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Shahid Afridi      

Pakistan

Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi

Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency

Current age 33 years 343 days

Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Deccan Chargers, Dhaka Gladiators, Fly Emirates XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, Hampshire, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire, Melbourne Renegades, South Australia

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

Relation Brother - Tariq Afridi, Brother - Ashfaq Afridi

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	27	48	1	1716	156	36.51	1973	86.97	5	8	220	52	10	0
ODIs	373	345	23	7516	124	23.34	6529	115.11	6	35	679	323	119	0
T20Is	70	65	10	1044	54*	18.98	730	143.01	0	4	85	41	20	0
First-class	111	183	4	5631	164	31.45			12	30			75	0
List A	473	440	27	10284	124	24.90			8	54			144	0
Twenty20	141	126	15	2188	80	19.71	1429	153.11	0	7	179	102	37	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	27	47	3194	1709	48	5/52	5/43	35.60	3.21	66.5	1	1	0
ODIs	373	347	16346	12589	375	7/12	7/12	33.57	4.62	43.5	4	9	0
T20Is	70	69	1520	1643	73	4/11	4/11	22.50	6.48	20.8	3	0	0
First-class	111		13493	7023	258	6/101		27.22	3.12	52.2		8	0
List A	473		20885	16072	489	7/12	7/12	32.86	4.61	42.7	5	11	0
Twenty20	141	140	3043	3323	166	5/20	5/20	20.01	6.55	18.3	4	1	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Pakistan v Australia at Karachi, Oct 22-26, 1998 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v Pakistan at Lord's, Jul 13-16, 2010 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Kenya v Pakistan at Nairobi (Aga), Oct 2, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Abu Dhabi, Dec 25, 2013 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	England v Pakistan at Bristol, Aug 28, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Dubai (DSC), Dec 13, 2013 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1995/96
Last First-class	Australia v Pakistan at Lord's, Jul 13-16, 2010 scorecard
List A debut	1995/96
Last List A	Habib Bank Limited v Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited at Lahore, Jan 19, 2014 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Kent v Middlesex at Maidstone, Jul 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Dubai (DSC), Dec 13, 2013 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
3/28, 0	Habib Bank	v ZTBL	Lahore	19 Jan 2014	LA
0/37	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Abu Dhabi	25 Dec 2013	ODI # 3448
2, 1/41	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Sharjah	22 Dec 2013	ODI # 3447
30*, 2/46	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Dubai (DSC)	20 Dec 2013	ODI # 3446
34, 2/30	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Sharjah	18 Dec 2013	ODI # 3445
0/25, 28	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Dubai (DSC)	13 Dec 2013	T20I # 351
1/20, 39*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Dubai (DSC)	11 Dec 2013	T20I # 350
1/24, 1*	Pakistan	v Afghanistan	Sharjah	8 Dec 2013	T20I # 349
11, 2/38	Pakistan	v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	27 Nov 2013	ODI # 3440
26, 1/34	Pakistan	v South Africa	Cape Town	24 Nov 2013	ODI # 3438

Profile

Of Shahid Afridi it can safely be said that cricket never has and never will see another like him. To say he is an allrounder is to say Albert Einstein was a scientist; it tells a criminally bare story.

For a start, the slant of his all-round skills only became clear ten years into his career; he is a leg-spinning allrounder. Variety is his calling and as well as a traditional leg-break, he has two googlies, a conventional offie and a lethal faster one, though this is increasingly rare. All come with the threat of considerable, late drift. He fairly hustles through overs, which in limited-over formats is a weapon in itself and the package is dangerous.

But forever associated with him will be his madcap batting, the prospect of which is a crowd-puller the world over. He is a compulsive basher, literally unable to control his urges to slog every ball that comes his way, and not much of it is classical. Often spectacular results are at hand; he owns, for example, two of the fastest ODI hundreds, including the fastest one ever in his first innings ever at the age of 16. His career strike rates are nearly unmatched. But mostly, anywhere in the order, consistency has been missing.

Despite a healthy Test career, he gave up on the format in 2006, pre-empting men such as Andrew Flintoff, to maximise fully a limited-overs career. He came back, in inimitable fashion, for one Test only, as captain no less in 2010. A loss and two slogs meant he re-retired immediately after. Twenty20 is something he could've been made for and he is among the most lethal players of the format, having been player of the tournament for the inaugural edition of the World Twenty20 in 2007 and led Pakistan to the title two years later with matchwinning all-round hands in the semi and final.

Maturity has often threatened to gatecrash his career and leadership was a just reward, though it was taken away from him in 2011 after an immature spat; another retirement was announced but none of it will change much a truly unique career.