{"id":651530,"date":"2026-05-05T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/651530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:20:15","slug":"usman-tariq-pakistan-off-spinner-signs-for-warwickshire-bears-for-t20-blast-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/651530\/","title":{"rendered":"Usman Tariq: Pakistan off-spinner signs for Warwickshire Bears for T20 Blast campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warwickshire Bears have signed Pakistan spinner Usman Tariq for the upcoming T20 Blast campaign.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old has risen to prominence in the last few years following successful campaigns in the Pakistan Super League and Caribbean Premier League in 2025.<\/p>\n

He made his international T20 debut in November that year against South Africa and took a hat-trick in his second appearance against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The off-spinner has gone on to take 18 wickets in nine matches at an economy rate of 6.66 runs per over.<\/p>\n

Tariq, who has only played two first-class games, has taken 89 wickets in 60 games in his T20 career so far.<\/p>\n

The Bears said they “fought off competition from around the world” to sign Tariq, who will also feature at Edgbaston for Birmingham Phoenix in this year’s Hundred.<\/p>\n

“Usman is exactly the type of high-impact player we want to bring into Warwickshire, so we’re delighted to get this deal completed,” Bears performance director James Thomas said., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“His skillset and tactical awareness make him a genuine threat in modern white-ball cricket, but it’s his hunger to compete and continually improve that really stands out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warwickshire Bears have signed Pakistan spinner Usman Tariq for the upcoming T20 Blast campaign. The 30-year-old has risen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-651530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651530","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=651530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}