament will see over 150 T20 games being played over 15 states in the US.