Sahibzada Farhan ( ps, ; born 6 March 1996) is a Pakistani
cricket
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er.
He has played for several domestic teams since 2016 and in June 2018, he was called up to the
national team for the first time. In August 2018, he was one of thirty-three players to be awarded a central contract for the 2018–19 season by the
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Domestic career
He made his
first-class debut for
Peshawar in the
2016–17 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy
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on 1 October 2016.
He plays for
Islamabad United
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in the
Pakistan Super League. He was the leading run-scorer for
Balochistan in the
2017 Pakistan Cup
The 2017 Pakistan Cup was the second edition of the Pakistan Cup, a List A cricket competition. It was held from 16 to 29 April 2017, with all the matches played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi. It was contested between five teams, ...
, with 331 runs in five matches.
In April 2018, he was named in
Punjab's squad for the
2018 Pakistan Cup
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.
In the opening fixture of the tournament, against
Balochistan, he scored 155 runs and was named the man of the match.
In March 2019, he was named in
Sindh
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's squad for the
2019 Pakistan Cup
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.
In September 2019, he was named in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's squad for the
2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy
The 2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was a first-class domestic cricket competition that took place in Pakistan from 14 September to 31 December 2019. Habib Bank Limited were the defending champions. However, after the new domestic structure annou ...
tournament. In January 2021, he was named in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's squad for the
2020–21 Pakistan Cup
The 2020–21 Pakistan Cup was a List A cricket competition that took place in Karachi, Pakistan from 8 January to 31 January 2021. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were the defending champions after they beat Baluchistan. However, after the new domestic stru ...
. He was the leading run-scorer in the
2021–22 National T20 Cup
The 2021–22 National T20 Cup was a Twenty20 domestic cricket competition that was played in Pakistan. It was the eighteenth season of the National T20 Cup, with the tournament starting on 23 September 2021, and finished on 13 October 2021. In ...
, with 447 runs. He was named the PCB's Domestic Cricketer of the Year for 2021.
International career
In June 2018, he was named in Pakistan's
Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the
2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series
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.
He made his T20I debut against
Australia
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in the final of the tournament.
In December 2018, he was named in Pakistan's team for the
2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup
The 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup was the third edition of the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup held in Karachi, Pakistan and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Eight teams participated in the tournament including five under-23 age level teams of Test nations and ...
.
References
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1996 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Pakistan Twenty20 International cricketers
Baluchistan cricketers
Peshawar cricketers
Islamabad United cricketers
Karachi Kings cricketers
People from Charsadda District, Pakistan