Moin Khan Net Worth, Height, Age, Wife, Biography & More

Muhammad Moin Khan (born September 23, 1971) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer, primarily a wicketkeeper batsman, who remained on the Pakistani national cricket team from 1990 to 2004. He was also the captain of the Pakistani side. He made his international debut against the West Indies at Multan. He took over 100 catches in test cricket. He has scored over 3,000 ODI runs and taken over 200 catches in ODI cricket. He is credited with coining the name of Saqlain Mushtaq's mysterious leg-to-leg shipment as Doosra. It means "the other" in Urdu. In July 2013 he replaced Iqbal Qasim as Chief Selector of the Pakistani cricket team. Moin was appointed head coach of the national team on February 11, 2014.

International career

During his international career, Moin had to compete with another wicket keeper, Rashid Latif. Moin retained wickets in the 1992 World Cricket Championship, which Pakistan won, and the 1999 World Cricket Championship, which Pakistan finished second. Latif retained wickets at the 1996 Cricket World Cup and 2003 Cricket World Cup. During the 1992 World Cricket Championship semifinals against New Zealand, Pakistan took 9 runs for 8 balls before Khan hit a 6 to get 3 runs with 7 balls and then hit a border to help Pakistan clash in the World Cup final to be achieved with England. In the World Cup final, Pakistan scored 249 out of 50 overs, with Khan standing no chance of beating. However, he made three catches in the match, including one from Ian Botham trying a duck against an Inswinger thrown by Wasim Akram.

Domestic career

In 2005, Moin made the first century in Pakistani Twenty20 cricket when he crushed 112 of 59 balls for Karachi Dolphins against Lahore Lions in the ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup. At the end of the season, he did not retire from the cricket final with 200 against Hyderabad, his highest first-class score. In 2007 Moin signed with the unofficial Indian Cricket League and coached the Hyderabad Heroes. In the 2008 edition of the competition, he coached the expansion team, the Lahore Badshahs.

Coaching career

Moin was appointed manager of the team in August 2013. He was named the national team's new head coach on February 11, 2014, replacing Dav Whatmore. He was named Chief Selector of the Pakistani team in 2013. But in 2015, during the 2015 World Cricket Championship, he was dismissed after the team's poor performance during the World Cup.