Yasir Arafat (cricketer)

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	Tests	ODIs
Yasir Arafat Pakistan (Pak)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
Matches	-	7
Runs scored	-	48
Batting average	-	12.00
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	-	27
Balls bowled	-	234
Wickets	-	4
Bowling average	-	58.25
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	1/28
Catches/stumpings	-/-	1/-
As of 1 November 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Yasir Arafat Satti (born 12 March 1982 in Rawalpindi, Punjab) is a Pakistani cricketer. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace, his speciality.

Having previously represented his country at Under-15 level, he made his ODI debut for Pakistan in 2000 when he was 17 years old against Sri Lanka in Karachi and took his first wicket in this match. He played just one more match the following year before being dropped. He was given a second chance at international cricket in the last ODI against England in December 2005 and was retained for the series against India in February 2006, but was left out of the ODI squad for the subsequent tour in England. His next chance at international cricket came in the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy when he was one of the players called up to the Pakistan squad for the Champions Trophy to replace Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif who had both failed drug tests [1].

In March 2007, he and Mohammad Sami were called up as replacements in Pakistan's squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup after Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were ruled out through injury.^[1]

In English domestic cricket, he was signed as an overseas player for Scotland as a replacement for Rahul Dravid, and played for them in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. He was signed as an overseas player for Sussex for the 2006 season to line-up alongside fellow countrymen Mushtaq Ahmed and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, and helped the team to win the double of the County Championship and the C&G Trophy as well as mount a serious challenge in the Pro40 League. He was signed up to play for Kent in the 2007 season.

In 2004, Arafat performed the extremely rare feat of taking five wickets in six balls for Rawalpindi against the national champions Faisalabad in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. This had only been achieved three times previously in the entire history of first-class cricket.

[edit] References

^ Shoaib and Asif out of the World Cup: Cricinfo.com Retrieved 01 March 2007.

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Pakistan squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup

Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament.
Mushtaq Ahmed acted as temporary coach for Pakistan's final group game following the death of Bob Woolmer.