Tanvir Ahmed: “Even if you don’t like him, swallow the bitter pill. Select him for the national team and let him prove himself. Farhan is excelling domestically – his starts are strong and he’s performing under pressure”
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Former Pakistan seamer Tanvir Ahmed has urged the selectors to keep picking big-hitting batsman Sahibzada Farhan in the national team, even if they don’t like him.
Tanvir noted that Farhan is in excellent form at the moment and it would be a mistake for the men in green to let it go to waste.
As a result, he wants the 29-year-old to get a proper run in the Pakistan team so that he can “prove himself”.
Recently, Farhan was the highest run-scorer in the National T20 Cup with 605 runs in seven matches for Peshawar Region, which included three centuries and two fifties, at an incredible average of 121 and a strike-rate of 189.65.
The Charsadda native didn’t stop there as he was the top run-scorer in the 2025 Pakistan Super League (PSL) as well, amassing 449 runs in 12 games for Islamabad United, which included a hundred and three half-centuries, at an average of 37.41 and a strike-rate of 152.20.
“He is playing outstanding cricket – amazing, in fact. He has scored three centuries in domestic cricket, including a triple hundred, and now his first PSL hundred. His consistency is remarkable, and he is in excellent touch,” Tanvir said on his YouTube channel as quoted by Cricket Pakistan.
“If you don’t like a player, fine, but don’t fabricate excuses – claiming he has attitude problems, arrives late to training, or doesn’t train properly. This is a recurring issue in our cricket culture. When selectors can’t drop a player based on performance, they resort to questioning his attitude.
“Even if you don’t like him, swallow the bitter pill. Select him for the national team and let him prove himself. Farhan is excelling domestically – his starts are strong and he’s performing under pressure.”
Following PSL 10, Farhan got the opportunity to play in Pakistan’s three-match T20I series against Bangladesh and struck 75 runs in two games, which included a career-best knock of 74, at an average of 37.50 and a strike-rate of 166.66.
The men in green won the series 3-0.
Pakistan Squad for Bangladesh T20I Series: Salman Ali Agha (captain), Shadab Khan (vice-captain), Abbas Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hassan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper), Muhammad Irfan Khan, Naseem Shah, Sahibzada Farhan (wicketkeeper) and Saim Ayub
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