Jafer Chohan — Sydney Sixers | BBL Player Profile

Watch a Sixers training session and Jafer Chohan's status shows quickly: drills run through the bowler, and younger teammates orbit his routines.

His bowling is built on control first: hit the hard length, defend the short boundary, and make batters take the risk on his terms rather than the other way round.

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Few grounds ask more questions than Sydney Cricket Venue (SCG); his record there reads like a man who has answered most of them. The SCG's heritage Members' Pavilion and short square boundaries produce a very Sydney mix of tradition and chaos, and it anchors both Sydney Smash fixtures in BBL|16.

Inside the Sixers dressing room he shares the workload with Jack Edwards (the all-rounder), Babar Azam (the batter), Ben Dwarshuis (the bowler), Todd Murphy (the bowler), Joel Davies (the all-rounder), Moises Henriques (the all-rounder) — combinations that decide whether Sydney Sixers control the middle overs or chase the game. The calendar tests it early, with the Sun 3 Jan 2027 meeting with Adelaide Strikers and the Sun 10 Jan 2027 meeting with Perth Scorchers both on the slate.

In the gym data the strength staff publish internally, his repeat-effort numbers sit near the squad's ceiling — the engine behind his late-innings output. Travel is the league's hidden opponent — Perth to Hobart is a continent — and his routines for sleep, food and recovery are famously meticulous.

By the numbers around him: the Sixers carry a 16-name primary group with 3 overseas signings, 3 championship(s) in the cabinet (2011-12, 2019-20, 2020-21), a home ground holding 48,000 people in Sydney, and a captain, Moises Henriques, who has lifted silverware in this league before. Jafer Chohan is one of 5 bowlers in the group — a pecking order that December form will re-sort.

Circle his individual duels, too: Sam Billings, the Thunder wicketkeeper-batter, and Glenn Maxwell of the Stars are the kind of head-to-heads that swing the fixtures between these clubs — small battles inside the big ones that coaches clip for Monday review.

Rain delays reveal dressing-room characters: card schools, quiz masters, the keeper who does impressions. His contribution is a crossword, completed in pen, argued over loudly. Off-season footage of his training circulates among coaches: empty stadiums, a bowling machine, a man rebuilding small technical things nobody else noticed were broken. The analysts' laptops say one thing about opposition bowlers; the old heads in the change room say another. He listens to both and trusts his eyes at the crease. His phone fills with messages from junior teammates after a big night — clips, questions, jokes — and he answers more of them than the media team would believe.

The Sixers schedule is front-loaded with travel, so early-summer output matters double. Expect Jafer Chohan to feature heavily in the December block before the finals race tightens in January.

Full name	Jafer Chohan
Team	Sydney Sixers
Country	England
Role	Bowler
Wicketkeeper	No
Date of birth / age	PENDING verification — this guide does not publish a birth date it has not confirmed from an official profile
BBL career stats	The complete career record of Jafer Chohan in this league is being reconciled with ESPNcricinfo data. Rather than copy an unverified number, this table waits — confirmed benchmarks sit on the records hub. See the records hub.
X / Twitter	not publicly listed (no verified handle confirmed from a reliable source)
Squad status	BBL|15 squad member (latest completed season, checked 26 October 2026); BBL|16 signings tracked on the Sixers team page

Watch his campaign unfold on the points table as the Sixers chase a top-four finish, and compare his career marks with the all-time league records.