Raza Hasan: Future spin prospect of Pakistan

Spinners have always been an important part of the bowling line up for every cricket team. Now a days its a must have for every team. A spinner that knows what the heck he's doing is vital. They try to confuse batsmen with their variation and make him do a mistake. Spinner play a vital role in winning games and getting timely breakthroughs.

Pakistan cricket team has been blessed with quite a few legendary spinners in the past such as Abdul Qadir, the guy who revolutionized the googly, Mushtaq Ahmed who is currently the spin bowling coach for England and Saqlain Mushtaq, the inventor of the doosra.

Another emerging player from the spin factory of Pakistan who might be the next spin prospect of Pakistan is the left arm leg-spinner Raza Hasan. Born in Sialkot city of Pakistan, Raza Hasan is an 18 year left arm orthodox spinner. He is very young but he is as clever as a fox, this guy knows what he is doing. He made his First-class debut for Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited and impressed by taking 3 wickets for 24 runs and helped bowl his side to an innings victory. He also impressed against the Zimbabwe U-19 team by taking 9 wickets in the series. This also earned him a call-up for the Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand.

Currently Hasan has played 2 First-class matches , 9 List A matches and has also 5 Twenty20 matches in the domestic circuit. His stats are impressive in every level. Below is the summary of his stats in First-class, List A and Twenty20.

	Matches	Wickets	BBI	Average	Economy	Strike rate
First-class	2	8	3 for 24	16.12	2.73	35.3
List A	9	17	3 for 13	19.05	4.04	28.2
Twenty20	5	6	2 for 27	25.33	7.6	20

For a bowler his age these stats are impressive, now its true that he probably won't get an international call up anytime soon and I think that's good for him since he still doesn't have much experience in the domestic circuit and if you through him right into competitive cricket he is not going to do so well (we've already seen that with Mohammad Irfan). However he definitely looks like one for the future. He is still very young only 18 and he has a lot of people to seek advice from such as Saqlain, Saeed Ajmal (the current spinner in Pakistan team).