A tall man at 6'4", Arshad bowls in a classical off-spinner's mould, preferring a nagging line to any great variation.
[2] In 2015, he moved to Sydney, Australia where he worked as a taxi driver for few years before going back to cricket as a coach.
[3] Arshad was first picked to play against the West Indies during the 1997–98 season, and the following year, was part of the team which won the Asian Test Championship at Dhaka against Sri Lanka.
[2] Four years later, a strong performance in the Pakistani domestic championship meant that Arshad earned a recall for Pakistan's 2005 tour of India.
[2][4] On 12 November 2020, he was appointed as bowling coach of Pakistan women's national cricket team.