{"id":92469,"date":"2025-11-30T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=92469"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:13:20","slug":"salman-ali-agha-breaks-world-record-overshadow-rahul-dravid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/salman-ali-agha-breaks-world-record-overshadow-rahul-dravid\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Ali Agha breaks world record, overshadow Rahul Dravid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan T20 captain Salman Ali Agha has set a world record for playing the most international matches in a calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>He surpassed legends like Rahul Dravid, Ms Dhoni and Muhammad Yousuf.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan have played a total of 56 international matches in 2025, the most by any team this year, Agha is the only player who play all these matches in this year.<\/p>\n<p>First time in the history, the feat of surpassing 50 matches in single year achieved by Sachin Tendulkar in 1997, and most recently by New Zealand\u2019s Daryl Mitchell, who played 51 games in 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Most international matches in a calendar year<\/h3>\n<p>Salman Ali Agha (Pakistan) \u2013 56, 2025<br \/>\nRahul Dravid (India) \u2013 53, 1999<br \/>\nMohammad Yousuf (Pakistan) \u2013 53, 2000<br \/>\nMS Dhoni (India\/Asia XI) \u2013 53, 2007<br \/>\nLance Klusener (South Africa) \u2013 52, 2000<br \/>\nPaul Collingwood (England) \u2013 52, 2007<br \/>\nAngelo Mathews (Sri Lanka) \u2013 52, 2014<br \/>\nSachin Tendulkar (India) \u2013 51, 1997<br \/>\nDaryl Mitchell (New Zealand) \u2013 51, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan T20 captain Salman Ali Agha has set a world record for playing the most international matches in a calendar year. He surpassed legends like Rahul Dravid, Ms Dhoni and Muhammad Yousuf. Pakistan have played a total of 56 international matches in 2025, the most by any team this year, Agha is the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":90973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4099],"class_list":["post-92469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-salman-ali-agha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92470,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469\/revisions\/92470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}