Usman Khawaja Test Records, Stats, Runs, Facts, and More

For someone who averages 43 on the whole and has maintained a sense of calmness and stability up top for the world’s most popular cricket team beside India, Usman Khawaja, it ought to be noted, didn’t exactly have a gala time last year. Playing the format he so loves and one in which he’s made a name for himself, it’s a bit of a lull, shocking even one notes, that all that Usman Khawaja managed in Test cricket in 2025 was a batting average of 36. That’s when he began his 2025, now exactly a year back in time, with a bang. How? The left hander famous for his technical correct style of batting opened his account last year with a single digit score, which was soon improved by a gritty 41. At the SCG against India, Khawaja was warming up; greatest damage thanks to a colossal knock, the very best of his Test career was loading. The end beneficiary was, but of course, the intrepid Australian cricket fan but at the behest of an unsuspecting Sri Lankan team that was hung out to dry at the Galle cricket ground. In the opening Test of the 2025 series, the Aussies weren’t tourists in the island paradise called Sri Lanka; they functioned like assaulters and the man wielding the sledgehammer in the form of a cricket bat struck the likes of Prabath Jayasuriya, Jeffrey Vandersay and Asitha Fernando. In a world swayed by smashing boundaries and sweltering sixes and fours, often a common sight at the international Test match level, here was good old Usman Khawaja; biding his time whilst still collecting runs. Finding the gaps but still dancing down the track on a rare occasion.

Anchoring Australia as he so often has in his storied career built on the good old value system of patience and forget not, demonstrating courage under pressure. In his 352-run knock, Khawaja lofted a spinner for a solitary six but each of his 16 boundaries in his career-best knock were a sight to behold. What wasn’t, however, was the statistical anomaly that was to follow.

Wondering what that was about Usman Khawaja back in 2025?

Since his stellar and typically patient 232, it took the famed left hander 11 more innings (he didn’t bat in another two, additionally) to reach a fifty; his next milestone following the Sri Lankan hurrah would come against England at the Adelaide Oval. The 82 off 126 again starred in a winning cause of his country, much like that Test double over half a year ago.

Here he is, again. Only this time, the man known for the art of watching the ball as also leaving the one outside off has decided to leave the format altogether.

And with that comes curtains on a career that lasted to fight for the Aussies, always in service to the country that believed in him, still does, always will.

The decision is his, but the pain is for the classic Test match fan who loved seeing Usman Khawaja endure.

What’s special about Usman Khawaja’s 2025 Test match numbers, if one were to discuss them a touch more, is the glory he tasted a couple of years prior to that incredibly rewarding Sri Lankan special.

Much like patience, the key tenet of his batting, besides a value that in today’s fast-paced world has few takers, there’s a poetic sense of judgement in the fact that the best of Khawaja perhaps lies further back in the day.

And to visit that you have to hit the rewind button. How so?

It was January 2023 and Usman Khawaja was up against the Protea challenge of confronting the trio of Nortje, Maharaj and Rabada. He responded with a dogged and typically under appreciated 195. Just that he lasted 368 deliveries in doing so and didn’t even move from the crease emerging unbeaten after exhibiting a titanic demonstration of class and grace.

The match ended in a draw, however, that wasn’t without a Steve Smith special and a Protea fightback. But the winner was the one who had endured swing and bounce on an exciting SCG wicket. The man who has loved to don the baggy green at the elitist format of the sport. One that is as grateful at having one of its ardent students represent it, as is that very quiet but effective achiever.

Hope your coming knock is a fine one, as per normal Usman Khawaja. May it be a moment to savour and one for the love of Test match cricket, as has been much of your career.