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Bilal Khan

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

Bilal Khan

Born

April 10, 1987, Peshawar

Age

37y 206d

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
ODIs4949251021181015/315/3120.975.0624.8440
T20Is7978169819191104/194/1917.446.7815.4300
FC67642352114/634/6332.003.2858.3100
List A6969346427751365/315/3120.404.8025.4660
T20s104103223726081384/194/1918.896.9916.2300

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODIs4921113093.007341.09001140
T20Is792517286*3.505154.900010120
FC6103852012.1483102.400011230
List A69331277263.6615051.33002470
T20s1043320396*3.006163.930030170

Bilal Khan T20 Stats

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
BPLCC131329639115 3/24 3/2426.067.9219.7000

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
BPLCC134121*0.66540.00000020
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Recent Matches of Bilal Khan

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Oman vs Namibia--3/5024-Jul-2024DundeeODI # 4750
Oman vs Scotland01/3622-Jul-2024DundeeODI # 4749
Oman vs Namibia--2/4018-Jul-2024DundeeODI # 4747
Oman vs Scotland00/2316-Jul-2024DundeeODI # 4746
Oman vs England0*1/3613-Jun-2024North SoundT20I # 2678

Photos of Bilal Khan

Bilal Khan celebrates the wicket of Travis Head
Bilal Khan struck on the second ball of the innings
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