![]() Chohan in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jafer Ali Chohan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | London | 11 July 2002|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023– | Yorkshire (squad no. 5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024/25 | Sydney Sixers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2025 | London Spirit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 22 July 2025 PCC XI v Pakistan Shaheens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20 debut | 20 May 2023 Yorkshire v Birmingham Bears | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,25 August 2025 |
Jafer Ali Chohan (born 11 July 2002) is an English professional cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg break bowler.
He was born into a British Pakistani family and developed his leg-spin bowling style by emulating former Pakistan international Shahid Afridi. [1] He was also inspired to bowl leg-spin by seeing Shane Warne play for Rajasthan Royals at Lord's in 2009. He received a cricket scholarship to attend Harrow School. He played in the age groups at Middlesex County Cricket Club from nine years-old to the Academy. [2] In 2021 he started a degree in International Relations at Loughborough University. [3] [4]
He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club as they won the National Counties 50-over competition in 2022. Impressing at Berkshire he was recommended to the South Asian Cricket Academy,where performances against county 2nd XIs and as a net bowler for the England Test squad ahead of their 2022-2023 tour of Pakistan earned Chohan a trial with Yorkshire CCC where he was offered a rookie contract in January 2023. [5] [6] [7] Bowling at the England test team he dismissed both Joe Root and Ben Duckett,with Root recommending him a trial at Yorkshire. Chohan impressed in Cape Town on Yorkshire’s pre-season tour of South Africa in March 2023. [8]
In May 2023,Chohan was named in the Yorkshire side for their opening T20 Blast match of the 2023 season,against Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston Cricket Ground. [9] In July 2023,he was drafted into The Hundred by the Southern Brave. [10] In the same month,it was announced he had signed a new two-year contract with Yorkshire. [11]
In September 2024,he was drafted by the Sydney Sixers for the 2024–25 BBL. [12] Chohan signed a new three-year contract with Yorkshire on 1 October 2024, [13] [14] He made his Big Bash League debut on 15 January 2025 against Adelaide Strikers. [15]
In October 2024,he was named in the England Lions squad for their tour of South Africa and received his first call-up to the senior England squad for their white-ball tour of the West Indies later that month. [16] [17] [18]
He is a Muslim and wears a chain necklace during matches,fitted with religious gemstones. [19]
Chohan, who has Pakistani heritage and is a hard-hitting lower order batter, says he has modelled his style of leg-spin bowling on Shahid Afridi and is not dissimilar to Anil Kumble in the way he bowls.