Naveen-ul-Haq is an Afghanistan cricketer who is known for his altercation with former Indian captain Virat Kohli in the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants on 1 May 2023.
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Wiki/Biography
Naveen-ul-Haq Murid was born on Thursday, 23 September 1999 (age 23 years; as of 2022) in Kabul, Afghanistan. His zodiac sign is Virgo. He was born in Kabul but he had to go to Pakistan because his family situation was not good at that time. He did his schooling there for five-six years and at that time he was not inclined towards cricket. In an interview, he had said that when he was young, he used to watch Indian players on TV, which made him like cricket. He used to play tape-ball but his parents did not allow him to play cricket. He played with his brother and often did batting and wicketkeeping but did not like bowling. In 2012, he started playing cricket after watching Afghanistan qualify for their first T20 World Cup against the West Indies. When he came back to Afghanistan from Pakistan, he decided to become a professional cricketer and told his father that he wanted to play but his father did not support him as he wanted him to focus on his studies. Naveen became upset and asked his elder brother to convince his father to let him play. His brother spoke to his father and convinced him to let Naveen join the National Cricket Academy. His brother helped him fill the registration form. When he joined the academy, he found it difficult to play with a leather ball, so he would make excuses to skip practice. Sometimes, he would tell his coach that he did not have proper shoes or he was injured after which his coach asked him to practice with the juniors. After some time, he learned to play with a leather ball and his coach allowed him to play with the senior players.
Naveen-ul-Haq at the age of 15
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): 6′ 1″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
His father’s name is not known. He is a doctor. He has an elder brother.
livelihood
domestic cricket
When he was 11 years old, he represented Afghanistan as part of the under-16 team in Penang. At the age of 15, he played in the ACC Under-19 2014 Premier League and his team won. In the tournament he took 16 wickets and conceded only 6.5 runs each. On 25 September 2016, he made his debut in a List A match against Bangladesh in Mirpur. In 2017, they won the ACC Under-19 Youth Asia Cup.
Naveen-ul-Haq receiving the ACC Under-19 Youth Asia Cup
On 7 March 2018, he made his first-class debut for Kabul Eagles against Boost in Kunar in the 2018 Ahmed Shah Abdali 4-Day Tournament. In September 2018, he was selected for the Nangarhar Leopards squad for the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament. In November 2019, he played for Sylhet Thunder in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League. In July 2020, he was named in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League. In October 2020, he became part of the Kandy Tuskers for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League. In February 2021, he was selected for Leicestershire Foxes for the 2021 T20 Blast tournament in England. In 2022, he did not play the 2022 season in England. In June 2022, he took his first five-for in Twenty20 cricket in the T20 Vitality Blast against Worcestershire Rapids. In July 2022, he was part of the Colombo Stars for the third edition of the Lanka Premier League. In December 2022, he was bought by Lucknow Super Giants in the 2023 Indian Premier League auction.
international cricket
In 2016, he was named in Afghanistan’s squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Naveen-ul-Haq with his team after winning the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
In December 2016, he became the captain of the Afghanistan team for the 2016 Under-19 Asia Cup. On 19 January 2017, he made his Twenty20 debut for Afghanistan against Namibia in the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge.
Naveen-ul-Haq with his team after winning the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge
In December 2017, he was the captain of the Afghanistan squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. On 21 September 2019, he made his T20 debut against Bangladesh in Chattogram. In August 2019, he became part of Afghanistan’s Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the 2019–20 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series. In September 2021, he was named in Afghanistan’s squad for the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
Controversy
He was embroiled in controversy after his fight with Virat Kohli in the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants on 1 May 2023. During the match, Virat also had an argument with Amit Mishra. The fight between Kohli and Naveen started in the 17th over of the match when the Lucknow team was batting. Both were staring at each other angrily. In the next clip, Kohli was seen replying to Naveen by showing his shoe and then pointing towards him. Later, Kohli had an argument with Amit Mishra where he was asking him to calm down Naveen. The match continued but after the match another incident happened when the players were shaking hands with each other. Kohli and Naveen also shook hands with each other but Naveen did not leave Kohli’s hand and was seen saying something to him. Kohli avoided him at first but then he also replied to him. Glenn Maxwell came forward and stopped them from fighting. After this incident, when Kohli shook hands with LSG mentor Gautam Gambhir, there was an argument between them. BCCI punished Kohli, Gambhir and Naveen. Kohli and Gambhir were fined 100% of their match fees after being found guilty of a Level 2 offence, while Naveen-ul-Haq lost 50% of his match fee for a Level 1 offence. Later, Kohli spoke about the incident on his Instagram story and wrote, “Whatever we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Naveen replied to him and posted a story on Instagram which read, “You get what you deserve, that’s the way it should be and that’s the way it goes.”
Domestic/State Team
Facts/General Knowledge
- He coached under Ian Pont.
- His batting style is right-handed batsman and his bowling style is right-arm medium fast.
- In an interview, he said that when he was young, he considered Hamid Hasan as his idol and inspired by him, he took up cricket and fast bowling.
- Once he went to the academy and some tests were going on there. He did not know that this was a trial for the Under-16 national team. He stood in the fast bowler’s line and bowled three balls after which he was asked not to bowl any more balls. Talking further about this in an interview, he said,
I was sad because I felt he didn’t like my bowling. That evening he announced 50 players to come back and play the trial match the next day. I was on that list. I think I probably got only one wicket in the trial games, but my name was in the team for Under-16. I didn’t know what was coming next or what the team was going to do.”
- In the first tournament, which he played in Penang, he did not have a good experience and after returning home he decided not to bowl again. He stopped bowling at the academy and continued batting only for a year. Later, he realized that he wanted to play cricket professionally and he had to improve his bowling skills. After two years of practice, he played in the same tournament and took 15 wickets for just 69 runs. He was also chosen bowler of the tournament. After his performance in this tournament, he asked his family for some time to prove himself. He told his family that if he was unsuccessful as a cricketer he would go to another country to study or work. He started working out really hard and hired a personal trainer and worked out in the gym for four hours a day. He also used to diet without any cheat day.
- In 2021, he topped the wicket charts in the Vitality Blast by taking 26 wickets at an economy of 8.67 in 14 matches for Leicestershire.
- In 2022, he received the Gold Fox Cap by Leicestershire County Cricket Club in recognition for “consistent outstanding service to the club”.
Naveen-ul-Haq received the Gold Fox Cap by Leicestershire County Cricket Club
- In January 2023, Naveen announced on Twitter that he would not be participating in the Big Bash League (BBL) for the Sydney Sixers. The announcement came after Cricket Australia announced that it will not play series against Asian teams in March 2023. In an interview, CA said that they took the decision because the Taliban was restricting women’s rights in the country but Australia always worked for women empowerment. Talking about the decision, he wrote in a tweet,
It’s time to say that until they stop these childish decisions, they will not participate in any major party, this is how they participated in the only Test and now in the ODI, when a country has gone through so many is passing, you want to take up the sole cause instead of supporting. Happy to have him #CA.”
- According to him, due to back problems and injuries in 2015-16, he had to change his bowling action.
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