Pakistan’s Usman Tariq left his cricket ambitions back home to start a salesman’s job in Dubai, before a biopic about India great Mahendra Singh Dhoni changed his life.
The unusual bowling action of the double-jointed spinner has created plenty of chatter in his first T20 World Cup, and now he goes into Sunday’s revived clash against India as one of Pakistan’s main weapons.
His inspiration was born in India, and Usman admits that if he had not watched the 2016 Bollywood movie M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, he might not be playing cricket today.
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