Shahid Afridi is an international Pakistani professional cricketer. He is a former captain of the National cricket team Pakistan. His full or real name is Shahid Khan Afridi. In fact, he has a record for taking more wickets 97 and most awards have got in Twenty20 International cricket.
His important record has in the fastest century in 37 balls of ODI cricket team. Presently, Afridi is getting the chart of the most T20 international wickets by 92 wickets from the 92 matches. Afridi announced his retirement from the international cricket on 19 February in 2017.
He is the owner of the Shahid Afridi Foundation and Philanthropist. In fact, he is an all-rounder and important bowler of the Pakistan team.
Afridi nickname is Boom Boom Afridi. Already, he has played 66 ODI cricket teams. Afridi made his maiden Test cricket century his scoring 141 runs off 191 balls in the same match he took also three wickets for 54 runs. In 2001 Afridi made his five first-class matches he scored 295 runs were including the highest score of 164 runs that average 42.14 and he took 11 wickets. He made his third test innings against India scoring in a second-innings half-century and taking five wickets in the match.
Afridi cricket career
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His height is 6 feet 0 inches. Anyway, Afridi first test cricket was playing on 22 October 1998 against Australia team and last test match has played 13 July 2010 against Australia. Besides, his first ODI or One Day International cricket match has played 2 October 1996 against Kenya. And also, the first T20 international cricket was playing on 28 August 2006 against England. Afridi was the captain of all forms of cricket before the Sarfraz Ahmed captain.
In fact, Afridi batting style is Right-handed batsman and also bowling system Right-arm leg-spin. Generally, he is one of the most important and powerful cricketers of Pakistan. He was born on 1 march in 1980.
Besides, the Internet user will get here Afridi of batting and bowling average, height, age, personal life, wife, wiki, girlfriends and also more information.
In truth, he is an all-rounder of the Pakistan cricket team. In this circumstance, his batting average respectively tests cricket batting average 36.51 and T20I cricket batting average is 19.03 and also his ODI match batting average 23.57.
Then his bowling average respectively, test cricket bowling average 35.70 and T20 international match bowling average 23.71 and also ODI cricket bowling average is 34.51.
Pakistan team has selected to play ICC 2019 Cricket World Cup But, they didn’t proclaimed their final squad.
Shahid Afridi Cricketer of career
Real name: Shahid Khan Afridi
Nickname: Boom Boom Afridi, Lala
His playing teams: St Kitts and News Patriots, South Australia, Ruhuna Royals, Rangpur Riders, Peshawar Zalmi, Northamptonshire, Melbourne Renegades, Leicestershire,
Kowloon Cantons, Karachi Region Blues, XI Karachi, ICC World XI, Hampshire,Habib Bank Limited, Griqualand West, Fly Emirates XI, Dhaka Gladiators, Deccan Chargers, Asia XI and Pakistan
First test debut: 22 October 1998 against Australia team
First ODI debut: 2 October 1996 against Kenya
And first T20I debut: 28 August 2006 against England
Shahid Afridi Batting style: Right-handed
Bowling style: Right-arm leg-spin
Playing rule: Allrounder
Afridi Batting and bowling average
His batting average details are given below
Match Name | Innings, match | Runs | Average |
---|---|---|---|
ODI series | innings-369, match-398 | 8064 | 23.57 |
Test series | 48, 27 | 1716 | 36.51 |
First Class | 185, 113 | 5695 | 31.46 |
T20 I series | 90, 98 | 1405 | 18.01 |
Afridi bowling average details are
Match Name | Innings, match | Balls | Runs | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|
ODI series | innings-372, match-398 | 17670 | 13632 | 34.51 |
Test series | 47, 27 | 3194 | 1709 | 35.60 |
First Class | -, 113 | 13657 | 7098 | 26.68 |
T20 I series | 96, 98 | 2144 | 2362 | 24.35 |
Shahid Afridi age, height, and personal details
Profession: Cricket
Height in cm & m: 182cm and 1.82m
Height in feet inches: 6 feet 0 inches or 6’0”
Weight in kg: 77 kg
Hair color: Light brown
Eye color: Black
Date of birth: 1 March 1980
Afridi age: [showcurrentage month=”March” day=”1″ year=”1980″ template=”9″]
Birth Place: Khyber Agency, FATA, in Pakistan
Religion: Islam
School or college life: Not known
Nationality: Pakistani
Shahid Afridi Family, wife, and favorite things
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Mother name: Not known
Father name: Late Sahabzada Fazal-ur Rehman Afridi
Brother name: Tariq Afridi, Iqbal Afridi, Ashfaq Afridi, Shoaib Afridi.
And sister name: four sisters
Marital status: Married
Favorite bowler and batsman: Chris Gayle and Wasim Akram and Imran Khan
Girlfriends name: Nadia Afridi
Shahid Afridi wife: Nadia Afridi
Son name or Children: Daughter- Aqsa, Arisha, Ajwa, and Asmara.
Salary: Not known
Shahid Afridi PCL: Ruhuna Royals
Afridi BPL: Dhaka Gladiators, Rangpur Riders
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