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[PICTURES/VIDEOS] Usman Tariq - Mystery spinner with an 'unorthodox' action [Cleared from suspected bowling action in PSL 9, Update on Post#150]

Looked class unlucky not to get a wicket today. Had the best economy amongst all the other bowlers. Needs to play all the remaining games
 
I hardly found any mystery in his bowling because a slight delay before delivering a ball isn't called a mystery at all.
 
I think he tries to overanalyze things a bit , he was thinking Tayyab will advance down the pitch and will hit him over long on or mid wicket hence bowled him short and wide outside off stump and got punished. I think he needs to relax a bit and just stick to the basic for now.
 
I hope we do not expose him in useless bilateral games. Keep him on a lid and unleash during the world cup
 
zarak said:
I hope we do not expose him in useless bilateral games. Keep him on a lid and unleash during the world cup
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This.

However, I highly doubt the pcb is capable of such planning.

Heck, they might not even pick him because shadab can bat and he can't.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
It actually is. Hafeez was warned for pausing in his delivery stride before being officially called for chucking. I think it was in the Champions League in 2014.

Anyway, let's see what the umpires make of this guy and his action
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It’s two different things

Hafeez would pause during a regular bowling motion.

Tariq on the other hand bowls exactly in this motion throughout. There is no intentional pause to deceive batsman
 
The pause is not a problem because its not a deliberate tactic to distract the batsman. He pauses every delivery so its not really distracting. It is up to the batter to time his movements and line his bowling up.
 
He could be a nice trump card in a T20 squad the more he works with a good coaching staff.
 
Is his bowling action suspicious? I think there's a problem with the bending angle, ICC may ban him.

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FearlessRoar said:
Is his bowling action suspicious? I think there's a problem with the bending angle, ICC may ban him.
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I think his arm isn't bending enough to be called suspecious, actually his pause makes it suspecious.
 
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So far, he looked unplayable. Batters are having trouble reading him off the hand and they are trying to read him off the pitch which is not easy so he getting some wickets.

Pause in his actions is not a problem here for him to get banned. It's fine.
 
Asad T said:
The pause is ok, Arshad Khan used to have a similar pause
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Nope Arshad had a very good clean orthodox action. This guy totally stops and then stands and delivers. He can do away with the first part and just stand and deliver and it won't affect his final delivery as he carries no momentum from the steps he takes at the start into his delivery stride. Haven't seen a lot of him so can't comment on his control and variety but imo the action will end up being a disadvantage rather than a strength.
 
BouncerGuy said:
So far, he looked unplayable. Batters are having trouble reading him off the hand and they are trying to read him off the pitch which is not easy so he getting some wickets.
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Because he's new. If you look at the last match's wickets. They both were overseas players trapped in front who had never faced or seen him in real life.

Real test will begin once teams have seen him.
 
BouncerGuy said:
So far, he looked unplayable. Batters are having trouble reading him off the hand and they are trying to read him off the pitch which is not easy so he getting some wickets.

Pause in his actions is not a problem here for him to get banned. It's fine.
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Also he could also be used as a weapon in WT20 where he plays sparingly and not much cricket before. Teams facing him directly in the event for the first time will find it difficult.
 
Pakistan unearth new mystery spinner: Watch him stop in run-up before foxing batsmen with subtle spin

Karachi Kings batter Tim Seifert batting fluently on 21 was undone by a mystery delivery that he could not read by off-break bowler Usman Tariq who would pause during his action before delivering the ball similar to India’s R Ashwin. However, the latter would slip in that delivery occasionally as a variation but Tariq seems to have imbibed the pause into his action and would do every ball.

In addition to Seifert Tariq would also pick James Vince who faced 21 balls for his 37 before getting bamboozled by Tariq’s ball which he tried to work on leg-side and missed and was given out LBW. The mystrey spinner in the match would end up with the figures of 2-16 from his quota of four overs.

Misbah-ul-Haq on reasons why playing Taqir is difficult

“He (Taqir) has a carrom ball and on top of that, he is accurate. The spin is so subtle that it is just enough to beat the bat,” told former Pakistan skipper Misbah on A Sports. “For the right-handers, he is difficult to face,” he adds.

“If you play him like an off-spinner where the ball comes back in which we have tried and seen but all the batters make the same mistake when we think he is delivering the carrom ball. We try to play him in-line we plant our foot to play but him that subtle turn will get to you LBW or bowled.” Misbah explains. “When you are facing your first or second ball as a batter in your innings even if you pick it you will make a mistake some way or the other.”

