Sahibzada Farhan can do no wrong with a bat in hand. The right-hand batter is breaking one record after another, and is storming his way back into the Pakistan National Team after once being overlooked. Farhan is in the spotlight due to his exploits in the recently concluded Pakistan National T20 League. Five days back, the right-hand batter slammed the third-highest individual score in men's T20 history (162) against the Quetta Region.
After that epic hundred, Farhan followed it up with another massive hundred (148) in the semifinal match against Abbottabad. With two hundreds within five days, Farhan set a new world record of becoming the first cricketer ever to make two 130-plus scores in a single T20 tournament. If the cut-off is reduced to 125, Farhan gets joined in the elite club by Chris Gayle on the list, who scored 126* and 146* in the 2017-18 BPL edition.
Farhan enters history books with his record-shattering knocks in the National T20 Cup
Overall, Farhan has struck three hundreds in the National T20 Cup. He became just the fifth player to make three or more hundreds in a T20 tournament. Jos Buttler and Virat Kohli are the two cricketers to have struck four hundreds in a single T20 tournament. Both the batters achieved these records in the 2016 and 2022 IPL seasons, respectively.
Farhan has scored a jaw-dropping 588 runs in the 2025 National T20 Cup, the highest by any batter in a season in the tournament, breaking his own record of 492 runs he amassed last season. The right-hand batter also currently occupies two spots in terms of most sixes hit in a single edition of the National T20 Cup, having struck 39 sixes.
However, despite his insane numbers in domestic cricket, Farhan has only played nine T20Is for Pakistan; the most recent outing came in December 2024. He made his T20I debut in 2018 but was dropped after playing just three games. The right-hand batter made a comeback last year but could not cement his place in the team. From nine T20Is, Farhan averages 9.5 with a strike rate of just 95.5.
Worst, Farhan does not have a PSL contract either, despite performing decently for Lahore Qalandars last season, for whom he scored 266 runs at a strike rate of 133.
