Aamir Jamal: From taxi driver to a national team
Aamir Jamal is a young Pakistani fast bowler. His story from a taxi driver to the national team is very interesting. Aamir talked about his hard work during this journey.
In the Perth Test between Pakistan and Australia, two young fast bowlers Khurram Shahzad and Aamir Jamal made their debut for the national team.
A video of fast bowler Amir Jamal has been posted on social media by the Pakistan Cricket Board, in which he is talking about his journey with the national team.
Aamir Jamal says that whenever you buy something, you value it more and when you get something without hard work, you don’t value it that way, no matter how much my national team. It was a journey to reach. I learned from him that there are no shortcuts in life, you have to go through a process and when you go through that process, value it as much as you tried.
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The fast bowler says, “I have a very long tenure and the reason I am where I am today is because I never let an opportunity go. I played under-19 for Pakistan from 2014 to 15, followed by I didn’t play any cricket for almost 4 years, I made my first-class debut in 2018 but even that I never got a chance. during this time a person from Australia came to our club and said you work very hard. , I will send you a letter from Australia, you will go there to play cricket, get experience and if you want to be set there, you will see that too.
Continuing his speech, he said, “I also said yes and I thought who does that much for anyone nowadays, but anyway he went to Australia and sent a letter and then we talked to the club and I went to Australia, now I am the first I was playing the season which was going very well, meanwhile I came to know that Pakistan U-23 team was going on a tour, I got permission from the club to come back to Pakistan and left some matches and came back. Grade 2 season was going on here but I was not fed.
He said then I took the car on lease from the bank because I had to run my house and I was the biggest person in the house, now I had to give time to the car, to meet the expenses of the house and cricket. I also had to give time, so my routine became that I used to go online after Fajr prayer then I would drive from 10:30 to 11:00 in the morning and then I would practice bowling from 11:00 to 1:00 in the afternoon. , then would go online again at 3 pm and stay online till 7 pm to complete my rides and then go to the gym for an hour of fitness.
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The fast bowler said that when I came to know that the name came in the team, the feeling of that moment was very good. I was congratulating them but I didn’t know what they were congratulating, then we went to the camp and when we came back from the camp, the team had been announced and It also had my name on it.
Aamir Jamal said: “My love for cricket was right from my school days, I was very good at studies so I didn’t focus on studies because I knew I would cover the syllabus. I played cricket three times during school days too. used to play
He said that as an all-rounder it is not so easy for you because when you are bowling you have to focus on bowling and when you are batting you have to focus on batting and even while fielding you have to focus on bowling. You have to stay in the ground, in terms of workload, the workload of an all-rounder is very high, I have prepared myself accordingly, I give time to batting along with bowling.
Talking about his first-class career, Aamir Jamal said my first match was against Balochistan from Abbottabad, in which I was not able to form my rhythm in the first spell, but then when I came back, I bowled 17 consecutive overs. Hired and dismissed 5 players during that time, our coach was Sami Bhai, he was also making noises. He dismissed 8 players in this match which was the best spell of my career.
