Wahab Riaz – Profile, Stats & Recent Form

Personal details

Born28 Jun 1985

Age41 Years

NationalityPakistan

RoleBowler/Left-arm Fast, Right Handed Batsman

BattingRight Hand Bat

BowlingLeft Arm Fast

Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Career at a glance

Format	M	Runs	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Test	27	306	8.5	42.09	83	3.42
ODI	91	740	14.5	87.16	120	5.7
T20I	36	154	12.83	125.2	34	8.2
T20	348	1700	13.49	129.96	413	7.54
List A	191	1470	16.33	82.67	260	5.39
First-class	136	2675	16.51	0	441	3.3
T10	43	86	10.75	153.57	28	10.46

Debuts

Test England vs Pakistan, The Oval 18 Aug 2010

ODI England vs Pakistan, The Oval 2 Feb 2008

T20I Pakistan vs Bangladesh, Karachi 20 May 2008

T20 Hawks vs P Panthers, Lahore25 May 2005

Family

RelationsZainab Choudhary (Spouse), Haji Shahid Choudhary (Father in Law), Eshal Riaz (Daughter)

Batting

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Test	27	41	5	306	39	8.5	727	42.09	0	32	5	5
ODI	91	66	15	740	54	14.5	849	87.16	3	55	30	29
T20I	36	18	6	154	30	12.83	123	125.2	0	10	7	6
T20	348	203	77	1700	53	13.49	1308	129.96	1	127	74	101
List A	191	129	39	1470	77	16.33	1778	82.67	5	0	0	59
First-class	136	193	31	2675	84	16.51	0	0	10	0	0	41
T10	43	12	4	86	37	10.75	56	153.57	0	4	7	12

Bowling

Format	M	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	5W	10W
Test	27	49	836.2	2864	83	7/134	34.5	3.42	2	0
ODI	91	90	721.1	4117	120	5/46	34.3	5.7	1	0
T20I	36	35	118.2	971	34	3/18	28.55	8.2	0	0
T20	348	344	1238.5	9350	413	5/8	22.63	7.54	3	0
List A	191	0	1486.1	8011	260	5/24	30.81	5.39	5	0
First-class	136	0	3888	12849	441	–	29.13	3.3	16	5
T10	43	36	65	680	28	–	24.29	10.46	0	0

By tournament

Tournament	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Bangladesh Premier League	29	134	23	19.14	148.89	47	6.86
Caribbean Premier League	28	42	26	8.40	80.77	30	11.14
Pakistan Super League	88	359	33	9.97	128.21	113	9.18
ICC Men's T20 World Cup	3	0	0	0.00	0.00	3	–
Lanka Premier League	14	80	27	8.89	109.59	17	8.74
Vitality Blast	12	152	53	19.00	138.18	15	7.28
Abu Dhabi T10	26	19	8	6.33	100.00	24	9.90
National T20 Cup	38	243	42	18.69	147.27	49	7.50
The Hundred Men's	2	0	0	–	–	4	7.50
Asia Cup	2	1	1	1.00	20.00	1	7.85
ICC Champions Trophy	4	19	13	6.33	67.86	3	22.96
ICC Cricket World Cup	20	179	54	16.27	104.68	35	10.31

Against teams

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
New Zealand	7	63	30	21.00	131.25
West Indies	3	31	24	10.33	172.22
England	1	21	21	21.00	161.54
Sri Lanka	2	19	12	19.00	172.73
Australia	3	16	16	8.00	76.19
India	1	4	4	4.00	33.33
Zimbabwe	1	0	0	0.00	–

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
West Indies	7	7	194	27.71	7.46	22.29
England	5	7	132	18.86	13.20	8.57
New Zealand	8	6	218	36.33	9.98	21.83
Zimbabwe	4	5	133	26.60	8.31	19.20
Australia	3	3	83	27.67	11.86	14.00
Sri Lanka	3	3	87	29.00	10.88	16.00
Bangladesh	3	2	77	38.50	7.70	30.00
India	2	1	47	47.00	8.55	33.00

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50
South Africa	13	173	45	13.31	83.17	0
Zimbabwe	5	130	54	32.50	103.17	2
Australia	6	91	45	15.17	85.05	0
West Indies	9	73	19	10.43	73.74	0
Bangladesh	6	71	51	14.20	104.41	1
England	7	71	33	11.83	74.74	0
Ireland	1	47	47	–	134.29	0
New Zealand	7	42	14	14.00	71.19	0
Afghanistan	1	15	15	–	166.67	0
India	5	12	8	2.40	52.17	0
Sri Lanka	5	9	5	3.00	56.25	0

