Cricket player · Bowler · South Africa
Imran Tahir
Imran Tahir appears in 31 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (9 Oct 2025 to 16 Oct 2026). 40 runs in 8 innings. 32 wickets from 99.3 overs. 336 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.
Player profile
- Country
- South Africa
- Role
- Bowler
- Batting
- Right-hand bat
- Bowling
- Leg-break googly
- Born
- 27 Mar 1979 Age 47
- Recorded matches
- 33639 internationals
Imran Tahir is a bowler from South Africa with 336 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, including 39 internationals (37 ODIs, 2 T20Is).
Batting: 309 runs across all recorded formats, with 0 hundreds and 0 fifties; the most runs came in T20 (league and domestic) cricket (252) and the highest recorded score is 20.
Bowling: 442 wickets in recorded matches, 350 of them in T20 (league and domestic) cricket, with 4 five-wicket hauls.
Career figures by format
Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.
| Format | Mat | Inns | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 100/50 | Wkts | Bowl avg | Econ | 5w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODI | 37 | 11 | 33 | 17 | 6.60 | 76.7 | 0/0 | 61 | 25.36 | 4.75 | 0 |
| T20I | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 100.0 | 0/0 | 4 | 14.75 | 6.56 | 0 |
| T20 (league and domestic) | 255 | 59 | 252 | 20 | 8.13 | 93.3 | 0/0 | 350 | 18.36 | 6.82 | 3 |
| T10 | 27 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 17.00 | 130.8 | 0/0 | 15 | 37.07 | 12.49 | 0 |
| 100-ball | 15 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6.00 | 300.0 | 0/0 | 12 | 32.25 | 9.52 | 1 |
Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.
Imran Tahir at a glance
FairPlay holds 31 complete scorecards featuring Imran Tahir, most recently for Guyana Amazon Warriors (T20 and shorter).
In those matches Imran Tahir batted 8 times for 40 runs at a strike rate of 67.80. The highest score was 11 off 11 balls against San Francisco Unicorns.
With the ball: 32 wickets from 99.3 overs, an economy rate of 7.86. Best figures: 5 for 17 against Saint Lucia Kings.
How the 4 dismissals happened: bowled 2, caught 1, run out 1.
These matches were played at 11 different grounds.
Figures in FairPlay's scorecards
| 8 | 4 | 40 | 11 | 10.00 | 67.80 | 0/0 |
| 29 | 99.3 | 0 | 782 | 32 | 5/17 | 7.86 |
Match by match
Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.
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