5 Pakistani cricketers who faded away after impressive starts

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#3 Yasir Hameed

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Yasir Hameed

Yasir Hameed’s international batting career is a perfect example of a boom and bust story. He scored two hundreds in his first two Test innings but in the next 54 innings, he failed to notch up a triple figure score.

Hameed made an impressive Test debut against Bangladesh in 2003 by scoring 170 and 105 runs in two innings. But later on, a series of below par performances pushed him out of the team. With big half-centuries against New Zealand and India in 2004, he made a statement but his inconsistency and emergence of other opening batsmen brought an end to his international career.

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His impressive performances in domestic cricket offered him plenty of chances in Test cricket but his failure to convert starts into big scores and his lazy elegance cost him his place in the side.

The right-hand batsman made his last appearance in Test cricket in 2010 against England and since then has remained a regular face in domestic cricket.

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