On 1st January 1989, Saeed Anwar made his O.D.I debut against West Indies at Perth in a World Series game . Saeed Anwar batted at no.3 and could score only 3 runs getting out to the fiery Malcolm Marshall . Saeed Anwar's O.D.I career started on a difficult Down Under Tour and his first three innings, he had scores of 3,15 and 0. Another 8 poor innings from Saeed (excepting the 42* in the home series against India) followed . However on 10th March 1990, a day to remember for Saeed -as he posted his maiden One day International Hundred against Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval in a Benson And Hedges World Series league match . Incidentally Saeed along with Rameez Raza put on 202 runs for the 1st wicket in that match . After this innings, there was no looking back for Saeed Anwar as he scored centuries after centuries and at one stage, Saeed had more number of centuries than his half-centuries !!! In the mid-nineties, Saeed Anwar and Aamir Sohail were a very formidable opening pair .
Saeed Anwar has the honour of playing one of the best One Day Innings ever , scoring a huge 194 against India on 21st May 1997 in the Pepsi Independence Cup league match at Chennai . Saeed Anwar has a special fondness to the Indian Bowling taking 2002 runs (in 50 matches) out of the 8823 runs he scored in 247 O.D.Is . Saeed scoring as many as 4 hundreds and 8 fifties in the 50 matches he played against India .
Overall Saeed Anwar scored 8823 runs in the 247 matches long career and scoring 20 hundreds and 43 fifties . He has a healthy batting average of 39.2 and to his credit has 42 catches as a fielder .
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