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Full name | Jafer Ali Chohan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | London | 11 July 2002||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-Rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023–2024 | Yorkshire (squad no. 5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20 debut | 20 May 2023 Yorkshire v Birmingham Bears | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,19 August 2024 |
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 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. [1] In 2021 he started a degree in International Relations at Loughborough University. [2] [3]
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. [4] [5] [6] 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. [7]
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. [8]
In July 2023,he was drafted into The Hundred by the Southern Brave. [9]
In July 2023,it was announced he had signed a new two-year contract with Yorkshire. [10]
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