At only 16, Khurram Manzoor made an attacking 73 on first-class debut against Peshawar. He drifted off the scene for a couple of years, but came back strongly for Karachi Whites in the 2004-05 season, scoring close to 500 runs with two hundreds. That sparked his push to the fringes of the national squad, where Pakistan struggled constantly to find a stable opening pair.
An aggressive opener with a stance not too dissimilar to Ijaz Ahmed's - backside jutting out and legs planted wide apart - Manzoor came into national reckoning finally after scoring over 1,000 runs at 53.9 in the first half of the 2007-08 season. He played for Pakistan A against Australia A, before being drafted into Pakistan's squad for the final ODI against Zimbabwe in January 2008. He duly made his international debut in Sheikhupura, marking it with an impressive fifty.
