Pakistan’s opening batter Sahibzada Farhan and women’s cricket captain Fatima Sana have been included among the nominees for the ICC’s Player of the Month award for February 2026.
Farhan enjoyed a remarkable run with the bat during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, finishing as the tournament’s highest run-scorer. The right-handed opener broke the record for the most runs in a single edition of the tournament, surpassing Virat Kohli’s previous tally of 319 runs set in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2014. Farhan amassed 383 runs at an impressive strike rate of 160.25 while averaging 76.60.
The Pakistan opener also registered two centuries during the tournament — against Namibia and Sri Lanka — becoming the first batter to score two hundreds in a single edition of the Men’s T20 World Cup.
His prolific form helped Pakistan reach the Super 8 stage of the competition, where they narrowly missed out on a place in the semi-finals.
