Usman Khawaja
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Usman Tariq Khawaja (Urdu: عثمان خواجہ; born 18 December 1986) is an Australian international cricketer who represents the Australia national cricket team in Test cricket, captains the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League and plays for Queensland at domestic level. Khawaja made his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in 2008 and played his first international match for Australia in January 2011. He played for the Sydney Thunder from 2011-2022, with whom he won the 2015–16 Big Bash League season, winning man of the match in the final, top scoring with 70 runs. He has played county cricket in the United Kingdom and briefly played in both the Indian Premier League and Pakistan Super League Twenty20 tournaments. Khawaja captained Queensland in first class cricket and list-a cricket from 2015-2024, captaining them to the 2020-21 Sheffield Shield title, batting No.4. Khawaja opened the batting and scored a hundred, winning man of the match for the Queensland team that won the 2013–14 Ryobi One-Day Cup final. Khawaja played ODI cricket sporadically from 2013-2019 and only played T20I cricket for one season in 2016. He played in both the 2016 T20 World Cup and the 2019 Cricket World Cup. A left-handed batter, Khawaja has spent the majority of his international career batting at No.3 or opening the batting. Khawaja was a member of the Australian team that won the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. He was the second-highest scoring batsman in the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship with 1,621 runs, the highest by an Australian batsman. In 2023, he won the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year Award.