'Very Australian' Khawaja

Twenty-five years ago, Usman Khawaja left Pakistan as a little boy with his family,

set for a new life in Australia.

He has played 20 Test matches in the baggy green, and is about to play

his first against the country of his birth!

"Funnily enough I was waiting downstairs and I needed the change room locker

to be opened for us and I was just waiting and the Queensland Cricket lady

came down," Khawaja said at the Gabba.

"She was like 'Oh, you need the locker rooms open?'

I went 'yes please'

and she started walking to the Pakistani change room.

I was like, 'No, I'm that way, thank you'."

It might be a big moment for his parents, Tariq and Fozia.

"They grew up in Pakistan and were there for a long time," Khawaja said.

"Obviously I was born there, so it's a very close part of me.

It still is a very big part of me... culture is very important, as is religion.

My parents are Australian but they're also very Pakistani."

www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-pakista...t/story/1072265.html

Shabash, Usman  ::LOL::

darn .....how many runs he made  :-[