Danial Ibrahim Age, Stats, 923 FC Runs and 121*

Danial Ibrahim career statistics

It also records seven wickets and 11 catches.

The separate List A row records 430 runs and 13 wickets, while the T20 row records 47 runs. Each format stays separate and missing T20 bowling cells are omitted rather than guessed.

Danial Ibrahim youngest Championship fifty

Sussex's official contract release records Ibrahim making 55 on first-class debut against Yorkshire at 16 years and 299 days, becoming the youngest player to score a County Championship half-century. He followed it with another fifty in his second match.

The age record is tied to the County Championship and the date of the innings. The 55 is already included in his first-class aggregate and is not added again.

Danial Ibrahim 121 not out against Durham

Sussex's July 2025 extension announcement records Ibrahim making a career-best 121 not out against Durham, an innings that helped secure a draw. The later structured table retains 121 not out as his first-class high score.

An unbeaten high score is a single innings within the cumulative 923 runs. The asterisk records not out and is not an editorial footnote.

Danial Ibrahim Sussex contract and pathway

Sussex records Ibrahim joining its pathway at age ten, signing a full professional deal in 2021 and extending through at least the end of 2027 in July 2025. The club classifies him as a genuine all-rounder.

A contract confirms current association but not private pay, selection or fitness. The substantive batting and bowling rows support the all-rounder label independently of the contract wording.

Danial Ibrahim Second XI partnership with Charlie Tear

Sussex's official Charlie Tear feature records Ibrahim sharing a 446-run Second XI Championship stand with Tear in 2025. Tear finished unbeaten on 317, and the club described the partnership as a Sussex Second XI record and the second-largest stand in the competition's history at that point. Ibrahim's contribution is part of the partnership record even though the article's headline individual score belongs to Tear.

The stand also provides context for Ibrahim's return to the senior side. Sussex's later contract announcement said strong Second XI performances earned him another Championship opportunity before his 121 not out against Durham. The club did not attribute that recall to one innings alone, so the 446 partnership should be treated as visible evidence within a broader run of development cricket rather than the sole selection cause.

Second XI Championship runs do not enter first-class aggregates. The partnership is therefore a meaningful Sussex development achievement without changing Ibrahim's 923 senior first-class runs or 121-not-out career high. The same boundary applies to both players: 446 is the stand total, 317 not out is Tear's score, and neither number can be assigned to Ibrahim as an individual innings.

What did Danial Ibrahim show at Lord's in 2022?

Ibrahim contributed 36 in a 68-run partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara against Middlesex at Lord's in July 2022. Sussex's day-two report says Ibrahim helped Pujara regain control after a subdued start, batting either side of lunch before Toby Roland-Jones trapped him leg before. Pujara went on to make a double-century, so Ibrahim's innings was a supporting contribution within a much larger individual performance rather than the headline score of the day.

The partnership is useful evidence of red-ball temperament. Ibrahim was 17 and faced an experienced Middlesex attack while supporting a senior international batter. Thirty-six is not a fifty and should not be promoted into a milestone it did not reach, but the time and match situation show value beyond the raw number. It also adds a middle step between his record-breaking 2021 debut and the first-class centuries that followed.

This innings demonstrates why career development should not be reduced to debut records and hundreds. Smaller contributions can help build an innings, especially when a partner is occupying the crease for a major score. At the same time, one mature stand does not establish long-term consistency; it is best used as a documented example of Ibrahim handling responsibility early in his senior career.

Who is Danial Ibrahim?

Danial Ibrahim is an English all-rounder born in Burnley, Lancashire, on 9 August 2004. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast-medium for Sussex. The club has treated both skills as part of his role since his first full professional contract, although his senior record at the July 2026 cutoff is stronger with the bat in first-class cricket and more balanced across batting and bowling in List A matches.

Ibrahim entered the Sussex pathway at age ten and was still a Bede's School pupil when he broke into the first team. His senior identity is distinct from the various shortened versions of his name in older squad lists: Sussex uses both Dan and Danial in headlines, while the player record gives Danial Ibrahim. The birth date, playing style and career history all resolve to the same Sussex cricketer.

How did Danial Ibrahim reach the Sussex first team?

Sussex first included Ibrahim in a County Championship squad in June 2021 after he had progressed from under-10 cricket through the county youth system. The selection preview described him as a right-handed batter and seam bowler who had already made a Second XI debut. He then played against Yorkshire at Headingley aged 16, becoming Sussex's second-youngest first-class debutant and the youngest player to score a County Championship half-century.

The debut was not an isolated age record. Ibrahim followed 55 against Yorkshire with another fifty in his second match against Glamorgan, and Sussex's 2025 contract review credits him with three half-centuries during that breakthrough season. The early sequence matters because it shows that the county retained him on performance evidence, not only promise attached to his age.

