Farhan, Sadaqat star as Pakistan beat Sri Lanka in T20I opener
Sahibzada Farhan and Maaz Sadaqat struck half-centuries as Pakistan chased down 183 to beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in the first T20I in Rawalpindi on Friday.
Sahibzada Farhan and Maaz Sadaqat struck half-centuries as Pakistan chased down 183 to beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in the first T20I in Rawalpindi on Friday.
Pakistan captain Sahibzada Farhan hopes a new combination without star players Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi will come good against Sri Lanka in their Twenty20 International series starting in Rawalpindi on Friday.
Sahibzada Farhan will captain Pakistan in the upcoming three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka, while Shaheen Shah Afridi will continue to lead the ODI side in the tri-series featuring England and Sri Lanka.
|| ICC || Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan has grabbed the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for February 2026 owing to a stunning ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 campaign in Sri Lanka.
Opener Sahibzada Farhan hit a solid half-century while spinner Usman Tariq grabbed three wickets as Pakistan downed the United States by 32 runs in a T20 World Cup Group A game in Colombo on Tuesday.
Sahibzada Farhan, debuting for Rajshahi Warriors in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), made an instant mark by smashing two sixes off India’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah, a record no one had achieved before.
The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is set to begin on December 26, and overseas players have already started arriving in the country ahead of the tournament.
The ICC has reprimanded Pakistan pacer Haris Rauf and opener Sahibzada Farhan for breaching the Code of Conduct during the September 21 India-Pakistan Super Four match in Dubai.