Usman Khawaja Biography: Usman Tariq Khawaja is an Australian cricketer who was born on December 18, 1986. He plays for both Australia and Queensland. Khawaja played his first first-class cricket game for New South Wales in 2008. In January 2011, he played his first international game for Australia. He has also played county cricket in the UK and had short stints in both the Indian Premier League and the Pakistan Super League.
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History and Background:
Khawaja was born in Islamabad, Pakistan. When he was four, his family moved to New South Wales. When he played his first game for Australia in the 2010–11 Ashes series, he was the first Australian of Pakistani descent to do so. Before he made his Test debut, he finished a bachelor’s degree in aviation at the University of New South Wales. He is trained to fly commercially and with instruments. Before he got his driver’s license, he got his basic pilot’s license. He went to Westfield’s Sports High School to learn.
On December 14, 2016, Usman Khawaja wrote on his Facebook page that he was getting married. Then, on April 6, 2018, he got married to Rachel. Rachel Khawaja (who was born Rachel McLellan) became a Muslim before they got married. Khawaja is a native of both Australia and Pakistan.
Domestic career:
Khawaja is a top-order left-handed batter who was named Player of the Australian Under-19 Championship in 2005. He also played as an opening batsman for Australia at the U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2006. Which was also his first year of eligibility.
In 2008, he played his first game for the New South Wales Blues. In the same year, he hit two straight double centuries for the NSW Second XI, which was something no NSW player had ever done before. On June 22, 2010, Cricket Australia said that Usman Khawaja would be travelling with the Australian team to England for a Two-Test series against Pakistan.
T20 career:
Khawaja got a contract to play for the English county team Derbyshire in 2011. He batted an average of 39.87 in four County Championship games and hit a hundred (135) against Kent. For the 2014 county season, all forms, Lancashire signed Khawaja as an overseas player from Australia. Khawaja got 86 runs in his first game, but Lancashire lost by 27 runs to Durham.
He plays cricket for Brisbane’s Valley District Cricket Club. Khawaja was named captain of the Queensland cricket team in August 2015, taking over from James Hopes. Glamorgan County Cricket Club hired him in April 2018 to play in the Vitality Blast event in England. In April 2021, Islamabad United hired him to play in the 2021 Pakistan Super League games that had to be moved. Khawaja got out of his deal with the Sydney Thunder because of “family reasons” in February 2022.
International career:
Khawaja was chosen to be part of the 17-person Australian team for the Ashes series in 2010–11. Ricky Ponting broke his finger during the third Test, and Khawaja was chosen as a back-up in case Ponting couldn’t get better in time. He was then chosen to play for the Australian cricket team in the fifth Test against England on January 3, 2011, in Sydney. Before the third Test against India in March 2013, Khawaja, James Pattinson, Shane Watson, and Mitchell Johnson were all banned because they had broken the rules. Michael Clarke, the captain, said that the step was taken because Watson had broken the rules so many times that he had to fly home and think about giving up Test cricket.
During the 2015–16 season, Khawaja was in great shape for both Australia and his local T20 team, the Sydney Thunder. Many experts praised his comeback as a batsman since he was dropped from the Australian team in 2013 and came back from an injury in 2015. He also started using tools made by Kookaburra. Khawaja was named to a 26-person preliminary team on July 16, 2020. They would start training for a possible tour to England after the COVID-19 pandemic. He was not on the team that went on the tour. Khawaja returned to international cricket after a long break in January 2022. He played in the 4th Ashes Test at SCG and scored 137 and 101*, both centuries, in the game.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 61 | 107 | 11 | 4508 | 195 | 46.96 | 8950 | 50.37 | 14 | 0 | 21 | 486 | 22 |
| ODI | 40 | 39 | 2 | 1554 | 104 | 42.0 | 1848 | 84.09 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 150 | 13 |
| T20I | 9 | 9 | 0 | 241 | 58 | 26.78 | 182 | 132.42 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 5 |
| IPL | 6 | 6 | 0 | 127 | 30 | 21.17 | 100 | 127.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 61 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 2.67 | 0 | 0 | ||
| ODI | 40 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| T20I | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| IPL | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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