What did Danial Ibrahim contribute in the 2021 One Day Cup?

Ibrahim played all seven of Sussex's Royal London Cup matches in 2021. The club's full-contract announcement records six wickets and a top score of 46 against Lancashire. Before the final group match, Sussex also identified him as their most economical seamer, conceding fewer than six runs per over across 29 overs while taking four wickets at that stage of the competition.

Those numbers provide the clearest early evidence for the all-rounder label. A top score of 46 is a meaningful lower- or middle-order contribution without being a fifty, while six wickets across seven appearances show regular bowling use. They belong to his 2021 campaign and are already contained in the later List A career row; adding them again to the 430 runs or 13 wickets would double-count the same matches.

How should Danial Ibrahim's first-class record be read?

At the 25 July 2026 cutoff, Ibrahim had scored 923 runs in 22 first-class matches at an average of 24.94. The record contained two hundreds, four fifties and a high score of 121 not out. That is enough cricket to establish meaningful milestones, but still a developing sample in which one long innings can move the average more sharply than it would for an established player with many seasons behind him.

His first-class bowling figures were more modest: seven wickets from 937 balls at an average of 87.28, with best figures of 2 for 9. Sussex's all-rounder classification remains valid because it describes his skill set and team use, but the senior first-class evidence at that date was batting-led. A reader should not infer equal output in both disciplines simply from the role label.

Why was the 121 not out against Durham important?

Ibrahim's unbeaten 121 against Durham in 2025 was his career-best first-class score and helped Sussex secure a draw in a Division One match. Sussex's contract announcement described the opposition as a high-quality bowling attack and linked the innings to his return from strong Second XI performances. The match therefore joined three useful facts: a promotion back into the first team, a personal high score and a result-saving contribution.

The not-out marker matters statistically. Because Ibrahim was not dismissed, the innings affects his batting average differently from a completed dismissal, and the asterisk in 121* should remain attached to the score. The 121 runs are already part of his 923-run first-class aggregate. They can be discussed as a defining innings without being added again as if they were separate from the career total.

What did Sussex's 2025 award recognize?

Sussex named Ibrahim its men's Most Improved Player at the club's end-of-season awards on 2 October 2025. The award page connects the recognition to his winter work and the first-class century at Durham. It also records that he had two first-class hundreds and four half-centuries by then, matching the milestone counts retained in the later July 2026 statistics snapshot.

Most Improved is a club award, not a national ranking or claim that he was Sussex's overall player of the season. The same awards list named James Coles as both the men's red-ball and white-ball player of the season. Keeping the categories distinct preserves the real meaning: Sussex recognized Ibrahim's development over 2025 rather than declaring him the club's leading performer in every format.

What did the 2027 contract extension confirm?

On 10 July 2025, Sussex announced that Ibrahim had extended his contract until at least the end of the 2027 season. The wording confirms his current county relationship and gives a minimum end point; it does not disclose salary, selection guarantees or private contract terms. The timing followed his return to the Championship side and the 121 not out against Durham.

Director of Cricket Paul Farbrace presented the return as a pathway example: strong Second XI work led to first-team opportunities, and Ibrahim then converted one of those opportunities into a hundred. That sequence is more informative than treating the extension as a standalone administrative event. It shows what the club said it was rewarding while leaving future appearances dependent on form, fitness and selection.

What do Danial Ibrahim's List A figures show?

Ibrahim's List A row at the July 2026 cutoff contains 430 runs and 13 wickets from 30 matches. He had three fifties, a batting high score of 56 and best bowling of 3 for 34. The batting average of 17.20 and bowling average of 46.92 show contributions in both disciplines, but neither figure supports presenting him as a dominant senior 50-over performer at that stage.

The format does, however, provide a broader bowling sample than his first-class record. He had delivered 714 balls and taken 13 List A wickets, compared with seven first-class wickets from 937 balls. The comparison shows how role and effectiveness can vary by format. It should not be converted into a claim that he is automatically better suited to one-day cricket, because selection, overs available and match situations differ.

What is the next test for Danial Ibrahim?

Ibrahim's record already contains a debut age milestone, two first-class hundreds and evidence of genuine two-skill use in List A cricket. The next test is consistency across a larger senior sample. A first-class batting average below 25 and seven wickets in 22 matches show that the Durham century and all-rounder potential had not yet become sustained output across every appearance.

There were encouraging signs beyond the century. Against Yorkshire in August 2025, Ibrahim resumed on the final morning and made 51, although Sussex lost by an innings and 128 runs. The innings cannot be detached from that heavy defeat, but it added another fifty against Division One opposition. With a contract through 2027, future judgment should focus on repeated contributions in match context rather than his age record alone.