Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "محمد عرفان (کرکٹ کھلاڑی)" in Urdu language version.
He was born a farmer's son in the small village of Gaggu Mandi in the central Punjab province, where he found his height hard to cope with, even as one of five brothers all over six feet tall [...] His father, himself 6'9", advised him to be patient.
Irfan has been presented as a feelgood story to counter an era of cynicism. A year ago he was working in a plastic pipe factory.
