Surrey signs Pakistani all-rounder Yasir Arafat for 2011
Test all-rounder from Pakistan, Yasir Arafat, has been signed by Surrey County for 2011 as its overseas player.
Arafat is considered as a valuable professional in the county circuit as he has played for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 since last 7 years. Shaun Tait would join Yasir Arafat in the Friends Provident T20 Tournament.
Yasir Arafat made his international debut against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in an ODI at Karachi in February 2000 but it took him 8 more years to make his Test debut.
The all-rounder completed 700 first-class wickets recently and is also named in the Guinness Book of World Records for most wickets in T20s.
Yasir was named in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s preliminary squad for the ICC World Cup 2011, however, he failed to find a spot in the final 15.
Arafat expressed his excitement about signing up for Surrey and working with its management. He said, "I am delighted to have the chance to play for Surrey next season and look forward to working with (Surrey cricket manager) Chris Adams again. It is a great
opportunity and I am looking forward to helping the club get back into the County Championship First Division and being a part of the county's future success".
Pakistani greats such as, Waqar Younis, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 in last couple of decades and Yasir Arafat is the latest inclusion in this list.
Surrey cricket manager, Chris Adams, also expressed happiness after signing Arafat and said, "Signing a player like Yasir Arafat will give us the stability that we have searched for in our overseas signing. I have spent much of the winter searching for that
elusive spin option to complement the squad but have been unable to find a suitable option. Having also factored in Chris Tremlett's emergence as a quality Test bowler I have opted for a different approach in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yasir-Arafat-c98241”.
Yasir Arafat has always been rated as a promising all-rounder in the domestic cricket of Pakistan and county circuit as well but never quite delivered at the international level. He grabbed a 5-wicket haul against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in his Test debut at Bangalore but
could not make any kind of an impression in the other two Tests that he played.
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