Aamir Sohail is a former Pakistani opener and a left hand orthodox spinner. He debut against Sri Lanka in 1990 and enjoyed a successful international career. He played 47 test matches and scores runs at an average of 35.28 and 156 One Day Internationals and scored runs at an average of 31.86. He played an important role as an opener in the 1992 World Cup victory of Pakistan which was held at Australia and New Zealand.
He was a very aggressive opening batsman that has seen on many occasions in International cricket. One of the most famous and controversial moment in his international was his performance in the quarter final of ICC World cup 1996. In quarter final India score 287 in 50 over’s. Pakistani openers given the good start but middle and lower middle order did not avail that and Pakistan lost the match and thus was out of the World cup. In that match after hitting a boundary to Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad both player exchange few words because of that exchange of word he tries to hit next ball to a boundary which was not needed at that stage of the match and was clean bowled by Prasad. His wicket provides the opening to Indian bowlers and starting point for the downfall of Pakistani inning.
After hitting the boundary shot Aamir Sohail also pointed out his finger to Venkatesh Prasad.
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