Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi (Urdu: شاہدآفریدی‎), born on 1 March 1977)^[4] is a Pakistani cricketer. He played 27 Tests, 350 One Day Internationals, and 59 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) for the Pakistani national team between 1996 and 2012. He first played a ODI match on 2 October 1996 against Kenya. He played his first Test match on 22 October 1998 against Australia.

Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi in August 2017
Personal information
Full name	Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born	(1977-03-01) 1 March 1977 (age 47) Khyber, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Nickname	Afridi,[1] Lala[2]
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[3]
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm leg spin
Role	All-rounder
Relations	Irfan Afridi (nephew)
International information
National side	Pakistan (1996–2018)
Test debut (cap 153)	22 October 1998 v Australia
Last Test	13 July 2010 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 109)	2 October 1996 v Kenya
Last ODI	20 March 2015 v Australia
ODI shirt no.	10
T20I debut (cap 8)	28 August 2006 v England
Last T20I	31 May 2018 v West Indies
T20I shirt no.	10
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1995/96–2003/04	Karachi[upper-alpha 1]
1997/98–2016/17	Habib Bank Limited
2004/05–2014/15	Karachi Dolphins
2007/08–2008/09	Sindh
2011–2012	Hampshire
2016–2017	Peshawar Zalmi (squad no. 10)
2016–2017	Hampshire
2018/19–2019/20	Multan Sultans (squad no. 10)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 27 398 99 113 Runs scored 1,716 8,064 1,416 5,695 Batting average 36.51 23.57 17.92 31.46 100s/50s 5/8 6/39 0/4 12/31 Top score 156 124 54* 164 Balls bowled 3,194 17,670 2,168 13,657 Wickets 48 395 98 266 Bowling average 35.60 34.51 24.44 26.68 5 wickets in innings 1 9 0 8 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 5/52 7/12 4/11 6/101 Catches/stumpings 10/– 127/– 30/– 78/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1 June 2018
Pride of Performance Award Recipient Date 2010 Country Islamic Republic of Pakistan Presented by Islamic Republic of Pakistan

On 4 October 1996, Afridi scored the fastest ODI century in just 37 balls.^[5] He held this record for 12 years, until Corey Anderson broke it in 2013.^[6] He scored 32 runs in a single over, the sixth highest scoring over ever in an ODI.^[7] He has also hit the most number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket.^[8] He holds the record of most wickets in T20 from Pakistan. Indian former cricketer Ravi Shastari gave him the title of "Boom Boom".

References

1. Not every team that Shahid has played for are listed here. Those that he played for in only one season have been omitted.

1. "Shahid Afridi reveals name of Indian cricketer behind his nickname ‘Boom Boom’". Retrieved 10 September 2018
2. "ICC World Twenty20 teams guide". BBC Sport. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
3. "Shahid Afridi Profile – ICC Ranking, Age, Career Info & Stats". Cricbuzz.
4. Steer, Duncan, Shahid Afridi: the story of my life, Spin: The Cricket Magazine, archived from the original on 30 April 2011, retrieved 27 February 2011
5. "#OnThisDay: Afridi smashed world record of fastest ODI century". Pakistan Today.
6. "Corey Anderson: Fastest 100 for New Zealand batsman", BBC.
7. "One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Most runs off one over". Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
8. "One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Most sixes in career". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2010.

Other websites

Media related to Shahid Afridi at Wikimedia Commons

• Shahid Afridi Archived 2013-03-01 at the Wayback Machine Profile on Cricket.com.pk
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