Raza Hasan ( ur, ; born 8 July 1992) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer. He bowls

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and can also bowl the

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which turns the other way (into the right hand batsman). He was selected to play for the Pakistani national team in replacement of

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for the tour of England in 2010, along with another spinner,

Saeed Ajmal Saeed Ajmal SI ( Punjabi, ; born 14 October 1977) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all forms of the game. He is a right-arm off-spin bowler who bats right handed. At domestic level in Pakistan he represented Fai ...

. Along with Hasan, another change to the test squad was the addition of veteran

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, who retired earlier in the year. Raza was backed by Ijaz Ahmed at the start of his career. In September 2012, Hasan made his T20 international debut when he played against

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in the first game of the Australia-Pakistan T20 series in the UAE. He got two wickets in the match. He made his

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debut for Pakistan against Australia in the

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on 10 October 2014. In May 2015 Hasan was banned from playing any form of cricket for two years, after testing positive for a prohibited substance. He was the leading wicket-taker for

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in the

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, with 32 dismissals in seven matches. In April 2018, he was named in Federal Areas' squad for the

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