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Pakistan have handed a debut to 38-year-old Asif Afridi for the second Test against South Africa in Rawalpindi, making him one of the oldest debutants in recent men's Test history.

Aged 38 years and 299 days as of today (October 20), Afridi has become the second-oldest men's Test debutant for Pakistan, going past Tabish Khan, who was aged 36 years 146 days when he debuted against Zimbabwe in 2021. The oldest Pakistani cricketer to debut in Test matches is Miran Bakhsh, who played his first match aged 47 years 284 days in 1955.

Bakhsh is also the second oldest male cricketer ever to make his Test debut after James Southerton who was 49 years 119 days old when he played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

Afridi is also the second oldest cricketer to make his men's Test debut in the 21st century after Ed Joyce, who was aged 39 years 231 days when he played in Ireland's first Test in 2019.

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Pakistan have handed a debut to 38-year-old Asif Afridi for the second Test against South Africa in Rawalpindi, making him one of the oldest debutants in recent men's Test history.
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If anyone ever tells you SA is chokers in history. Remind them India women lost a world cup final from this position.
 

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stefan9 said:
If anyone ever tells you SA is chokers in history. Remind them India women lost a world cup final from this position.

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Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, Only Test
Afghanistan tour of Zimbabwe

AFG 127 & 34/1 (12 ov)
ZIM 359
Ibrahim Zadran* 25(37)
Rahmanullah Gurbaz 7(24)
Brad Evans 0/3 (2.0 ov)
Day 2 - Afghanistan trail by 198 runs.

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Um, the SA mens team are the definition of chokers, irrespective of how you spin it. We won the tests trophy now and the mace on many occasions.

Knock outs, we have choked. Or are you disputing it?

Same as the Irish national rugby team

What point are you even trying to make?
 
Enzo Matrix said:
Um, the SA mens team are the definition of chokers, irrespective of how you spin it. We won the tests trophy now and the mace on many occasions.

Knock outs, we have choked. Or are you disputing it?

Same as the Irish national rugby team

What point are you even trying to make?
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Pasted the wrong thing now corrected.

But this is the biggest choke of all Time:
 

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Pasted the wrong thing now corrected.

But this is the biggest choke of all Time:
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By what measure?

The last t20 final was easily the biggest choke even by SA standards. We invented the concept. A brilliant boundary catch was all it took to collapse the best side in the tournament

Still no idea what you are actually trying to say
 
Enzo Matrix said:
By what measure?

The last t20 final was easily the biggest choke even by SA standards. We invented the concept. A brilliant boundary catch was all it took to collapse the best side in the tournament

Still no idea what you are actually trying to say
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Look at the score 38 from 44 with 7 wickets left in a final.
The SA choke was very bad but that side had a very long tail so its not on that India w final choke level.
 
Top order needs to do better but we finally have a tail, Radaba coming in at 11 is great. If we get on par its a great efford and if we can maybe inch a small lead it will be gold!
 
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