Farhaan Behardien

Farhaan Behardien is a South African former international cricketer, born in Johannesburg on 9 October 1983. An aggressive right-handed batter, useful right-arm medium bowler and athletic fielder, he played for South Africa in One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals between 2012 and 2018. ^{1 2 3}

He played 59 ODIs, scoring 1,074 runs, and 38 T20Is, scoring 518 runs, and his first-class career ran to 125 matches and 7,315 runs. ¹

Behardien made both his first-class and List A debuts in the 2004–05 season for Western Province, then became a central player for the Titans from 2006–07 to 2019–20. ¹

In July 2009 he toured Australia for three weeks with the South African emerging squad, and he represented South Africa at the 2009 Hong Kong Sixes, hitting a six off the final ball to lead his side to victory in the final against Hong Kong. ¹

In May 2017 he was named T20 Challenge Player of the Season at Cricket South Africa's annual awards, and in September 2018 he scored his 6,000th first-class run, batting for the Titans. ¹

Overseas, he played for Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League and for Leicestershire and Durham in England, represented Cape Town Blitz and the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants in the Mzansi Super League, and closed his domestic career with the Knights, Free State and Boland. ¹

Behardien made his T20I debut against India in early 2012, scoring 20 not out from 11 deliveries, earned a place in South Africa's squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, and played in the ODI side in 2014, where he scored an important 65 not out. ¹

On 10 January 2017 he was appointed South Africa's T20I captain for the Sri Lanka series; his last ODI came against India in February 2018 and his last T20I against Australia in November 2018. ^{1 2}

In December 2022, Behardien announced his retirement from international cricket in a note posted on Twitter, as reported by the International Cricket Council and ESPNcricinfo. ¹

Neither the English nor the Urdu Wikipedia article states a religion for Behardien; his Wikidata item gives the religion value "Islam". No source names a school for him, so his record's faith field stays "unknown" under the museum's two-source rule and doubt rule, and this page reports only what the sources give. ^{1 2 3}

Behardien's public significance lies in his standing as a reliable middle-order batter and all-rounder in a strong South African limited-overs generation, in his captaincy of his country's T20I side in 2017, and in a long domestic career as a mainstay of the Titans for more than a decade. ¹

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