Yasir Arafat (cricketer)

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Yasir Arafat
country = Pakistan
fullname = Yasir Arafat Satti
nickname = Yas
living = true
dayofbirth = 12
monthofbirth = 3
yearofbirth = 1982
placeofbirth = Rawalpindi, Punjab
countryofbirth = Pakistan
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right-arm medium
role = All-rounder
international = true
onetest = true
testdebutdate = 8 December
testdebutyear = 2007
testdebutagainst = India
testc

lasttestdate = 8 December
lasttestyear = 2007
lasttestagainst = India
odidebutdate = 13 February
odidebutyear = 2000
odidebutagainst = Sri Lanka
odic

lastodidate = 27 January
lastodiyear = 2008
lastodiagainst = Zimbabwe
odishirt = 27
club1 = Kent
year1 = 2007 – present
club2 = Rawalpindi
year2 = 1997 – present
club3 = Sussex
year3 = 2006
club4 = National Bank of Pakistan
year4 = 2005 – 2006
club5 = Khan Research Laboratories
year5 = 2000 – 2007
club6 = Pakistan Reserves
year6 = 1999 – 2000
deliveries = balls
columns = 4
column1 = Test
matches1 = 1
runs1 = 44
bat avg1 = 22.00
100s/50s1 = 0/0
top score1 = 44
deliveries1 = 315
wickets1 = 7
bowl avg1 = 30.00
fivefor1 = 1
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 5/161
catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
column2 = ODI
matches2 = 8
runs2 = 48
bat avg2 = 12.00
100s/50s2 = 0/0
top score2 = 27
deliveries2 = 294
wickets2 = 4
bowl avg2 = 68.50
fivefor2 = 0
tenfor2 = n/a
best bowling2 = 1/28
catches/stumpings2 = 1/–
column3 = FC
matches3 = 142
runs3 = 5,095
bat avg3 = 27.69
100s/50s3 = 4/28
top score3 = 122
deliveries3 = 23,547
wickets3 = 573
bowl avg3 = 23.55
fivefor3 = 32
tenfor3 = 3
best bowling3 = 7/102
catches/stumpings3 = 44/–
column4 = LA
matches4 = 175
runs4 = 1,979
bat avg4 = 21.05
100s/50s4 = 0/7
top score4 = 87
deliveries4 = 8,451
wickets4 = 289
bowl avg4 = 23.29
fivefor4 = 5
tenfor4 = n/a
best bowling4 = 6/24
catches/stumpings4 = 35/–
date = 11 October
year = 2008
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/10/10272/10272.html CricketArchive

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

International career

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. [ [http://www.cricinfo.com/iccct2006/content/current/story/263238.html Asif and Akhtar to return home] "Cricinfo.com"]

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. [ [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/281976.html Shoaib and Asif out of the World Cup] "Cricinfo.com" Retrieved 01 March 2007.]

On 8 December 2007, Arafat made his Test match debut for Pakistan against India in Bangalore in the third and final Test of the series. He displayed his all-round abilities by taking 7 wickets in the match including a 5-wicket haul, and scoring a useful 44 in the first innings.

It has been reported (2nd August, 2008, Hindustan Times, Karachi) that he has signed with the Kolkata Knight Riders to play in the second season of the Indian Premier League 20/20 tournament in 2009.

Domestic career

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.

The Kent fans seem to have immediately taken to Arafat. At their recent Friends Provident Trophy game against Surrey at The Brit Oval they often chanted of 'There's only one Yasir Arafat', later on, as a pun, 'There's only two Yasir Arafat's'. Others included 'We've nicked your tea towel', also in jest.

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, by Bill Copson in 1937, William Henderson in 1938, and Pat Pocock in 1972. Arafat was the only bowler to take the wickets spread over two innings. [ [http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/136023.html Yasir Arafat equals world record] "Cricinfo.com"]

Arafat is an old fashioned seam bowler and is able to swing the ball both to and from the batsman.

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