July 21: Firstpost report by Saj Sadiq states that Born in April 1990 in the city of Mardan, Fakhar Zaman is a cricketer who has had to toil extremely hard to work his way up the cricketing ladder in Pakistan and is certainly not one of those cricketers who have had the privilege of political backing, a silver spoon or indeed selectors who favoured him. Zaman moved to the cricket-mad city of Karachi at the age of 16 and joined the Pakistan Navy as a sailor in 2007. It was a career that his father had chosen for him after declining his son's wishes to pursue a career in the sport that he loved, cricket. However whilst in Karachi serving in the Navy, Fakhar continued his passion for cricket and started to represent the Pakistan Navy Team in domestic matches. His Navy team coach Azam Khan persuaded him to take up cricket professionally in 2013, to follow his dream, to try and make it as a cricketer. As the saying goes, the rest is history.

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