Youngest Bowler In World To Pick 10 Wickets Bags Hat-trick At 17
Farhan Ahmed, 17, took a hat-trick and five-wicket haul for Nottinghamshire in Vitality Blast, leading them to a win against Lancashire.
Star England spinner Rehan Ahmed's brother, Farhan, on Friday, was the star performer in the ongoing Vitality Blast, as he bagged a hat-trick and eventually a five-wicket haul to take Nottinghamshire to a four-wicket win over Lancashire at home, in a brilliant performance at just 17 years old.
The hat-trick was the first-ever in Nottinghamshire's T20 history, and Farhan finished with figures of 5-0-25-5.
Last year, Farhan had made his first-class debut for the team at 16 years old to be the club's youngest FC cricketer. He finished with figures of 7/140 on his debut.
The hat-trick and a maiden white-ball five-for for Farhan, who last season became the youngest cricketer in FC cricket in Britain to have 10 wickets in a game, helped bowl out Lancashire for a paltry 126.
Opting to bat first, Phil Salt and skipper Keaton Jennings built a 38-run opening partnership before the latter was dismissed by Farhan.
Lancashire soon found themselves at 53/5 in the eighth over before Matty Hurst and Chris Green added 63 runs for the sixth wicket. After the former was run out by Olly Stone in the 17th over, Lancashire couldn't build any more partnerships.
In the chase, Nottinghamshire found themselves at 14/4 in the third over before Lyndon James and wicketkeeper Tom Moores added 81 runs for the fifth wicket.
After James was dismissed by Luke Wells, Moores and Daniel Sams added 31 runs for the sixth wicket. Nottinghamshire eventually chased down the target in the 16th over.
'I've always said that he's a role model. We live together, and we eat together and everything. He's already a role model that I'll always look up to," Farhan had told ESPNCricinfo about his brother Rehan earlier this year.
Two years after Rehan became the youngest man to play Test for England against Pakistan and then the youngest to take a five-for on debut, in the second innings at Karachi, Farhan emulated the former with his pair of red-ball records.
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