Dan Ibrahim wrote himself into the record books last week as the youngest person to score a fifty in the County Championship since its inception in 1890 in the match between Yorkshire and Sussex at Headingley.
The previous record was held by Bilal Shafayat for his knock against Middlesex in 2001 but Ibrahim, who will turn 17 in August beat him by the margin of 61 days.
Originally from Burnley, the talented Sussex all-rounder is alumni of Bede’s School with his cricketing education being supplied at the beautiful ground of Preston Nomads CC in the shadow of the Devil’s Dyke and the South Do...