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Arafat Minhas delivers with bat and ball against England

A maiden ODI fifty and a six-wicket haul put Minhas at the center of Sports TV's Pakistan-England coverage.

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Sports TV Story of October 21, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,107,085 views a day, 320 times a normal first day on this channel (6,588).

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1:24Fakhar Zaman falls to the first ball, with a video review confirming the catch.
4:00Will Jacks bowls Babar Azam, leaving Pakistan at 59/3.
8:21Hassan Nawaz reaches his half-century as Pakistan rebuilds.
12:42Arafat Minhas brings up his maiden ODI fifty, helping Pakistan reach 302/9.
15:36Tom Banton and Ben Duckett begin England's chase of 303.
19:38Minhas removes Banton, then bowls Harry Brook shortly afterward.

Pakistan lost a wicket to the very first ball, but Sports TV's Pakistan-England highlights soon become a story of rebuilding, with Hassan Nawaz and Arafat Minhas giving the innings a different shape.

The full-match highlights drew about 1.4 million views in 11 hours, far beyond the channel's usual opening day for regular videos. The live coverage, another highlights edit and a separate package of Minhas' six wickets also made unusually fast starts.

At Rawalpindi, England chooses to bowl and gets an immediate reward: Gus Atkinson removes Fakhar Zaman after a reviewed catch. Babar Azam later loses his stumps to Will Jacks, leaving Pakistan with an innings to repair.

Nawaz supplies a half-century before Craig Overton bowls him. Minhas then reaches his maiden ODI fifty, helping Pakistan set England a substantial chase. His contribution does not stop when he puts the bat down: the highlights show him removing a settled Tom Banton, then bowling Harry Brook.

Sports TV gives that bowling performance its own six-wicket video and a Short focused on the final pair of wickets. In the full highlights' comments, viewers repeatedly single out Minhas and Nawaz. Another thread looks beyond the individual performances to the pitch, with viewers discussing the opportunities it offered batters, fast bowlers and spinners.

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What viewers say

Hasan nawaz what a player
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A big shoutout to the PCB and the pitch curator for preparing such an excellent cricket pitch
In an era where even 400 run totals are being chased down with ease, this was a refreshing sight. A genuinely balanced surface that had something to offer everyone batters, fast bowlers, and spinners alike.
This is exactly the kind of pitch cricket needs..
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ARAFAT MINHAS RESPECT
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