{"id":530447,"date":"2026-03-10T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:22:10","slug":"t20-world-cup-sahibzada-farhan-makes-it-to-iccs-team-of-the-tournament-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530447\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Sahibzada Farhan makes it to ICC\u2019s Team of the Tournament – Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the Team of the Tournament for this year\u2019s T20 World Cup, with Pakistani opener Sahibzada Farhaan making the list despite the Green Shirts\u2019 dismal campaign.<\/p>\n

Farhan became the only Pakistani player to be named in the 12-member team for his excellent performance during the tournament, sealing 383 runs \u2013 the highest a batter has scored in a single edition of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough Pakistan were patchy in the tournament, Sahibzada Farhan was consistently brilliant,\u201d the ICC said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 29-year-old opener also became the first batter to score two hundreds in a single edition of a T20 World Cup. The highlight was a century he scored against Sri Lanka in the final Super Eight clash, setting up a five-run win,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The right-handed Pakistani batter scored tons in the matches against Namibia and Sri Lanka. He had also scored two half-centuries against the USA and England.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his 176-run partnership with Fakhar Zaman against Sri Lanka was the record <\/a>highest for any wicket in the history of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

The ICC\u2019s Team of the Tournament also included four players from team India, this year\u2019s champions<\/a>. These included Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s Will Jacks and Adil Rashid, West Indies\u2019 Jason Holder, Zimbabwe\u2019s Blessing Muzarabani, and South Africa\u2019s Aidan Markram and Lungi Ngidi were also included. Markram was also named the captain.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the USA\u2019s Shadley Van Schalkwyk was named the 12th player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the Team of the Tournament for this year\u2019s T20 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-530447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530447","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=530447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}