{"id":9964,"date":"2011-09-21T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/09\/21\/wedding-joy-for-pakistan-cricketer\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:32:37","slug":"wedding-joy-for-pakistan-cricketer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/21\/wedding-joy-for-pakistan-cricketer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding joy for Pakistan cricketer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Star-studded reception as Yasir Arafat ties the knot<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"247\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/YasirArafatwedding_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>NEWLY wed Pakistan cricketer Yasir Arafat has revealed the joy of getting married was even better than making his debut for Pakistan!<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The cricketer was all smiles as he married Fatima Sheikh in a star-studded ceremony on Sunday at the Oval cricket ground \u2013 home of his current team Surrey County Cricket Club.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The couple looked stunning in traditional Asian wedding attire created by London based designer Raahat. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The wedding marked a victorious personal \u2018hatrick\u2019 for Yasir starting with Surrey\u2019s promotion in the County Championship from Division 2 to Division 1, followed by his participation in Surrey&#8217;s victory over Somerset on Saturday and the icing on the cake &#8211; his wedding on Sunday. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Undoubtedly, the weekend is the biggest of my life,\u201d Yasir said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThere have been some huge occasions such as my debut for Pakistan, but of course marriage is such an important and big occasion.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A host of cricketing stars \u2013 including Azhar Mahmood, Saqlain Mushtaq and former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, joined in on the wedding festivities.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Yasir added: \u201cI&#8217;m really pleased that so many friends and family members attended the function and I request all of them and my fans around the world to pray for a happy and successful future.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star-studded reception as Yasir Arafat ties the knot &#13; &#13; &#13; NEWLY wed Pakistan cricketer Yasir Arafat has revealed the joy of getting married was even better than making his debut for Pakistan! &#13; The cricketer was all smiles as he married Fatima Sheikh in a star-studded ceremony on Sunday at the Oval cricket ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}