Naveen-ul-Haq is an Afghan cricketer who was charged with Former India captain Virat Kohli is famous for having an altercation.
Wiki/Biography
Naveen-ul-Haq Murid was born on Thursday, September 23, 1999 in Kabul, Afghanistan (age 23; until 2022). His zodiac sign is Virgo. He was born in Kabul, but had to emigrate to Pakistan due to poor family conditions at the time. He was there for five or six years and didn’t like cricket at the time. He said in an interview that he often watched Indian players on TV when he was young, so he began to like cricket. He used to play tapeball but his parents did not allow him to play cricket. He used to play with his brother, batting and fielding a lot, but disliked bowling. He started playing cricket in 2012 after watching Afghanistan’s inaugural T20 World Cup qualifier against West Indies. When he returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan, he decided to become a professional cricketer and told his father that he wanted to play, but his father did not support him because he wanted him to focus on his studies. Naveen was upset and asked his older brother to convince his father to let him compete. His brother talked to his father and convinced him to let Naveen join the National Cricket Academy. His brother helped him fill out the registration form. When he entered the academy, he found it difficult to play with the ball, so he often found excuses to skip training. Sometimes, he would tell the coaches that he didn’t have the right shoes or that he had an injury, and the coaches put him in training with the teens. After a while, he started to touch the ball, and the coach allowed him to play with senior students.
Naveen Harker at age 15
appearance
Height (approximately): 6′1″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
His father’s name is unknown. He is a doctor. He has an older brother.
Profession
domestic cricket
At the age of 11, he represented the Afghanistan U-16 team in Penang. At the age of 15, he participated in the 2014 ACC Under-19 Premier League and helped the team win. In the Championship, he took 16 wickets for just 6.5 runs per wicket. On 25 September 2016, he made his debut in the Group A match against Bangladesh in Mirpur. In 2017, he won the ACC Under-19 Asian Cup.
Naveen Ul Haq wins ACC Under-19 Asia Cup
He made his debut for Kabul Eagles on 7 March 2018 in Kunar against Boost at the 2018 Ahmed Shah Abdali 4-Day Championship. In September 2018, he was named to the Nangarhar Panthers squad for the inaugural Afghan Super League. In November 2019, he represented the Sylhet Thunder in the Bangladesh Super League in the 2019-20 season. In July 2020, he was named to the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League. In October 2020, he became part of the Kandy Tasker team for the inaugural Sri Lankan Super League. In February 2021, he was selected for the Leicestershire Foxes for the 2021 England T20 Blast Championship. In 2022, he did not play the 2022 season in England. In June 2022, he took his first five wickets in Twenty20 cricket in a T20 Vitality Blast match against Worcestershire Rapids. In July 2022, he will compete in the third Sri Lanka Premier League with Colombo Stars. In December 2022, he was bought by Lucknow Super Giants in the 2023 Indian Premier League auction.
international cricket
In 2016, he was selected in the Afghan squad for the 2016 U-19 Cricket World Cup.
Naveen-ul-Haq and his team after winning the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
In December 2016, he became the captain of the Afghanistan team to participate in the 2016 U-19 Asian Cup. On January 19, 2017, he represented Afghanistan for the first time against Namibia in the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge.
Naveen-ul-Haq and his team after winning the Desert T20 Challenge 2017
In December 2017, he captained Afghanistan in the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his T20 debut against Bangladesh on September 21, 2019 in Chittagong. In August 2019, he became a member of Afghanistan Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the 2019-20 Tri-Nation Series in Bangladesh. In September 2021, he was selected in Afghanistan’s squad for the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
dispute
He was embroiled in controversy on May 1, 2023, when he got into an argument with Virat Kohli during an IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants. Virat also got into an altercation with Amit Mishra during the match. The fight between Kohli and Naveen started in the 17th over of the match when Lucknow was batting. Both looked at each other angrily. In the next video, Kohli showed off his shoes before pointing at Naveen in response. Kohli later got into an argument with Amit Mishra, who asked him to calm down Naveen. The game continued, but there was another incident when players from both sides shook hands after the game. Kohli and Naveen also shook hands but Naveen didn’t leave Kohli’s hand and he was seen saying something to him. Kohli avoided him at first, but later responded to him. Glenn Maxwell stepped in and stopped his fight. After the incident, Kohli got into an altercation while shaking hands with LSG mentor Gautam Gambier. BCCI penalized Kohli, Gambhir and Naveen. Kohli and Gambhir were fined 100% of their match fee after being found guilty of a Level 2 offence, while Naveen-ul-Haq lost 50% of his match fee for a Level 1 offence. Later, Kohli spoke about the incident on his Instagram Story and wrote, “Everything we hear is opinion, not fact. Everything we see is opinion, not fact.” Navin Responded to him and posted a story on Instagram saying “you get what you deserve, that’s the way it should be, that’s how it is.”
Domestic/national team
Facts/Trivia
- He coached under Ian Pont.
- His batting style is right-arm batting and his bowling style is right-arm medium pace.
- In an interview, he said that as a young man he admired and was inspired by Hamid Hassan before taking up cricket and fast bowling.
- Once he went to the Academy, where some trials were going on. He didn’t know that this was the under-16 national team selection. He stood in line with the fast bowlers and bowled three before he was told not to. In an interview, he expanded on this point, saying:
I’m sad because I don’t think they like my bowling. That night, they announced the 50 contestants who came back to participate in the selection competition the next day. I was on that list. I thought I might have only managed one wicket in qualifying but my name was in the Under-16 squad. I don’t know what’s going to happen next or what the team is going to do. “
- In the first game, he bowled in Penang and did not have a good experience. After returning home, he decided not to bowl anymore. He stopped bowling in the academy and played for only one year. Later, he realized that he wanted to become a professional cricketer and had to improve his bowling skills. After two years of practice, he played the same match and took 15 wickets and scored just 69 runs. He was also named the best bowler of the tournament. After performing well in this competition, he asked his family to give him some time to prove himself. He told his family that if he did not succeed as a cricketer, he would go to another country to study or work. He started working very hard and hired a personal trainer and worked out in the gym for four hours a day. He is also used to dieting without any cheat days.
- In a dynamic explosion in 2021, he took 26 wickets in 14 games for Leicestershire with an economy of 8.67 to top the wicket-taking charts.
- In 2022, he received a Golden Fox Cap from Leicestershire County Cricket Club for his “continuing and outstanding service to the club”.
Naveen-ul-Haq wins Golden Fox Cap from Leicestershire Cricket Club
- In January 2023, Naveen announced on Twitter that he would not play for the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League (BBL). The news comes after Cricket Australia announced it would not play a series against Asian teams in March 2023. CA said in an interview that they made the decision because the Taliban restricted women’s rights in the country, but Australia has always been committed to empowering women. Speaking about the decision, he tweeted:
It’s time to say there won’t be any big rave after this until they stop these childish decisions that’s how they do one-off Test ODIs now when a country is going through so much support and the only reason you want to take it is from Their happiness #CA. “
- According to him, he had to alter his bowling in 2015-16 due to back problems and injuries.
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