WATCH: Usman Khawaja flies a Qantas Airbus A380

Dixit Bhargav | 21/02/2019
Usman Khawaja flies a Qantas Airbus A380

Usman Khawaja flies a Qantas Airbus A380: The Australian southpaw put on display his skills as a qualified pilot.

Australia batsman Usman Khawaja recently made public his flying skills. A qualified pilot, Khawaja got a chance to ride an Airbus A380 with one of Australian cricket team’s sponsor in Qantas.

In the video which was uploaded on the official Twitter account of Cricket Australia, it lets people watch the southpaw flying a plane and also talk about how his fascination with planes started.

“I traveled a lot as a kid. My dad worked in Saudi Arabia for about 5-6 years, so I use to travel back and forth to see them and then come back here to play cricket. I just grew a fascination with planes.

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As I was coming towards the end, year 11-12, I thought ‘what about flying’. I found UNSW [University of New South Wales – School of Aviation], which offered both a degree to make my mother happy and get my license to get my wings,” Khawaja was quoted as saying.

“Flying helped me in terms of cricket”

Relating flying with cricket, the left-handed batsman mentioned that he implies the discipline learnt during his graduation in his batting as well. “I think flying helped me a lot in terms of cricket. Probably the biggest way was discipline and keeping up with the learning, making sure you are on top of any changes that have happened.

“There are a lot of things that go hand in hand between flying and especially playing Test cricket. The discipline part of flying and discipline of being a sportsman, especially being a cricketer and being a batsman, I think there are a lot of similarities,” he added.

Watch the full video below:

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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