Speaking of challenges for Tariq Misbah would predict, “In PSL there are international players who have played a lot of world-class spinners which will be a challenge to him also they would do a video analysis on him.

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Cricket Warrior said:
basically he use two deliveries conventional off spin and a carom delivery (more like a leg spin)
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Its not a conventional off spin/break delivery. It's actually a side hand googly, which is a googly/wrongun that comes out side of the hand rather than back of the hand. Adil Rasheed has a similar googly in is arsenal but rarely uses it.

He is more of an Googly/Carrom Ball bowler, you can't call him a leg/wrist spin bowler because he has no leg spinner and you can't call him a off spinner because he doesn't have an off spin delivery (He may have one but I haven't seen him bowl it).

See below for the two deliveries he bowled to James Vince, Ball 6.5 was the carrom ball out of the front of the hand and Ball 6.6 was the side hand googly that got Vince LBW.

Ball 6.5 of Usman Tariq over against Karachi, 16th Match PSL9
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Ball 6.6 of Usman Tariq over against Karachi, 16th Match PSL9
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Seam Specialist said:
Its not a conventional off spin/break delivery. It's actually a side hand googly, which is a googly/wrongun that comes out side of the hand rather than back of the hand. Adil Rasheed has a similar googly in is arsenal but rarely uses it.

He is more of an Googly/Carrom Ball bowler, you can't call him a leg/wrist spin bowler because he has no leg spinner and you can't call him a off spinner because he doesn't have an off spin delivery (He may have one but I haven't seen him bowl it).

See below for the two deliveries he bowled to James Vince, Ball 6.5 was the carrom ball out of the front of the hand and Ball 6.6 was the side hand googly that got Vince LBW.

Ball 6.5 of Usman Tariq over against Karachi, 16th Match PSL9
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Ball 6.6 of Usman Tariq over against Karachi, 16th Match PSL9
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Going by those pictures, it will be really easy to play him once everyone finds out.

There is a significant difference between the two deliveries and the modern day batsman will be able to quickly pick it up.

Best to keep him hidden as a surprise package until the world cup.
 
Barragan said:
Going by those pictures, it will be really easy to play him once everyone finds out.

There is a significant difference between the two deliveries and the modern day batsman will be able to quickly pick it up.

Best to keep him hidden as a surprise package until the world cup.
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Not sure about that, picking the delivery from the action means picking it quite early. He seems to have decent control of line and length and that alone makes him a potentially decent T20 spinner. Also looks mentally tough to play at a higher level. Jury is still out for me.
 
Just to add on to Usman Tariq's action as I find it very unique as compared to other mystery spinners. His main arsenal in his bowling is a leg spinners googly that comes out the side of the hand but in all his profiles he goes by as a Off Spinner.

The side of the hand googly is sometimes hard to pick because it deceives the batsman in terms of hand positioning. When a batsman is facing a traditional leg spinner, the ball that comes out from the front or the side of the hand is the leg spinner and the one that comes out of the back of the hand is the googly. Usman Tariq doesn't have a delivery that comes out of the back of his hand. All of his deliveries are either with a front hand facing or side hand facing.

Can batsman then just play his side of the hand deliveries as googlys/off breaks? Sure they can but they first must identify that the side of the hand delivery is the Googly. Just a quick search on the internet and there aren't many places were the side of the hand googly is even mentioned or tought. It's a very unusual delivery that many people don't know about, mainly because the back of the hand googly is more popular, gets more turn, is much easier to ball and easier to control.

What makes the side of the hand googly delivery effective is that it just looks like a leg spin delivery out of the hand, but you can pick it by trajectory and also by the revs on the ball. So when an unknown bowler like Usman Tariq is bowling to you, you see a delivery that comes out like a leggy, that drifts in like a leggy but turns like a offy, then you are going to have a hard time picking it.

I actually won't be surprised if he actually has a conventional leg spin and a off break in his arsenal if he feels that they are picking him. Only time will tell how effective his bowling will be as mystery spinners in the modern age aren't very mysterious anymore when any Tom, Dick or Harry can figure out what you are doing from YouTube highlights.
 
Unless he starts bowling side of the hand leg spinners as well he will quickly be find out by most of the batsmen.
 
Lots of attention on his action now. Not sure if all positive.
 
There is a clear bend in the arm.

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From what I'm reading, he will not be allowed to bowl for the rest of the tourament! That would be really sad if true. He was the bowler with the best economy in the PSL so far basis minimum 10 overs bowled:

Usman Tariq, 11.3 overs, economy 5.73
Shoaib Malik, 16 overs, economy 6.18
Zahid Mahmood, 12 overs, economy 6.33
Agha Salman, 10 overs, economy 7.00
Akeal Hosein, 24 overs economy 7.29
 
This is a good thing.

