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Shahid Afridi

Pakistan

Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age 27 years 6 days
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited,
ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Legbreak googly

Statsguru Test player, ODI player

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	237	225	10	4982	109	23.17	4588	108.58	4	27	467	224	83	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	2	0	35	28	17.50	27	129.62	0	0	5	1	0	0
First-class	94	160	4	4939	164	31.66			12	23			60	0
List A	312	297	12	7072	112	24.81			5	43			99	0
Twenty20	11	9	0	153	49	17.00	96	159.37	0	0			2	0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	26	3092	1640	47	5/52	5/43	34.89	3.18	65.78	1	1	0
ODIs	237	9231	7093	198	5/11	5/11	35.82	4.61	46.62	2	2	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	33	47	0	-	-	-	8.54	-	0	0	0
First-class	94	11193	5820	211	6/101		27.58	3.11	53.04		7	0
List A	312	12559	9606	281	5/11	5/11	34.18	4.58	44.69	3	3	0
Twenty20	11	222	244	11	3/23	3/23	22.18	6.59	20.18	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Pakistan v Australia at Karachi - Oct 22-26, 1998
Last Test	England v Pakistan at Manchester - Jul 27-29, 2006
ODI debut	Kenya v Pakistan at Nairobi (Aga) - Oct 2, 1996
Last ODI	South Africa v Pakistan at Port Elizabeth - Feb 9, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	England v Pakistan at Bristol - Aug 28, 2006
Last Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v Pakistan at Johannesburg - Feb 2, 2007
First-class span	1995/96 - 2006/07
List A span	1995/96 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004 - 2006/07

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.