Former Australian U19 World Cup champion Harjas Singh has been rushed into the Sydney Sixers Big Bash squad as a local replacement for English leg spinner Jafer Chohan, who has been sidelined with an illness.<\/p>\n
The Sixers made the announcement on the eve of the BBL|15 season opener against the Perth Scorchers at Optus Stadium on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cFresh off an outrageous 314 off 141 balls, Harjas joins as a local replacement for Jafer Chohan (illness),\u201d the Sixers announced<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n \u201cWelcome to the Sixers, Harjas. Can\u2019t wait to see you light up the BBL.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Josh Hazlewood provides update on Test cricket future<\/a><\/p>\n Born in Sydney to Indian parents, 20-year-old Singh was a key member of the successful Australian squad at the 2024 U19 World Cup in South Africa, batting at number four in a line-up that also included Sydney Thunder stars Sam Konstas and Hugh Weibgen.<\/p>\n He was thrust further into national\u2014and global prominence\u2014at the start of the current summer after blasting an extraordinary triple-century in a one-day match for Sydney grade cricket side Western Suburbs in October, an innings Western Suburbs club president Michael Swan<\/a> described as\u00a0\u2018phenomenal\u2019 and\u00a0\u2018insane\u2019.<\/p>\n The third highest individual score in Sydney first grade cricket history, Singh\u2019s innings included 35 sixes and 14 fours and placed him firmly on the radar of Big Bash franchises.<\/p>\n Ironically, Singh actually represented cross-town rivals Sydney Thunder in a T10 competition earlier in 2025,\u00a0but is now set to make his Big Bash debut wearing the magenta of the Sixers\u2014potentially as soon as tonight in Perth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australian U19 World Cup champion Harjas Singh has been rushed into the Sydney Sixers Big Bash squad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}