Yasir Arafat Satti was born 12 March 1982 in Rawalpindi. He is a Pakistani cricketer. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace.Yasir Arafat is an all-rounder of typically Pakistani ethos ideal for ODI cricket but also you suspect capable of occasionally critical feats in Test matches, though he is yet to play one. He is useful as a lower-order plunderer.

His type of straight, full, skiddy bowling courtesy a slingy action accounted for Andrew Flintoff's wicket at an ODI in Karachi in December 2005. It has also helped him to nine wickets against England in a warm-up game earlier during the same series and it once accounted for five wickets in six balls in a domestic game in December 2004 (four of the five were either leg-before or bowled), a feat performed by only three other bowlers. He can generate pace and when conditions are helpful and swing.

He has good experience of English conditions having played league cricket and for Scotland. In his first three games, he took 17 wickets with two five-wicket hauls as well as scoring a couple of fifties. He has been on the fringes of the Pakistan squad for a number of years though given the allrounders ahead of him.