Who is Arafat Minhas? The 21-year-old's 59 and 6-40 crush England as Pakistan win again

Pakistan have won both their games in the ODI tri-series, and the second win had one name all over it: Arafat Minhas.

The match in short

On Tuesday, October 20, in Rawalpindi:

• Pakistan 302/9 in 50 overs
• England 215 all out in 38.4 overs
• Pakistan won by 87 runs. Minhas was Player of the Match.

The bat: rescuing Pakistan

Pakistan were in trouble at 133/5 after 27.3 overs. Minhas walked in and added 78 with Hasan Nawaz, then 72 with Faheem Ashraf, according to Gulf News.

• Minhas: 59 off 58 balls with nine fours, his first ODI half-century.
• Hasan Nawaz: 79 off 74 balls, his second ODI fifty.
• Faheem Ashraf chipped in with 39.

Those partnerships took Pakistan past 300.

The ball: England collapse

England’s chase started well. Tom Banton and Ben Duckett put on 91 for the first wicket, and England were 117/1 after 18 overs. Then Minhas came on and it fell apart. England lost their last nine wickets for 98 runs.

The left-arm spinner finished with 6 for 40 in 8.4 overs, his best ODI figures.

A fifty and a six-wicket haul in the same ODI is rare. Gulf News points to Shahid Afridi’s 76 and 7-12 against West Indies in 2013 as a famous Pakistani example.

Who is Arafat Minhas?

Minhas is 21 and this was only his fifth ODI. He already had a piece of history: on his ODI debut against Australia in May, he took 5-32 and became the first Pakistani men’s cricketer to take five wickets on ODI debut.

He is a genuine all-rounder: a left-arm spinner who can bat in the lower middle order. With the World Cup on the horizon, performances like this will put him firmly in the selectors’ thinking.

What’s next

Pakistan have beaten Sri Lanka by 37 runs and now England by 87. Upcoming fixtures:

• October 25: Pakistan vs England, Lahore
• October 27: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
• October 29: Sri Lanka vs England
• October 31: Final

Two from two, and a new young match-winner. Not a bad week to be a Pakistan fan.