Who is Imran Tahir’s wife? Know all about Sumayya Dildar

Imran Tahir moved to South Africa for his lady.

Imran Tahir and Sumayya Dildar
Imran Tahir and Sumayya Dildar. (Image Credits: Instagram)

Born on 27th March 1979, Imran Tahir is a professional cricketer from South Africa. He is a right-arm leg-spinner by trade. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan and learnt his trade in the same country. In fact, Tahir represented Pakistan on the U19 level and Pakistan A tours. He began to play county cricket and soon after, moved to South Africa in 2006. He honed his leg-spin skills in South Africa domestic cricket and as soon as he became eligible to represent South Africa internationally in 2011, he was called-up for the national side.

Imran Tahir made his ODI debut against West Indies in February 2012, followed by his Test debut against Australia in November 2012. Meanwhile, the veteran leggie made his T20I debut against Sri Lanka in August 2013. Imran Tahir developed himself as a white-ball specialist and represented South Africa across 107 ODIs and 38 T20Is in his career. Meanwhile, he only played 20 Tests for South Africa.

At an age of 43, Imran Tahir is still pretty active across the various T20 Leagues across the planet. He enjoys a massive fan-following in India courtesy of his exploits in the Indian Premier League with Delhi Daredevils, Rising Pune Supergiants, and Chennai Super Kings. Furthermore, he is married to Sumayya Dildar, who is an India-origin South African resident. In this post, we will take a look at Imran Tahir’s personal life and would try to know more about his wife Sumayya Dildar.

Who is Imran Tahir’s wife Sumayya Dildar?

NameSumayya Dildar
Date of Birth
Birth Place
Education
HeightNA
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionHomemaker, formerly a model
SpouseImran Tahir
ChildrenGibran (Son)

Fomerly a model by profession, Sumayya Dildar is a South African national. However, her family hails from India. Imran Tahir’s love story with Sumayya is straight out of the movies as the leg-spinner left Pakistan to shift to South Africa for his then-girlfriend and now-wife, Sumayya Dildar. The couple first met in the year 1988 as Imran Tahir was touring South Africa for U-19 Pakistan’s team. The leggie fell in love with her instantly and then started to travelling to South Africa every year to meet his lady love.

However, it was difficult for the couple to stay together as Sumayya was not ready to leave the rainbow nation. Nevertheless, With his career going nowhere in Pakistan, Imran Tahir took the major step of shifting permanently to South Africa in the year 2006 for his woman and to play international cricket. In 2007, the beautiful couple tied the knot and they have been happily together ever since.

Do Imran Tahir and Sumayya Dildar have a child?

Imran Tahir and Sumayya Dildar are also the proud parents to an adorable son Gibran Tahir. Sumayya gave up on her modeling career as she wanted to focus more on her child and family.

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