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Imran Tahir    

South Africa

Full name Mohammad Imran Tahir

Born March 27, 1979, Lahore, Punjab

Current age 31 years 325 days

Major teams Dolphins, Easterns, Hampshire, Lahore, Middlesex, Pakistan A, Redco Pakistan Ltd, Staffordshire, Sui Gas Corporation of Pakistan, Titans, Warwickshire, Water and Power Development Authority, Yorkshire

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
First-class	128	161	34	1845	77*	14.52			0	3			60	0
List A	96	31	9	304	41*	13.81			0	0			20	0
Twenty20	37	11	4	47	13	6.71	37	127.02	0	0	3	3	9	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
First-class	128		25265	13642	547	8/76		24.93	3.23	46.1		41	9
List A	96		4198	3184	140	5/27	5/27	22.74	4.55	29.9	6	3	0
Twenty20	37	36	822	868	40	3/13	3/13	21.70	6.33	20.5	0	0	0

Career statistics

First-class debut	1996/97
Last First-class	Warriors v Dolphins at Port Elizabeth, Jan 6-9, 2011
List A debut	1997/98
Last List A	Dolphins v Knights at Durban, Dec 3, 2010
Twenty20 debut	Lahore Lions v Karachi Dolphins at Karachi, Feb 24, 2006
Last Twenty20	Warwickshire v Hampshire at Birmingham, Jul 26, 2010

Profile

Imran Tahir is the epitome of a journeyman cricketer. In fact, he has barely stopped moving. Since starting his first-class career in 1996-97 he has racked up at least 10 teams ranging from Lahore to Yorkshire via the Titans in South Africa. He has had stints with three English counties; Middlesex, Yorkshire and Hampshire, who he signed for in 2008. That he has never remained anywhere for very long suggests a cricketer who has failed to live up to his potential, but his first-class record is impressive with a fine average and imposing strike-rate - impressive enough, in fact, to earn him a call-up to the South Africa Test squad in January 2010 during their home series against England.

However, confusion reigned supreme as later the same day the decision was overturned after it became clear Tahir was not yet eligible for South Africa. A few days later Gerald Majola, the CSA boss, admitted it came as a "shock" to see Tahir in the 15-man party and that the incident had caused "much embarrassment." It was confirmed that Tahir was not available for South Africa until December 2010, which rules him out of the tours to India and West Indies when it was originally believed in qualified in April 2009. Tahir continued to pick up loads of wickets in the domestic circuit for Dolphins, and was finally granted South African citizenship by by naturalisation in January 2011. Less than a week later, he was picked for South Africa's squad for the one-dayers against India.