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Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age 28 years 77 days
Major teams Pakistan,Asia XI,Deccan Chargers,Griqualand West,Habib Bank Limited,ICC World XI,Karachi,Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Legbreak googly
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
26
46
1
1683
156
37.40
1954
86.13
5
8
216
50
10
0
ODIs
258
243
15
5413
109
23.74
4864
111.28
4
29
501
247
90
0
T20Is
11
10
0
168
39
16.80
99
169.69
0
0
15
8
3
0
First-class
104
172
4
5365
164
31.93
12
27
67
0
List A
337
319
17
7665
112
25.38
5
46
107
0
Twenty20
28
24
1
366
49
15.91
211
173.45
0
0
32
21
7
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
26
45
3092
1640
47
5/52
5/43
34.89
3.18
65.7
1
1
0
ODIs
258
234
10418
8014
229
5/11
5/11
34.99
4.61
45.4
2
2
0
T20Is
11
11
249
280
15
4/19
4/19
18.66
6.74
16.6
1
0
0
First-class
104
12498
6377
240
6/101
26.57
3.06
52.0
8
0
List A
337
13968
10700
318
5/11
5/11
33.64
4.59
43.9
3
4
0
Twenty20
28
28
576
660
33
4/19
4/19
20.00
6.87
17.4
1
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Pakistan v Australia at Karachi, Oct 22-26, 1998 scorecard
Last Test
England v Pakistan at Manchester, Jul 27-29, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Kenya v Pakistan at Nairobi (Aga), Oct 2, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v Bangladesh at Karachi, Apr 19, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
England v Pakistan at Bristol, Aug 28, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I
Pakistan v Bangladesh at Karachi, Apr 20, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1995/96
Last First-class
Sind v Punjab (Pakistan) at Karachi, Mar 11-13, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1995/96
Last List A
Pakistan v Bangladesh at Karachi, Apr 19, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Kent v Middlesex at Maidstone, Jul 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers at Delhi, May 15, 2008 scorecard
Profile
In cricket, Shahid Afridi is the maddest of mad maxes. A flamboyant allrounder introduced to international cricket as a 16-year-old legspinner, he surprised everyone but himself by pinch-hitting the fastest one-day hundred in his maiden innings. Afridi is a compulsive shot-maker and although until 2004 it was too often his undoing, causing him to float in and out of the team, a combination of maturity on and off the field and a sympathetic coach in Bob Woolmer, saw Afridi blossom into one of modern-day cricket's most dangerous players and a vital cog in Pakistan's revival in 2005. A string of incisive contributions from June 2004 culminated in a violent century against India in Kanpur in April 2005; remarkably it was the joint second fastest ODI century in terms of balls faced. A few weeks before, by smashing the joint second fastest Test half-century at Bangalore and taking crucial last day wickets, Afridi had helped Pakistan memorably level the Test series. So his year continued; a Test century against the West Indies and contributions against England at the end of the year. He went berserk against India on the flattest of pitches with two centuries, including a Test best 156 in January 2006. An Afridi virtuoso is laced with fearless lofted drives and short-arm jabs over midwicket. He is at his best when forcing straight and at his weakest pushing at the ball just outside off. The biggest improvement has been in Afridi's legspin; previously underrated, they are now integral in the ODI side and curiously effective at key moments in Tests. When the conditions are with him, he gets turn as well as some lazy drift, but his box of tricks is the key, boasting a vicious faster ball and a conventional off-spinner as well. His allround skills are completed by agile fielding and among the strongest arms in the game; he also possesses the firmest handshake in international cricket. Again he shocked everyone but himself when, after finally becoming a fixture in the Pakistan side, and a thrillingly bombastic one at that, he announced a temporary 'retirement' from Test cricket, citing an increasingly heavy playing schedule. To less surprise, he retracted his retirement two weeks later. Since then he has been dropped again from the Test team in England and his place in the ODI side has been in flux. He remains, though, an original and a dangerous one at that and in the absence of Inzamam, Yousuf and Razzaq, one of the senior-most players in the team.
Kamran Abbasi September 2007
