Watch The Ashes 2025\/26 LIVE and ad-break free during play with FOX CRICKET on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n During a shout out to his parents Tariq and Fozia, Khawaja quipped, \u201c88 Test matches Dad, is that enough?\u201d<\/p>\n Khawaja explained the comment to Howard an hour before play began at the SCG on Day 1. <\/p>\n \u201cHe might have wanted 100 knowing Tariq,\u201d Khawaja said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe literally and uprooted our whole lives to come to Australia. We had decent lives in Pakistan. <\/p>\n \u201cWe had decent lives in Pakistan. We had a decent big house, Mum had a leisurely life over there and he left all of that just to give us a better lifestyle over here.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember when Mum being quite upset when moving to Australia and I never understood it when I was young, but now I get it. Her whole life got turned upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n 5TH TEST LIVE: Unthinkable SCG reality as shock XI revealed in Aussie gamble<\/a><\/p>\n TALKING PTS: \u2018Bazball\u2019 fail could spell doom for one man; Oz \u2018threat\u2019 put on notice<\/a><\/p>\n Khawaja said his family struggled initially in Australia but looking back, says he couldn\u2019t be more grateful for what his parents did to help put him in the position to represent his country in 88 Tests and become one of Australia\u2019s most successful batsmen \u2013 a journey he says he \u201cwouldn\u2019t change for the world\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe struggled with coming to Australia at the start. The currency change was hard, Dad couldn\u2019t find a new job, he didn\u2019t have a job when he came here so looking back on the sacrifices he made for us kids was why I said to my Dad is this enough.<\/p>\n \u201cNo Test match would have been enough but my Dad just loves cricket so every time I go out and play I know I\u2019m putting a smile on his face.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been a ride. Even playing one Test was amazing but to do it for 15 odd years and 88 matches, it\u2019s quite surreal. <\/p>\n My journey has been up and down. It\u2019s taken me quite a while to get those 88 matches but I wouldn\u2019t change it for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retiring Aussie batsman Usman Khawaja has credited his parents for the \u201csacrifices\u201d they made in his early years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1724,64,63,689,740,208980,168856,12548,19096,673,677,15299,208981,668,12540,85,670,208979,70541],"class_list":["post-390200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-cricket","tag-cricketing-journey","tag-final-test","tag-fox-cricket","tag-mark-howard","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-pakistan","tag-parents-sacrifices","tag-press-conference","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-tariq","tag-usman-khawaja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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