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Zimbabwe	11	21	411	19.57	6.26	18.76
West Indies	16	18	677	37.61	5.74	39.33
South Africa	13	13	580	44.62	7.16	37.38
New Zealand	9	12	489	40.75	5.93	41.25
Sri Lanka	6	11	317	28.82	7.37	23.45
Bangladesh	6	10	203	20.30	5.37	22.70
India	7	10	409	40.90	7.30	33.60
Australia	7	7	309	44.14	10.30	25.71
England	9	7	480	68.57	11.25	36.57
Ireland	2	4	99	24.75	14.14	10.50
Afghanistan	2	4	66	16.50	3.77	26.25

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
England	13	121	39	10.08	43.21
Sri Lanka	7	75	17	10.71	36.59
Australia	7	59	30	9.83	49.58
West Indies	7	35	11	5.83	43.75
New Zealand	4	7	7	3.50	25.93
South Africa	1	5	5	5.00	125.00
Bangladesh	2	4	4	2.00	33.33

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
England	14	25	902	36.08	3.61	60.04
West Indies	10	16	496	31.00	3.33	55.94
Sri Lanka	7	16	406	25.38	5.08	30.00
Australia	7	11	481	43.73	3.79	69.27
Bangladesh	4	7	239	34.14	3.32	61.71
New Zealand	6	6	279	46.50	3.13	89.00
South Africa	1	2	61	30.50	3.39	54.00

Last 10 innings · batting

2vs ATL

6vs HSG

13vs LAW

9vs NYL

0*vs IU

7*vs MS

0vs LQ

8vs IU

10*vs QG

T10 vs ATL8 Oct 2025 · c FA Allen b Sohail Tanvir 2(3) T10 vs HSG7 Oct 2025 · c C Hemraj b Saad Bin Zafar 6(4) T10 vs LAW6 Oct 2025 · runout (A Nadeem) 13(10) T10 vs NYL5 Oct 2025 · b S Humayun 9(6) T20 vs IU16 Mar 2023 · Not out 0*(1) T20 vs MS10 Mar 2023 · Not out 7*(2) T20 vs LQ7 Mar 2023 · c S Billings b S Afridi 0(1) T20 vs LQ26 Feb 2023 · c F Zaman b S Afridi 0(2) T20 vs IU23 Feb 2023 · b Rumman Raees 8(7) T20 vs QG20 Feb 2023 · Not out 10*(12)

Last 10 innings · bowling

1/15vs ATL

0/22vs HSG

0/12vs LAW

1/10vs NYL

0/33vs SA-L

0/21vs WI-L

1/31vs SA-L

0/27vs ENG-L

0/31vs DL

1/22vs IND-L

T10 vs ATL8 Oct 2025 1/15 T10 vs HSG7 Oct 2025 0/22 T10 vs LAW6 Oct 2025 0/12 T10 vs NYL5 Oct 2025 1/10 T20 vs SA-L2 Aug 2025 0/33 T20 vs WI-L26 Jul 2025 0/21 T20 vs SA-L25 Jul 2025 1/31 T20 vs ENG-L18 Jul 2025 0/27 T10 vs DL5 Oct 2024 0/31 T20 vs IND-L13 Jul 2024 1/22

About Wahab Riaz

Wahab Riaz Biography

Wahab Riaz is a Pakistani cricketer who was born on June 28, 1985, in Lahore, Pakistan. He plays as a right arm fast bowler. Riaz is known for his spell against Shane Watson during 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Background

Wahab was seriously engaged with cricket in the year 2000 but made his domestic debut during the 2001-02 season. He was also part of the Pakistan A and Pakistan U19 sides.

Debut

Wahab made his test debut against England during 2010 series and took a fifer in the first innings of that match. After that, he went to South Africa tour and took major wickets of Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith. However, he suffered an injury for which he remained out of the team.

Rise to Glory

Riaz's performance against India in the semi-final match of 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was a major turning point in his career. He took a fifer in that match. Though Pakistan lost that match, Wahab came into the limelight and was selected for the subsequent tour of South Africa.

Low Points

Wahab took wickets in almost all matches he played but his economy rate was an issue. This was the reason that he didn't play for Pakistan on a regular basis. For instance, in 2016, he conceded 110 runs in his quota of 10 overs, which are the second worst figures ever in ODIs.

Club Career

In the 2016 Pakistan Super League, Wahab Riaz was bought by Peshawar Zalmi for $140,000. In 2017 also, he was retained by Peshawar, won the tournament and Riaz ended as the leading wicket taker with 30 wickets in 19 matches.

Records

Wahab’s spell against Shane Watson during the quarter final match of 2015 ICC cricket world cup, was very applauded. Kevin Pietersen described that as the "Best spell of bowling by a foreigner on Aussie soil for years". Brian Lara also tweeted "I want to meet with this Riaz guy".

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