Former Pakistan first class Cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz become first professional cricketer to succumb to Coronavirus in Pakistan
As per report pakistan first-class cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz has passed away after testing positive for COVID-19. The 50 year old had been on a ventilator in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Peshawar for the last three days. Sarfraz has become the first professional cricketer to succumb to COVID-19 in Pakistan.
Sarfaraz had made his debut in 1988 and he went on to score 616 runs from 15 first-class games for Peshawar. He also managed to score 96 runs from six one-day games before retiring in 1994. He then took up the role of coaching both the senior and the Under-19 Peshawar teams in the mid-2000s.Zafar was the brother of pakistan international player Akhtar Sarfraz. Akhtar had passed away 10 months ago in the same city after a battle with colon cancer.Peshawar, a city in the north of the khyber pakhtunkhwa province, has 744 of the nearly 5500 active cases in the country.
Moreover if former pakistan captain Ramiz raja has his way, he will have the country's tainted cricketers "open grocery stores". Ramiz hit out at the pakistan cricket Board (PCB) for reintegrating players such as mohammad amir, who has served prison time and a long ban from the game for involvement in spot-fixing, into the national team setup. He said "You ask me I would say these tainted cricketers should open their grocery shops". The former opener felt allowing tainted players back into the sport has damaged pakistan cricket. Ramiz said he was concerned that the selectors are not able to find replacements for tainted players.