Shahid Afridi

Full name:          Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi

Born:                  March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency

Current age:      35 years 44 days

Playing role:      Allrounder

Batting style:      Right-hand bat

Bowling style:     Legbreak googly

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.

Batting stats:

            M         Inn       Runs    HS       Avg     SR       NO      100      50        4s         6s

Tests    27        48        1716    156      36.51   86.97   1          5          8          220      52

ODI     398      369      8064    124      23.58   117.01 27        6          39        729      351

T20I    77        71        1142    54        19.03   145.29 11        0          4          90        49

IPL      10        9          81        33        10.12   176.09 1          0          0          7          6

CL       2          2          14        14        7          70        0          0          0          1          0

Bowling stats:

            M         Inn       B          Runs    Wkts    BBI      BBM    Econ    Avg     SR       5W      10W

Tests    27        47        3194    1709    48        52 / 5   43 / 5   3.21     35.6     66.54   1          0

ODI     398      372      17670  13631  395      12 / 7   12 / 7   4.63     34.51   44.73   9          0

T20I    77        76        1682    1818    81        11 / 4   11 / 4   6.49     22.44   20.77   0          0

IPL      10        10        180      225      9          28 / 3   28 / 3   7.5       25        20        0          0

CL       2          2          48        49        2          23 / 1   23 / 1   6.12     24.5     24        0          0

Career:

Major Teams:           Hampshire, Pakistan, Asian Cricket Council XI, ICC World XI,

ODI debut:                Vs   at  Aga Khan Sports Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya

Last ODI:                  Vs   at  Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia

Test debut:                Vs   at  National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan

Last Test:                  Vs   at  Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, England

Twenty20 debut:       Vs   at  County Ground, Bristol, England

Last Twenty20:         Vs   at  Dubai Sports City Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

IPL Current Team:  Deccan Chargers

Previous Team:         Deccan Chargers

IPL Debut:                   Vs Delhi Daredevils (Apr 22, 2008)

IPL Last:                      Vs Chennai Super Kings (May 27, 2008)

Frofile:

 Shahid Afridi is a good allrounder player in the world,  he is as enigmatic a player as there ever was. He came as a 16-year-old into the Pakistan ODI squad and was unfazed by all the speculation regarding his real age. In only in his second ODI against Sri Lanka in 1996, he blasted his way to a 37-ball century. For more than 17 years, it remained the fastest century in the ODI format before Corey Anderson broke the record in January 2014. Afridi's sparkling ton came after he was sent in as a pinch-hitter at one drop and after being picked in the team as a leg-spinner to replace the injured Mushtaq Ahmed. 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. 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. 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.