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Sussex all-rounder Danial Ibrahim has broken the record for the youngest centurion in the history of County Championship. The sixteen years old Ibrahim scored 55 in his debut match for Sussex.

The 16-year-old cricketer was stunned to know that he was getting a chance to make his debut. He scored his fifty off 134 deliveries with eight fours in Sussex’s first innings total of 313

“I was shocked on Sunday when I was told I was playing but I was so excited as well. There are not many better grounds than Headingley on which to make a debut and it was just so special to be out there when Ben Brown made his century. It was really tough to bat against the new ball but Browny helped me though it and took the pressure off,” Ibrahim was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo 

“I found it all tough but I just had to keep battling though and do the best I could. Ben Coad and Steve Patterson test your technique and you have to be switched on all the time you are facing them. But I enjoy a battle,” he added.

Ibrahim who is 16 years and 299 days, broke the previous record of Bilal Shafayat, who was 16 years and 360 days old when he scored 72 for Nottinghamshire in 2001. There have only been six English 16-year-olds to score a first-class fifty.