Bilal Khan

Oman|Bowler
Bilal Khan
INTL CAREER: 2015 - 2024
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Full Name

Bilal Khan

Born

April 10, 1987, Peshawar

Age

36y 344d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Left arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Bowler

After a brief first-class career with Peshawar in Pakistan's domestic cricket in the late 2000s, left-arm swing bowler Bilal Khan turned into the leader of Oman's bowling attack and one of the most successful pace bowlers on the Associate scene in the late 2010s. As of 2022, his ODI bowling average was bettered only by Joel Garner, Rashid Khan and Sandeep Lamichhane among bowlers with at least 50 ODI wickets.

After playing the last of his six Pakistan domestic matches, Bilal took up a job offer in Muscat and began the ICC's four-year qualification process before making his Oman debut late in 2015. The ICC's guidelines at the time said only two players could be in the starting XI who were four-year residents but not yet seven-year residents of an adopted country, and so Bilal struggled to crack the regular Oman starting line-up over the course of 2016, but a breakout performance at the Desert T20 tournament in the UAE in January 2017 turned things around. From then on, he was a catalyst for Oman's rise from Division Five of the World Cricket League all the way up to achieving ODI status in 2019.

Bilal's pace is a couple of notches under express but his sharp inswing can be a handful for Associate batters not used to such skill at those speeds with the new ball. Far more deadly are his spells bowling at the death, which feature a devastating reverse-swinging yorker. Hong Kong found out the hard way in an elimination match at the 2019 T20 World Cup Qualifier in Dubai in a spell that helped Oman clinch a return trip to the T20 World Cup.

Bilal played all 35 matches for Oman in the 2019-2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League Two ODI tournament for Associates and finished as far and away their leading bowler, with 76 wicket-taker including three five-wicket hauls. In a tournament format structured with ODIs often played on back-to-back days, it was a remarkable feat not just of dominance but durability.

Bilal Khan Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ODIs454523461969955/315/3120.725.0324.6440
T20Is676614531568964/194/1916.336.4715.1300
FC67642352114/634/6332.003.2858.3100
List A6565330026261305/315/3120.204.7725.3660
T20s9291199222571244/194/1918.206.7916.0300

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODIs4519113093.756943.47001140
T20Is672012256*3.124456.810010120
FC6103852012.1483102.400011230
List A65311277264.0514652.73002470
T20s922815366*2.765466.660030170
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Recent Matches of Bilal Khan

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Oman vs P.N.G.--1/2908-Mar-2024Al AmeratT20I # 2505
Oman vs P.N.G.--1/1907-Mar-2024Al AmeratT20I # 2504
Oman vs P.N.G.--2/3106-Mar-2024Al AmeratT20I # 2500
Oman vs P.N.G.20/5604-Mar-2024Al AmeratOTHEROD
Oman vs P.N.G.--3/3103-Mar-2024Al AmeratOTHEROD

Photos of Bilal Khan

Bilal Khan is run out
Bilal Khan thanks those who matter after completing his five-for
Bilal Khan trapped Christopher McBride on the third ball of the match
Bilal Khan checks in on Vriitya Aravind
Bilal Khan made the opening breakthrough
Bilal Khan is congratulated after a wicket