PAKISTAN · OPENING BATTER

Fakhar Zaman

An attacking left-handed opener from Mardan and a former Pakistan Navy sailor. Fakhar announced himself with a century in the 2017 Champions Trophy final and holds Pakistan’s only men’s ODI double hundred. He is also a Lahore Qalandars great and one of only two batters with 3,000 PSL runs.

CAREER STATISTICS

International career in numbers

Format	Matches	Runs	Average	100s / 50s	Best
Test	3	192	32.00	0 / 2	94
ODI	82+	3,492+	about 46	11 / 16+	210*
T20I	88+	1,815+	about 24	0 / 11+	91

Test figures are final (last Test January 2019). ODI and T20I figures are from his latest available ESPNcricinfo profile and may not include his most recent matches, so they are shown as minimums.

RECORDS & HIGHLIGHTS

Career highlights

210* v Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, July 2018: the only men’s ODI double century by a Pakistani and the country’s highest ODI score.
Player of the Match in the 2017 Champions Trophy final: 114 off 106 balls as Pakistan beat India by 180 runs.
Reached 1,000 ODI runs in 18 innings in 2018, a world record at the time.
The only player to score 180 or more twice in ODI chases.
ICC Men’s Player of the Month, April 2023.
Second batter to reach 3,000 PSL runs (March 2026), after Babar Azam.

PROFILE

Player profile

Born: 10 April 1990, Mardan
Batting: Left-handed
Bowling: Slow left-arm orthodox (occasional)
Debuts: T20I v West Indies, 30 March 2017 · ODI v South Africa, 7 June 2017 · Test v Australia, 16 October 2018
Teams: Lahore Qalandars (PSL, since 2017)
Shirt number: 39