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Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi
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Afridi during Pakistan's tour of New Zealand in December 2010
Personal information
Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born (1980-03-01) 1 March 1980 (age 36)
Khyber, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Nickname Boom Boom Afridi, Lala
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm leg spin
Role All-rounder
Relations Javed Afridi (Cousin)
International information
National side
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 Aug 2006 v England
Last T20I 25 March 2016 v Australia
T20I shirt no. 10
Domestic team information
Years Team
1995–Present Karachi Region & Karachi Dolphins
1997–Present Habib Bank Limited
2001 Leicestershire
2003 Derbyshire
2003–04 Griqualand West
2004 Kent
2007–2008 Sind
2010 Southern Redbacks
2008 Deccan Chargers
2011–2012 Hampshire
2011 Melbourne Renegades
2011–2012 Dhaka Gladiators
2012 Ruhuna Royals
2016 - present Peshawar Zalmi (squad no. 10)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 27 398 82 112
Runs scored 1,716 8,064 1,218 5,689
Batting average 36.51 23.57 19.03 31.60
100s/50s 5/8 6/39 0/4 12/31
Top score 156 124 54* 164
Balls bowled 3,194 17,670 1,790 13,549
Wickets 48 395 83 263
Bowling average 35.60 34.51 23.71 26.80
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/– 20/– 77/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1 March 2015
Pride of Performance Award Recipient
Date 2010
Country Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Presented by Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: شاہدآفریدی‎; Pashto: شاهد اپریدی‎; born 1980) is a Pakistani professional cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. He also holds a record of taking most wickets (97) and most player-of-the match awards in Twenty20 International cricket.

He is known for his aggressive batting style, and previously held the record for the fastest ODI century in 37 deliveries. He also holds the distinction of having hit the most number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket,. Afridi considers himself a better bowler than batsman, and has taken 48 Test wickets and over 350 in ODIs. Currently Afridi is leading the chart of most T20I wickets with 92 wickets from 92 matches. Afridi currently is the President for PSL team Peshawar Zalmi which is owned by his cousin Javed Afridi.

Afridi is a philanthropist and owner of the Shahid Afridi Foundation. In 2015, Afridi was named among the top 20 most charitable athletes in the world by Do Something.

Afridi was born on 1 March 1980 in Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. He is from the Afridi tribe of Pashtuns. He is cousin of Javed Afridi, CEO of Haier Pakistan. Afridi is married to Nadia and has four daughters.


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