{"id":88827,"date":"2025-10-20T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=88827"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:12:10","slug":"asif-afridi-becomes-second-oldest-test-debutant-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/asif-afridi-becomes-second-oldest-test-debutant-for-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Asif Afridi becomes second oldest Test debutant for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Left-arm spinner Asif Afridi made his long-awaited Test debut for Pakistan in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/noman-ali-spins-pakistan-to-victory-against-south-africa\/\">second Test match<\/a> against South Africa, making it into the list of the oldest debutants.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi, age 38 years and 299 days, replaced pacer Hassan Ali for the second Test in Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Shaheen Shah Afridi represented debut cap to Asif.<\/p>\n<p>With his debut, he became Pakistan\u2019s second-oldest Test player to receive a debut cap for the country since Miran Baksh, who debuted at the age of 47 in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, Afridi\u2019s debut also stands out. He is now the second-oldest Test debutant of the 21st century, behind Ireland\u2019s Ed Joyce, who made his debut in 2019 at 39 years and 231 days.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">He made his first-class debut back in 2009 and, since then,<\/span>\u00a0represented FATA Region and holds an impressive first-class record of 198 wickets in 57 matches at an economy rate of 2.92, including 13 five-wicket hauls and two ten-wicket match hauls.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the standout performer in the Hanif Mohammad Trophy 2025-26, finishing as the leading wicket-taker with 33 wickets in five matches at an economy rate of 2.33.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Left-arm spinner Asif Afridi made his long-awaited Test debut for Pakistan in the second Test match against South Africa, making it into the list of the oldest debutants. Afridi, age 38 years and 299 days, replaced pacer Hassan Ali for the second Test in Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Shaheen Shah Afridi represented debut cap to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":88835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88827","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\/88827","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88837,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88827\/revisions\/88837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}