Irfan Pathan played for the inaugural List A cricket.
These performances propelled Pathan into the India A team at the age of 17 and a half, for a tour of Sri Lanka, where he took six wickets at 35
 Pathan found success with the ball in the Third Test in Karachi, when on 29 January he became the first  and to date only  person to claim a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match