It is better to get this matter cleared up as soon as possible so we know if we can use him or not.

Everyone knows the action is suspect and it drew a lot of attention even before he played PSL.

It’s harsh on him to not be allowed to bowl but in the long term he’s better off.
 
Mohammad Hafeez explains the action issues of Usman Tariq during a program on a local sports channel:

"Pause is not an issue at all. You can pause during your bowling, that is fine. The issue in bowling, which ICC implemented in 2014, is that by the time you reach to the horizontal position and by the time you release the ball, the difference of the angle of this part and this part, where you have to release it, will be counted. If you are 15 degrees from getting horizontal when you release the ball. And if you go above 15 degrees so your action will be illegal."
 
FearlessRoar said:
Mohammad Hafeez explains the action issues of Usman Tariq during a program on a local sports channel:

"Pause is not an issue at all. You can pause during your bowling, that is fine. The issue in bowling, which ICC implemented in 2014, is that by the time you reach to the horizontal position and by the time you release the ball, the difference of the angle of this part and this part, where you have to release it, will be counted. If you are 15 degrees from getting horizontal when you release the ball. And if you go above 15 degrees so your action will be illegal."
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Hafeez should know he spent most of his time in labs than on the cricket field.

P.S. will there be a cake cutting celebration for this?
 
AAli98 said:
Hafeez should know he spent most of his time in labs than on the cricket field.

P.S. will there be a cake cutting celebration for this?
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Someone asked him on ask the pavilion that you started off as a good bowler but then turned into a Vatta bowler,

They had to cut this question and edited the program into a new question
 
Good that it was identified early. He looked a very effective bowler, but if he was using a questionable action then better he is sidelined as early as possible.
 
Azhar Ali states during a program on a local sports channel that Usman Tariq should be given some margin:

"I believe, from what I've seen of his action, there isn't much to it. The PSL is a domestic tournament; it's not an international game. Now, with only 8-10 days left, this decision will cost Quetta Gladiators and the player. He's performing well in such a big tournament. I think if you also look at Rashid Khan's action, it's quite challenging to execute as a leg spinner. We understand it for off-spinners, but for leg spinners, it's very difficult. So, yes, there is some bend in the arm, but it carries all the way through. I think at this time, they should have given him a bit of margin. Players like Sunil Narine have played in numerous leagues, but their arm bend seemed more pronounced. I think it's too harsh on this youngster."
 
FearlessRoar said:
Mohammad Hafeez explains the action issues of Usman Tariq during a program on a local sports channel:

"Pause is not an issue at all. You can pause during your bowling, that is fine. The issue in bowling, which ICC implemented in 2014, is that by the time you reach to the horizontal position and by the time you release the ball, the difference of the angle of this part and this part, where you have to release it, will be counted. If you are 15 degrees from getting horizontal when you release the ball. And if you go above 15 degrees so your action will be illegal."
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The quality of the pavilion show has declined significantly ever since Hafeez went on the show. He is such an annoying person.
 
He releases with a bent arm

He doesn’t straighten his arm.

He should be flown out to the biomechanics lab asap and get this cleared for everyone
 
Usman Tariq reported for suspect bowling action in PSL 9

Quetta Gladiators spinner Usman Tariq was reported for a suspect bowling action during the HBL PSL 9 fixture between Quetta Gladiators and Karachi Kings on 6 March at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi.

The Quetta Gladiators team management has requested the PCB to allow Usman to undergo the bowling action test which will take place at a PCB-approved facility in due course.

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Nikhil_cric said:
Lo and behold , he has been called for a suspect action.

It's not even a minor pause, he literally pauses and then jumps into his delivery stride.
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Hafeez and Ashwin used to do it frequently before it was banned by ICC couple of years ago.
 
Maliq_Mudasir said:
There is nothing to celebrate in this. You know why I tagged you.
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No you tagged me to somehow prove me or my reading of cricket wrong. What will be the gain from it if he is banned and I am proven wrong that I don’t think he action is unclean? You want to celebrate me being proven wrong once he is totally banned?
 
FearlessRoar said:
Usman Tariq reported for suspect bowling action in PSL 9

Quetta Gladiators spinner Usman Tariq was reported for a suspect bowling action during the HBL PSL 9 fixture between Quetta Gladiators and Karachi Kings on 6 March at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi.

The Quetta Gladiators team management has requested the PCB to allow Usman to undergo the bowling action test which will take place at a PCB-approved facility in due course.

