KEIGHLEY Cricket Club held a special net session on Sunday morning for Pakistan's Champions Trophy-winning captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, who has signed for Yorkshire for the second half of the NatWest T20 Blast campaign.
"One of his entourage rang us up on Saturday to see if we could arrange it, and about 30 bowlers from the Asian community turned up to bowl at him," said Keighley Cricket Club's chairman Paul Barker.
"Sarfaraz batted for an hour and looked very good technically, and he hit the ball sweetly – like when you time a golf ball."
The 30-year-old, who was unveiled to the media last week at Bradford Park Avenue, has joined Shaun Marsh as one of Yorkshire's two overseas players, replacing Australian Peter Handscomb.
Sarfaraz made his debut in last Friday's one-run defeat to Durham at Chester-le-Street, and his next opportunity could come at home to Lancashire on Friday.
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