.jpg) Chohan in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jafer Ali Chohan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2002-07-11)11 July 2002 (age 23) London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armleg 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 professionalcricketer who plays forYorkshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-armleg break bowler.
He was born into aBritish Pakistani family and developed his leg-spin bowling style by emulating former Pakistan internationalShahid Afridi.[1] He was also inspired to bowl leg-spin by seeingShane Warne play for Rajasthan Royals atLord's in 2009. He received a cricket scholarship to attendHarrow School. He played in the age groups atMiddlesex County Cricket Club from nine years-old to the Academy.[2] In 2021 he started a degree in International Relations atLoughborough University.[3][4]
He played forBerkshire County Cricket Club as they won theNational 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 bothJoe Root andBen 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 openingT20 Blast match of the 2023 season, against Birmingham Bears atEdgbaston Cricket Ground.[9] In July 2023, he was drafted intoThe Hundred by theSouthern 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 theSydney Sixers for the2024–25 BBL.[12] Chohan signed a new three-year contract with Yorkshire on 1 October 2024,[13][14] He made hisBig Bash League debut on 15 January 2025 againstAdelaide Strikers.[15]
In October 2024, he was named in theEngland Lions squad for their tour of South Africa and received his first call-up to the seniorEngland squad for their white-ball tour of theWest Indies later that month.[16][17][18]
He is aMuslim 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.