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Usman Khawaja has been an ornament to Australian cricket, but the time has come to put him back on the mantelpiece.
To say so is not to downplay his contribution as a prolific top-of-the-order late-career run-maker, nor to forget how easy on the eye he was to watch his languid pomp. Those attributes stand forever.
It is certainly not to diminish Khawaja's standing as a pioneering figure in Australian cricket history. He is the first Pakistani and first Muslim to play for Australia, proudly so, impactfully so. As such, he has been unafraid to stand on toes. In so many ways, he's widened his stance and our horizons. Even those who disagreed with him could not deny that he was thought-provoking.