Imran Tahir
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Mohammad Imran Tahir (born 27 March 1979) is a South African cricketer born in Pakistan.
Tahir, a spin bowler who predominantly bowls googlies and a right-handed batsman, plays for South Africa in T20Is, while also representing the Dolphins, Multan Sultans in the Pakistan Super League, Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Indian Premier League, Chennai Super Kings, and Surrey in the Vitality t20 Blast.
Tahir became the first South African bowler to take seven wickets in an ODI and also the fastest South African bowler to reach 100 ODI wickets on February 17th.
He made the most economical figures by a South African spinner in an ODI on March 4, 2017, with 2 wickets for 14 runs from 10 overs.
In March 2019, he declared that he would abandon ODI cricket after the 2019 Cricket World Cup, his eighth county team. He played for Surrey in 2019 and set a new record. After every wicket he takes, he is well-known for his running marathon.
Personal life
Imran Tahir was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and learned the game as a youth while growing up there. He started working at the age of 16 as a retail salesman at Lahore's Pace Shopping Mall on a meager salary to help his family. His fortunes changed when he was chosen during trials to represent the Pakistani U-19 cricket team, later progressing to the Pakistan A team on several tours. However, he was unable to make the change to the next stage.
He started playing county cricket in England, but didn't stay long. He then moved to South Africa, where there was always a shortage of quality spinners. He played domestic cricket for five years and lived "hand-to-mouth" in South Africa for the first two years.
Domestic and T20 career
Tahir has had short stints with Yorkshire and Middlesex in county cricket as well as playing for Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Cricket Championships, as well as his first-class debut in Pakistan.
Although Tahir has represented both Pakistan's Under-19 cricket team and Pakistan A, he has yet to win full international recognition for Pakistan. Tahir, a 26-year-old boy, became a resident of South Africa in 2005. He is married to Sumaya Dildar, a South African woman, and has played for South Africa since being eligible to play for them after meeting their four-year residency requirement in April 2009. In the final against Sussex, Tahir was a member of Hampshire's 2009 Friends Provident Trophy winning team, winning by 2/50 from ten overs. In a County Championship match against Somerset on August 28, Tahir set a career high score of 77 not out.
Hampshire has signed Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis, replacing Tahir for the 2010 season. Tahir appeared for Warwickshire throughout the 2010 season, before being called back to Hampshire in 2014.
When the Titans took on the Lions, Tahir made his 100th appearance in the 2009/2010 SuperSport Series. Tahir was called up to the South African team for the Test series against England on January 8, but he was later released that he was not allowed to play, despite Cricket South Africa's announcement that he was not eligible to play.
Tahir went from the Titans to the Dolphins at the 2009/10 season. This was due to a lack of first-class cricket with the club, who preferred to play 23-year-old leg-spinner Shaun von Berg. "I'm not entirely sure what the differences are between him and the Titans are between him and the Titans," Tahir said, but the Titans would not select him because they'd rather pick the young leggie they have." He holds the world's most popular teams (27) ever. In 2012, he transferred to the Highveld Lions.
In January 2018, the Chennai Super Kings bought him at the 2018 IPL auction. In IPL 2019, he took 26 wickets for the team, winning the Purple Cap.
He was selected in Nelson Mandela Bay Giants' squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament in October 2018.
He was chosen to participate for the Amsterdam Knights in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament in July 2019. The tournament was also postponed the following month. In September 2019, he was selected in the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants squad for the 2019 Mzansi Super League tournament.
He was selected in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League in July 2020.
Tahir became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the inaugural season of The Hundred on August 9, 2021, when playing for Birmingham Phoenix against Welsh Fire. Following the players' draft for the 2021 Sri Lankan Premier League, he was selected to play for the Dambulla Giants in November 2021.
Imran Tahir, the captain of team Bahawalpur in the forthcoming Pakistan Junior Cricket League, will be named on October 30th by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
International career
Tahir was first called up to the South African Test team in 2010 while England was touring, but the selection committee made the mistake that he would not be eligible to play for South Africa until January 2011. He was quickly dropped from the squad, but he recovered quickly after being eligible to play.
Tahir qualified for South Africa on January 1, 2011 and was selected by them for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Despite being part of South Africa's squad to face India before the World Cup, Tahir did not make his debut. This was because "[Tahir] is someone we like to keep fresh, and we don't want to give people the opportunity to see too much of him," Captain Graeme Smith explained.
Imran Tahir made his South African debut against the West Indies in a match against the West Indies on February 24, 2011 at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi. In his first match, he took 4 wickets in ten overs. He took wickets straight away in the five games he played, picking 14 wickets in a matter that mattered immediately.
He made his Test debut against Australia in November 2011 at Cape Town and spent four years as a regular member of the squad. He was not selected for the first Test of the Test series against Pakistan in 2013, but he came back strongly in the second by bagging a five-wicket haul on the first day of the Test match. After one bad Test with the ball against India, Tahir was forced to miss one more, but the game's shorter forms of the game continued to do well. He remained a regular member of the South African side in all forms and played Test matches in spin-friendly conditions.
In a Test match against Australia in November 2012, Tahir bowled 37 overs, with no wickets for 260 runs – the lowest bowling figures in Test match history. He was dropped and replaced by Robin Peterson after the Test. Tahir made a return to Test cricket in October 2013 when he took 5 wickets in an innings for the first time in a Test match, leading South Africa to defeat Pakistan by an innings and 92 runs in the Dubai Test, levelling the series 1-1. In the game, he took 8 wickets.
Tahir recorded his best performances, 4–21, in South Africa's match against the Netherlands on March 27, 2014, and was named Man of the match. Tahir, along with Ahsan Malik from the Netherlands, were the tournament's top wicket takers; both took 12 wickets in the tournament.
South Africa defeated Sri Lanka in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup quarter-final match, with Tahir leading South Africa to their first ever World Cup knockout victory with a Man of the Match effort of 4-26. He was selected in the year's ICC ODI team at the end of 2015.
He debuted in both the ODI and T20I rankings for bowlers in February 2017, and three months later was named T20I Cricketer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's annual awards. In August 2017, he was selected in a World XI team to compete in three Twenty20 International matches against Pakistan in Lahore's 2017 Independence Cup.
He was named in South Africa's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup in April 2019. He was in the tournament's first match against hosts England. Tahir became South Africa's oldest cricketer to participate in a World Cup match at the age of 40 years and 64 days. He bowled the opening of the tournament, making him the first spinner to bowl the first over in a World Cup match. Jonny Bairstow was dismissed for a duck by Tahir in the first wicket of the World Cup. Tahir played in his 100th ODI in South Africa's upcoming match against Bangladesh in the World Cup. Tahir and teammate JP Duminy were forced to leave the game after playing his team's last group stage match against Australia.
Tahir was selected for the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade award in November 2020.