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Who reported it?
 
Rana said:
No you tagged me to somehow prove me or my reading of cricket wrong. What will be the gain from it if he is banned and I am proven wrong that I don’t think he action is unclean? You want to celebrate me being proven wrong once he is totally banned?
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No I tagged you to remind you when I said this guy will be called for illegal action, you responded with abrasive language instead of coming up with logical reason to disagree.
 
FearlessRoar said:
Azhar Ali states during a program on a local sports channel that Usman Tariq should be given some margin:

"I believe, from what I've seen of his action, there isn't much to it. The PSL is a domestic tournament; it's not an international game. Now, with only 8-10 days left, this decision will cost Quetta Gladiators and the player. He's performing well in such a big tournament. I think if you also look at Rashid Khan's action, it's quite challenging to execute as a leg spinner. We understand it for off-spinners, but for leg spinners, it's very difficult. So, yes, there is some bend in the arm, but it carries all the way through. I think at this time, they should have given him a bit of margin. Players like Sunil Narine have played in numerous leagues, but their arm bend seemed more pronounced. I think it's too harsh on this youngster."
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From what I read, he is still allowed to bowl in the tournament. What's he on about here?
 
Mamoon said:
Ashwin is immune because he has a clean action. Why can't people make peace with it.
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It s simple Tariq s action looks clean with the naked eye yet his action is being questioned.

Where as ashwins looks dodgy with the naked eye but umpires are afraid of the pressure the ICC will feel from the indian board and the consequences their careers will face as well as missing out on ipl gigs.

He is immune because of the indian boards influence over the corrupt ICC not because he does nt have a dodgy action.

Don't get it twisted man.
 
Shoaib Akhtar 100 MPH said:
It s simple Tariq s action looks clean with the naked eye yet his action is being questioned.

Where as ashwins looks dodgy with the naked eye but umpires are afraid of the pressure the ICC will feel from the indian board and the consequences their careers will face as well as missing out on ipl gigs.

He is immune because of the indian boards influence over the corrupt ICC not because he does nt have a dodgy action.

Don't get it twisted man.
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I think his arm doesnt get band, he just has a slingy action which makes him suspecious otherwise all good.
 
Shoaib Akhtar 100 MPH said:
This seems a common theme are players go through.

A certain ashwin seems immune from being called.
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The only time Ashwin threw was to highlight that players were "chucking".

After that he resorted to his "normal action".

But ICC finally caught on by his brave act.

Ashwin should get "knight of honor" award for weeding out chuckers from cricket.

His own "normal action" is cleaner than the protege you have in your username.

No amount of crying by Pakistani fans will change that.
 
Good impetus for the Gladiators as their mystery spinner is now available for selection and may feature tonight in an important clash against Multan Sultans.
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Usman Tariq, the spinner for Quetta Gladiators, has been cleared to resume bowling during the current Pakistan Super League (PSL) season nine.

Following a review of his bowling action at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore, Usman received clearance to continue bowling.
 
Sher Khan said:
Good news not only for Quetta but for Pakistan.

I would definitely pick him in the NZ series. Let's see if he sinks or swims.
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I would honestly play him a game or two and then take him straight to the World Cup. Playing him in only the most important games and using him as a weapon. He's likely to roll through a team or two in the World Cup since virtually no one had played him before. It's a gamble but it's worth gambling.
 
Dr_Bassim said:
The only time Ashwin threw was to highlight that players were "chucking".

After that he resorted to his "normal action".

But ICC finally caught on by his brave act.

Ashwin should get "knight of honor" award for weeding out chuckers from cricket.

His own "normal action" is cleaner than the protege you have in your username.

No amount of crying by Pakistani fans will change that.
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The only crying is done by indian fans like you who cant take valid criticism.

With regards to the Big Man Shoaib Akhtar indians fans like you can only dream.

so don't go there.

He should get a knighthood.

since when did players have the authority to weed out chucker's which means you are confirming our suspicions on indian influence over the corrupt ICC are correct.

dont quit your day job dr I think the vaccine s are impairing your vision and effecting your thinking.

ashwins action is dodgy whether you indian fans like it or not.

Maybe you should get a knighthood for pleading his chucking case. :bumble2 :yk

Nice try but no cigar as the saying goes.
 
Good to see Usman Tariq is back and available for selection after all the serious non bias/ partisan cricket supporters knew he was all good.

This lad could be a serious weapon for us in the T20 WC if selected.

we ve been looking for quality spinners for a while and he could be a 3 format option.
 
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