http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yasir-Arafat-c98241 excited about playing for Canterbury this season – Cricket News Update
Discarded Pakistani all-rounder, Yasir Arafat has signed a contract with the New Zealand domestic team, Canterbury for the upcoming T20 tournament. The all-rounder is very excited to do well in New Zealand and claimed that he is very good form at the moment.
Arafat came through the ranks of junior cricket in Pakistan but has failed to cement his place in the national team, even though he was tipped by many cricket analysts to replace Abdul Razzaq as the leading all-rounder in the national team.
The cricketer from Rawalpindi has been playing county cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-Research-Laboratories-c804 (KRL ) in the domestic cricket of Pakistan.
Arafat said that he is happy that he got a chance to play in the domestic cricket of New Zealand. The all-rounder has previously represented Otago in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 and has done quite well in past.
Yasir said, "I'm delighted to have signed for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Otago-c829 two seasons ago which I thoroughly enjoyed. My time in New Zealand last time around was very pleasant. The standard of cricket was very good.”
While talking about his brilliant performances in the domestic cricket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, Arafat said that he is at the acme of his game at the moment with both bat and ball and wants to carry on with the good work.
The all-rounder faced some injury issues in the English county season this year but now he is perfectly fine once again.
"I'm averaging over 50 with the bat in the Quaid E Azam Trophy and I've taken 16 wickets in 5 matches at an average of under 15, so all in all the form is decent and the injury niggles I had towards the end of the English County season with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 are thankfully
behind me”, he added.
At the present moment, Pakistan is in need of a quality all-rounder because http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Razzaq-c41623 seems to be at the twilight of his career at the moment. Apart from a deceptive fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower order batsman, Arafat is also a very safe fielder.
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