Umar Amin
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Umar Amin is a Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i international cricket
Cricket
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er. Amin made his One Day International debut in the opening match of the 2010 Asia Cup
2010 Asia Cup
The 2010 Asia Cup was the tenth edition of the Asia Cup cricket tournament, which was held in Sri Lanka from 15–24 June 2010. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were taking part in the competition. India defeated Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the final to win a record 5th Asia Cup title...

 against Sri Lanka. Amin made his international debut using the bat of Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar
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He was also named in the squad for Pakistan's two-match Test series against Australia, held in England. He made his Test debut on 13 July 2010 in the opening match of the series
Australian cricket team against Pakistan in England in 2010
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 at Lord's
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Early life and career

He began playing cricket in 2001 when he was in 7th grade. It was his father’s passion and he wanted him to play cricket. He was not initially very keen but eventually got selection for U16 for the first time. After which he developed trust in it and then began to perform well at the U19 stage to get selected for the Pakistan U19 side. After which he was called up for Pakistan A squad. He also got a call up from National Bank of Pakistan and was selected in the NBP team for which Kamran Akmal
Kamran Akmal
Kamran Akmal is a Pakistani cricketer who has played Tests, ODIs and T20Is for Pakistan as a wicket-keeper.- International career :He is a quick-scoring batsman and a wicket-keeper, who has achieved 6 centuries in Test innings...

 was captain.

A couple of years later Pakistan A team which toured Australia as Umar Amin facing international quality bowlers Shaun Tait
Shaun Tait
Shaun William Tait is a professional Australian cricketer, who currently plays only in the Twenty20 format. Tait plays domestic cricket for South Australia and is also a representative for Australia at Twenty20 International level; he has also represented his country in One Day Internationals and...

, Doug Bollinger
Doug Bollinger
Douglas Erwin Bollinger is a professional Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues and international cricket for Australia. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm fast bowler...

, Brett Geeves
Brett Geeves
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 and Jason Krezja

He gived A level exams in May 2010.

International career

Amin's international career started in the 2010 Asia Cup
2010 Asia Cup
The 2010 Asia Cup was the tenth edition of the Asia Cup cricket tournament, which was held in Sri Lanka from 15–24 June 2010. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were taking part in the competition. India defeated Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the final to win a record 5th Asia Cup title...

 when he made his debut against Sri Lanka and scoring 7 runs in his debut match. In the second match against India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 which Pakistan lost he scored 5 runs and in the final match he then scored a fine 22 before being run-out in a bizarre manner. as Amin had punched a delivery to long-off and completed an easy single in the 22nd over with Pakistan coasting at 135 for 1. After grounding his bat, Amin started to walk across the stumps to take up his position at the non-striker's end because the bowler, Mahmudullah, was bowling from round the wicket. While doing so, Amin was out of the crease with his bat was in the air, and the bowler - not facing the batsman, and unaware of Amin's position - perfunctorily whipped off the bails. Shakib Al Hasan, fielding at extra cover, noticed Amin was out of his crease and appealed for a run-out which was then given by the third Umpire

Amin's test career got of to a somewhat slower start. He made his debut against Australia and scored 1 run in his debut innings before scoring 33 in the second innings as pakitan lost by 150 runs

In August 2010, he was accused, along with fast bowler Wahab Riaz, of accepting 10,000 GBP from alleged bookmaker Mazhar Majeed. The incident was secretly filmed.

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