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Full name | Usman Tariq | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | 7 June 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2024-present | Quetta Gladiators (squad no. 7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024 | Deccan Gladiators | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2025 | Trinbago Knight Riders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,9 April 2025 |
Usman Tariq (born 7 June 1995) [1] is a Pakistani cricketer,who is a right-arm off spinner.
In December 2023,Tariq was picked by Quetta Gladiators following the players' draft to play for them in the 2024 Pakistan Super League. [2]
In September 2025,Tariq played for Trinbago Knight Riders in the 2025 Caribbean Premier League. He helped his side to the title and ranked second on the wicket charts with 20 dismissals,trailing Imran Tahir (23) despite playing 10 matches to Tahir’s 12. [3]
Tariq is an off-spinner who has been noted for his Ashwin-like pause in the run-up and carrom-ball variation. [4]
He was cited for a suspect bowling action in both PSL 2024 and 2025,but says his unusual,baseball-style action stems from a natural anatomical condition,he claims he effectively has “two elbows”causing a natural bend,and that medical testing has cleared him. [5] In May 2025,he passed a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) biomechanics lab assessment in Lahore and was cleared to bowl. [6] [7]