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Pakistan leg-spinner Usama Mir has signed a three-year T20 deal with Worcestershire which will kick off in 2026. In the opening year, he will participate as an overseas player, while from 2027 onwards, he will become a local. Mir is eligible for naturalisation as his wife is a British citizen. In 2023, he was among the players who received a three-year contract from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after lengthy negotiations. However, he was handed disappointment by the board after witnessing his omission from the central contracts list released in 2024.
His relations with the PCB grabbed attention when he was couldn't participate in the T20 Blast after Worcestershire Rapids reserved his services but the board declined to grant him the NOC. The PCB cited the reason for the refusal, drawing attention to its a "PSL plus two" policy, which precludes players from playing more than two overseas T20 leagues over a 12-month period. Since then, the 29-year-old has featured in leagues such as last year's Hundred, BBL 2024-25, PSL 2025, and the Global Super League 2025. As per ESPNcricinfo, Mir wants to play domestic cricket in Pakistan but he will have to register as an overseas player in any local game he appears in Pakistan from 2027 onwards after getting the status as a local player in the UK.
Usama Mir’s international figures
Usama Mir has played 17 games for Pakistan across both white-ball formats. In T20Is, he has picked up five wickets in five matches while in One-Day Internationals (ODI), he has made 15 wickets in 12 games at an economy of 5.98.
His last ODI appearance came against Bangladesh in the Cricket World Cup 2023 game played at the iconic Eden Gardens while in T20Is, he is last outing was against New Zealand in Lahore in April 2024.
