Wahab Riaz (born 28 June 1985) is a Pakistani cricketer. He is left-arm fast bowler and a right-hand batsman .He frequently bowls at the speeds of around 90 miles per hour (140 km/h)and has reached 99 miles per hour (159 km/h)Riaz was chosen the squad for the tri-series in Bangladesh which also included India and in his first match against Bangladesh;he finished with 3 wickets for 22 runs in 7 overs and in the next match although he took two Indian wickets he he conceded 85 runs.
Wahab made his Test debut against England in the third Test of the 2010 series. England batted first and Wahab took 5/63 in the first innings.In Pakistan's first innings he came into bat at number 3 and made 27 runs.
He next played for Pakistan in the Test series against South Africa in October 2010 he participated in 4 ODIs.He was selected to play in the first Test later in the series he took two wickets those of Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla however towards the end of the day he piked up a side strain. He did not bowl the following day.A scan showed that Riaz had picked up in injury which takes 4-5 weeks to recover from and thus he missed the rest of the Test series.
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