Saad Bin Zafar

In his 4th match against Edmonton Royals, his bowling figure was 2/34 in 4 overs, including the wicket of Shadab Khan on a golden duck.

In the Qualifier 1 against Brampton Wolves, Saad was able to pick up 4 wickets by only giving 22 runs in 4 overs.

Saad also currently holds the record for the 3rd highest strike rate of 414.28 in a T20I innings.

At the age of 10, he started playing tape ball cricket with friends on the streets.

Later at the age of 14, his school's sports teacher spotted Saad and introduced him to Leather ball cricket by selecting him for the junior school cricket team.

He bowled exceptionally well in the 8th over in which he bagged 3 wickets by only giving 1 run which included the wicket of Shahid Afridi on a golden duck and the captain Colin Munro, who scored the fastest 50 of the tournament.

His outstanding bowling spell got him the well-deserved man of the match award and led the Vancouver Knights into finals.

Saad Bin Zafar (born 10 November 1986) is a Pakistani-Canadian international cricketer who represents Canada in international cricket and is currently the captain of the men's national team.

Saad is a left-handed all-rounder.

Saad holds the world record for completing his maximum quota of overs (4 overs in a 20-over match) without conceding a run in a men's T20I match and has the 7th most maiden overs bowled in T20I career.

In the final match against Winnipeg Hawks, he had an 86-run 5th wicket partnership with Shoaib Malik and 53-run 6th wicket partnership with Andre Russell.

Due to the high run rate requirement, Vancouver couldn't find success chasing the 192 target set by the Hawks and loss in the super over.

In 2004, he started playing club cricket for Overseas Cricket club in Premier Division.

While enrolled at the University of Toronto he got the opportunity to lead CIMA Toronto Mayor’s Team XI which toured to England under the program of Cricket Across the Pond in 2010.

He had an impressive all-round performance by scoring 275 runs and bagged 11 wickets.

He also had a successful stint as a skipper of Mayor's Team XI by winning 7 out of their 9 matches on the tour.

He scored 262 not out in a 50 over game in Scarborough Cricket League Premier Division in August 2015.

In January 2017, he played for the ICC Americas in the 2016–17 Regional Super50 and was the leading wicket-taker for his team.

In his 9 wickets that season, he was able to dismiss the likes of Shai Hope, Chadwick Walton, and Jermaine Blackwood.

On 3 June 2018, he was selected to play for the Vancouver Knights in the players' draft for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament.

Saad was the second Canadian player to be selected in the draft after Nikhil Dutta in round 9.

In his third match against Montreal Tigers his bowling figure was 3/21 in 4 overs.

He was able to take the wickets of Sikandar Raza, George Worker and Najibullah Zadran on duck.

In his fifth match against Toronto Nationals he took 2/22 in 3.5 overs and scored unbeaten 12 in 47-run winning partnership with Chadwick Walton.

In the final match of 2018 Global T20 Canada against West Indies B cricket team, he took 2 wickets including the wicket of Fabian Allen by giving away 26 runs in 4 overs, also having a wicket maiden over.

Vancouver Knights didn't have an ideal start to the chase as Chadwick Walton, Chris Gayle and Ben Dunk fell cheaply to leave them at 22 for 3 but Saad and Rassie van der Dussen came up with a crucial unbeaten 126-run partnership to get Knights back on track in the chase.

Saad played the role of an aggressor, dealing in regular boundaries to bring up a 32-ball fifty.

He collected eight fours and three sixes in his unbeaten 48-ball stay for 79 runs.

Saad was adjudged man of the match for his brilliant all-round performance.

In September 2018, he was called up as a replacement player of Bangladesh's allrounder Mahmudullah by St Kitts and Nevis Patriots for CPL playoffs.

In June 2019, he was selected to play for the Vancouver Knights franchise team in the 2019 Global T20 Canada tournament.

He had a successful tournament as he was the leading wicket-taker for the Vancouver Knights.

In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Amsterdam Knights in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.

However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.

In December 2019, he was selected to play for the Falcon Hunters in the Qatar T10 League.

Falcon Hunters were named Champions for the inaugural season by beating Swift Gallopers by 4 wickets.

Saad had a successful tournament just like his team by being the fifth leading wicket-taker of the season.

In his six dismissals, he was able to collect key wickets of Mohammad Hafeez and Kamran Akmal.

In July 2020, he was named in the St Lucia Zouks squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League.

In September 2020, he was added to the Houston Hurricanes squad for the 2021 Minor League Cricket season.