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'Very Australian' Khawaja - ketchim - 12-13-2016
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!
Re: 'Very Australian' Khawaja - ketchim - 12-13-2016
"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'."
Re: 'Very Australian' Khawaja - ketchim - 12-13-2016
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."
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-pakistan-2016-17/content/story/1072265.html
Re: 'Very Australian' Khawaja - ketchim - 12-13-2016
Shabash, Usman ::LOL::
Re: 'Very Australian' Khawaja - ketchim - 12-15-2016
darn .....how many runs he made :-[