Full Name

Saif Ali Zaib

Born

May 22, 1998, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Age

27y 144d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Slow Left arm Orthodox

Playing Role

Batting Allrounder

Education

Royal Grammar School, Wycombe

Saif Zaib was at risk of becoming an unfulfilled talent heading into the 2025 season. Instead, he scored more runs (1425) in the County Championship than anyone else in the country, with six hundreds, and was widely considered unfortunate to miss out on selection for the England Lions' tour to Australia. He cited the birth of his daughter in the spring and the arrival of Darren Lehmann - like Zaib, a free-scoring left-handed middle-order batter - as Northamptonshire's head coach as the primary reasons for his new-found consistency.

By that stage, Zaib had been considered a future star for more than a decade. It was in May 2014 that he became the first 15-year-old to play for Northants - in a non-first-class fixture against Durham UCCE - and he was soon offered a professional contract while still studying at RGS Wycombe. But he struggled to convert his potential into performance, and it took him until 2021 to score his maiden professional hundred, against Sussex at Wantage Road. He started to become a consistent performer in the middle order in the T20 Blast and earned Hundred deals with Northern Superchargers and Welsh Fire, before finally proving himself against the red ball in his stellar 2025 summer.
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Saif Zaib Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC7411973884196*34.67691656.1591943941280
List A3528179113629.2985392.7314671390
T20s98841916259225.001132143.550815460390

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC746430811819486/1156/11537.893.5464.1120
List A352511461023304/234/2334.105.3538.2100
T20s9839425583183/123/1232.388.2323.6000

Saif Zaib T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Men's 1002 teams141011172113.0099118.180010330
Vitality BlastNOR83731814759226.81998147.790814057350

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Men's 1002 teams14745702 1/6 1/635.009.3322.5000
Vitality BlastNOR833238051316 3/12 3/1232.068.1023.7000

Recent Matches of Saif Zaib

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Masters vs Sixers----11-Oct-2025VancouverOTHEROD
Masters vs Kings32--10-Oct-2025VancouverOTHEROD
Masters vs BBZ3--09-Oct-2025VancouverOTHEROD
Masters vs Tigers470/1608-Oct-2025VancouverOTHEROD
Northants vs Leics62 & 580/33 & 1/424-Sep-2025NorthamptonFC

Photos of Saif Zaib

Saif Zaib raises his bat on reaching a century
Saif Zaib made his fourth first-class hundred
Saif Zaib gets low to sweep
Saif Zaib spears the ball in
Saif Zaib smashed 44 off 21 balls
Saif Zaib goes on the attack