The left-arm quick Usman Shinwari, who featured 34 appearances for Pakistan across formats between 2013 and 2019, has announced his international retirement at the age of 31.
He has played one test, 17 ODIs and 16 T20Is after making his international debut in a T20I against Sri Lanka in Dubai in December 2013. He conceded nine runs without picking up a wicket in his only over.
Usman Shinwari has played four T20Is before making his ODI debut, which also comes against Sri Lanka in Sharjah.
His only test appearance came in December 2019, against Sri Lanka again in Rawalpindi. That was the last time he played for Pakistan.
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His time in international cricket was hampered by a back injury, which flared up often. It was in ODIs that Usman Shinwari was at his bets, picking two five wicket hauls including his second appearance, against Sri Lanka in Sharjah in October 2017, when he returned 5 for 34.
The five wickets came in the space of 21 balls. The other five-wicket haul came in his penultimate ODI, against Sri Lanka in Karachi in September 2019.
Shinwari first caught the attention of the national selectors when he was 19, in 2013, when he crushed Misbah-ul-Haq’s Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited in the departmental T20 Cup final. Seaming and swinging the ball, Shinwari returned 5 for 9 in 3.1 overs.
That led to him being fast-tracked into the T20I side, but he failed to replicate his domestic form in international cricket.
He was last in action in Pakistan’s National T20 cup, where he turned out for Quetta Region, but failed to pick up a wicket in four games.
