Afridi History

It can easily be said that cricket never has and never will see another like him. For a start, the slant of his all-round skills only became clear ten years into his career.Shahid Afridi is a leg-spinning all rounder. 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.
Shahid Khan Afridi is a cricket player for the Pakistan National team. He exploded on to the cricket scene by scoring the fastest century in ODIs in his very first innings. He was initially selected as a bowler but after his big hitting in his 1st innings, Afridi focused more on his batting. In recent years he has gone back to focusing on his bowling.
In October 1996 at the age of sixteen,Shahid Afridi in his match against Sri Lanka,Afridi broke the record for fastest century in ODI cricket, reaching to his first hundred in 37 balls. The eleven sixes he struck also equaled the record for most in an ODI innings.He was just 16 years and 217 days old,  he became the youngest player to score an ODI century.

Shahid Afridi made his Test debut in the third game of a three-match series against Australia on 22 October 1998.In this match,he didn't played much special as he played in his first ODI match, but soon he also develop himself as test player and score centuries with different countries.

On debuting against England on 28 August in 2006, Shahid Afridi not accomplish as a T20 player but in he find himself as T20 player and in ICC Twenty20 World Cup, held in England in 2009,Shahid Afridi performed brilliantly in the series scoring 50 runs in the semi-final and 54 in the final and leading his team to victory.


"Cricket is not cricket without Shahid Afridi" 
                   Michael A.Holding