Namibia captain showed why Pakistan’s Usman Tariq is a challenge for India, the mystery spinner has troubled him before too

Before the India-Pakistan match, it has been proved that Pakistan’s Usman Tariq can become a big problem for India. Namibia’s Captain Gerhard Erasmus himself has proved this. He did not say anything about this, rather troubled the Indian batsmen a lot with his ball against India. There were two reasons for this, firstly, Erasmus was also taking the sling like Tariq, which means his bowling action is almost similar to that of Usman Tariq.

Secondly, he remained as a mystery spinner for India. Even before this, when the mystery spinner played his first match against India, he troubled the players a lot. Ajanta Mendis was at the forefront, while players like Jason Krejza, Tom Hartley are also included in this list, now Usman Tariq’s name can also be next. If India did not prepare for this.

In the match against India and Namibia, Namibian captain Gerhard Erasmus bowled lethally. On the pitch of Delhi’s Ferozeshah Kotla, which is considered for batting, Gerhard gave only 20 runs in the space of 4 overs and also took 4 wickets, which included the important wickets of Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel and Tilak Verma.

Gerhard is a leg spinner, but many times he bowled the ball so low that it became very difficult for the batsman to hit the shot. It is believed that Usman Tariq can also become a challenge for India like Gerhard, because Usman will play against India for the first time. Even before this, there have been many spinners who, when they played against India for the first time, left no stone unturned in destroying the Indian batting.

Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis was the topper in this matter, he played the first ODI match against India. Sri Lanka had fielded him as a mystery bowler in the 2008 final. In this match, Indian batting completely collapsed due to the havoc of Mendis. He took 6 wickets for just 13 runs in the match. The Indian team was all out for 173 runs. Legends like Sachin, Dravid and Laxman were confused in this match. However, later India defeated Mendis and especially Sehwag and Yuvraj beat Mendis a lot.

Jason made his debut against India in the Nagpur Test in 2008. In this match, Jason took 12 wickets, which is the record for taking the most wickets by any debut spinner in Test cricket, this was also the best performance of a debut spinner against India. Thanks to Jason’s lethal bowling, Australia won the match after restricting India’s first innings to 441 runs.

Made his Test debut against India in Tom. In 2024, he troubled the Indian batsmen a lot by taking 7 wickets in the first innings of the match played in Hyderabad. Of course, India won this match, but due to the deadly bowling of Tom Hartley, the match reached exciting turns many times.