Mir topped the batting and bowling averages at New Road as Worcestershire reached the quarter-finals before losing at Hampshire
Worcestershire have re-signed Usama Mir for their 2024 T20 Blast campaign, after the Pakistan leg-spinner starred in 2023.
Mir, who featured for Pakistan at the recent World Cup, only joined the county through chance last season, with the 27-year-old playing club cricket in Wales when Mitchell Santner's late arrival from the IPL meant a gap in the spin department needed filling for the club's first three games.
That stint was then extended when Worcestershire's other overseas spinner, Michael Bracewell, suffered a season-ending Achilles rupture.
Mir returned to top the batting and bowling averages at New Road as Worcestershire reached the quarter-finals before losing at Hampshire.
"I'm absolutely delighted to be coming back to Worcestershire for another spell in the Vitality Blast next summer," he said. "I said when I joined this year that I was living the dream by having a chance to play in county cricket and it lived up to all expectations.
Usama Mir impressed for Worcestershire in 2023 (David Rogers/Getty Images)
"We played some superb cricket to reach the quarter-finals and I was delighted to be able to play my part. It was a big learning curve for me, different conditions to what I'm used to back home, but all the lads made me feel at home from day one. There is no reason why we can't have another successful run next summer."
He took 19 wickets at 16.89 apiece, with an economy rate of 7.29.
Worcestershire head coach Alan Richardson added: "It's great to get things tied up this early in terms of one of our overseas signings for 2024. Usama showed to everyone just how good a leg-spinner he during the Blast last summer and gave us that additional potency in our attack."
His signing comes the day after it was announced that Fanos Hira has stepped down as chair after five years, as well as from the club's board.
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