{"id":113894,"date":"2026-05-30T22:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=113894"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:18:05","slug":"arafat-minhas-breaks-42-year-old-national-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/arafat-minhas-breaks-42-year-old-national-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Arafat Minhas breaks 42-year old national record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan&#8217;s young spinner Arafat Minhas has created history in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/marshs-availability-uncertain-for-pakistan-odi-tour\/\">ODI<\/a> cricket by taking 5 wickets in his debut match and breaking a 42-year-old national record.<\/p>\n<p>Arafat Minhas took 5 wickets in his first match of his career against Australia in an ODI on Friday, thus becoming the first bowler from Pakistan to achieve this feat.<\/p>\n<p>He took 5 wickets for just 32 runs with one maiden in 10 overs. His wicket-taking average was 3.2.<\/p>\n<p>With this brilliant performance, Arafat Minhas broke the 42-year-old record of Zakaria Khan, who took 4 wickets for 19 runs in his first ODI against Sri Lanka in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Zakaria Khan held the record for the best bowling figures on ODI debut for Pakistan, while Abdul Qadir took 4 wickets for 21 runs against Sri Lanka in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan&#8217;s young spinner Arafat Minhas has created history in ODI cricket by taking 5 wickets in his debut match and breaking a 42-year-old national record. Arafat Minhas took 5 wickets in his first match of his career against Australia in an ODI on Friday, thus becoming the first bowler from Pakistan to achieve this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":113897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113898,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894\/revisions\/113898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}