Mohammad Imran Tahir is a Pakistani-born South African cricketer. He is a spin bowler who predominantly bowls googlies and a right-handed batsman. Tahir currently plays for South Africa in Twenty20 International matches. In March 2019, he announced that he would quit ODI cricket following the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Mohammad Imran Tahir is a Pakistani-born South African cricketer. He is a spin bowler who predominantly bowls googlies and a right-handed batsman. Tahir currently plays for South Africa in Twenty20 International matches. On 15 June 2016, Tahir became the first South African bowler to take seven wickets in an ODI, and also the fastest South African to reach 100 ODI wickets. In March 2019, he announced that he would quit ODI cricket following the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He represented his eighth English county club, when he joined Surrey in 2019, thus setting a new record. He holds the record for representing highest number of teams in the world. He has had short spells with Yorkshire and Middlesex in county cricket as well as playing for Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship. On 8 January Tahir was called up to the South Africa squad in their Test series against England although he was then withdrawn one day later after Cricket South Africa revealed that he was not eligible to play.
In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super20 tournament. He was selected to play for the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants’ team in the inaugural editions of the Amsterdam Euro T20 tournament in September 2019. In July 2020, he has been named for the Caribbean Warriors squad for the Amazon Warriors Premier League. He will also play in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad in the Caribbean Premier League in July 2020. He has represented Pakistan Under-19 cricket team’s and Pakistan A, but he failed to win full international honours for Pakistan. He also played for Hampshire in the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy winning squad, taking 250 from 10 overs in the final against Sussex. He made his career high score of 77 not out in a County Championship match against Somerset on 28 August 2009.
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