Shahid Afridi

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: شاہدافریدی‬‎; Pashto: شاهد اپریدی‎; conceived 1980), prominently known as Boom, is a previous Pakistani cricketer and previous chief of the Pakistan national cricket team.As an effective All-rounder, Afridi was regarded for his predictable knocking down some pins that depends on change of pace instead of turn, yet drew more noteworthy consideration for his forceful batting style. Afridi was the world record holder for the quickest ODI century in 37 conveyances and holds the refinement of having hit the most number of sixes ever.

Afridi views himself as a superior bowler than batsman, and has taken 48 Test wickets and more than 350 in ODIs. Right now Afridi is driving the graph of most T20I wickets with 92 wickets from 92 matches. He likewise holds a record of taking most wickets and most player-of-the match grants in Twenty20 International cricket.

Afridi was the President for PSL group Peshawar Zalmi which is claimed by his cousin Javed Afridi.

Afridi is a giver and proprietor of the Shahid Afridi Foundation. In 2015, Afridi was named among the main 20 most altruistic competitors on the planet by Do Something.

On 19 February 2017, Afridi reported his retirement from universal cricket.

In October 1996 at age 16, Afridi was drafted into the ODI group amid the four-country Sameer Cup 1996– 97 as a leg spinner as a swap for the harmed Mushtaq Ahmed. He made his introduction on 2 October against Kenya; be that as it may, he didn't bat and went wicketless. In the following match against Sri Lanka, Afridi batted at number three in the part of a substitute. In his first worldwide innings, Afridi broke the record for quickest century in ODI cricket, achieving his hundred from 37 balls. The eleven sixes he struck likewise broke even with the record for most in an ODI innings. Matured 16 years and 217 days, Afridi turned into the most youthful player to score an ODI century. Pakistan posted a sum of 371, at the time the second-most noteworthy in ODIs, and won by 82 runs; Afridi was named man of the match. The record for quickest century in ODI was broken by New Zealand cricketer Corey Anderson on 1 January 2014 who hit 131* keeps running from 36 balls and is currently held by South-African cricketer AB de Villiers who made a century from 31 balls on 18 January 2015 against West Indies.

Afridi with his partners amid the 2009 World Twenty20 in June 2009

Two years in the wake of showing up on the worldwide scene, Afridi influenced his Test to make a big appearance in the third round of a three-coordinate arrangement against Australia on 22 October 1998.By this point he had effectively played 66 ODIs, at the time a record before playing Tests. He opened the batting, making scores of 10 and 6, and took five wickets in the main innings. He played his second Test the next January amid Pakistan's voyage through India; it was the principal Test between the two nations since 1990.Again opening the batting, Afridi scored his lady Test century, scoring 141 keeps running from 191 balls. In a similar match he additionally guaranteed three wickets for 54 runs. In the wake of winning the principal coordinate by 12 runs, Pakistan lost the second to draw the arrangement.

In 2001, Afridi marked an agreement to speak to Leicestershire. In five top of the line matches he scored 295 keeps running at a normal of 42.14, including a most elevated score of 164, and took 11 wickets at a normal of 46.45; Afridi likewise played 11 one day matches for the club, scoring 481 keeps running at a normal of 40.08 and taking 18 wickets at 24.04.His most astounding score of 95 originated from 58 balls in a semi-last of the C&G Trophy to enable Leicestershire to beat Lancashire by seven wickets. Derbyshire County Cricket Club marked Afridi to play for them in the initial two months of the 2003 English cricket season.In June 2004 Afridi marked with English region side Kent to play for them in three Twenty20 matches and one Totesport League coordinate.

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Afridi's Test coordinate batting vocation up to 30 December 2007, demonstrating runs scored (red bars) and the normal of the last ten innings (blue line)

Afridi made his quality felt in the third Test against India in March 2005, scoring a snappy fire second-innings 50 years and taking five wickets in the match (counting Tendulkar twice) to help Pakistan to win and enroll an arrangement draw.[37] In April Afridi struck what at the time was the equivalent second-quickest century in ODIs; he achieved 100 off 45 conveyances against India, offering the record to West Indian Brian Lara.[38] Afridi was more predictable with his batting and rocking the bowling alley all through 2005, beginning with the voyages through India and West Indies and through to the England visit. The Pakistani mentor Bob Woolmer helped Afridi to achieve a more full potential by enhancing his shot determination and giving him free rein over his batting disposition.

On 21 November 2005, Shahid Afridi was prohibited for a Test match and two ODIs for intentionally harming the contribute the second match of the three-Test arrangement against England. TV cameras imagined him scratching his boots on the pitch scraping the surface when play was held up after a gas canister detonated. Afridi later confessed to a level three rupture of the ICC implicit rules identifying with the soul of the amusement. Match official Roshan Mahanama stated: "This boycott should fill in as a message to players that this sort of conduct isn't permitted."

On 12 April 2006, Afridi reported a transitory retirement from Test cricket so he could focus on ODIs, with a specific spotlight on the 2007 World Cup, and to invest more energy with his family. He said he would consider switching his choice after the World Cup. Afridi had played ten Tests since being reviewed to the side in January 2005, averaging 47.44 with the bat including four centuries. Be that as it may, on 27 April he switched his choice, saying that "[Woolmer] revealed to me that I am one of the fundamental players in the group and squad and that Pakistan extremely required me".Before Pakistan visited England in July to September, Afridi played for Ireland as an abroad player in the C&G Trophy. In six matches, he scored 128 runs and took seven wickets.England won the four-coordinate Test arrangement 3– 0;[46] Afridi played two matches, scoring 49 runs and took three wickets.[48] It was the last Test cricket Afridi played until 2010.

Afridi was charged on 8 February 2007 of bringing the diversion into notoriety after he was seen on camera pushing his bat at an observer who swore at him on his way up the means in the wake of being rejected. Afridi was given a four-diversion ODI suspension, the base conceivable boycott for such an offense, implying that he would miss Pakistan's initial two 2007 World Cup matches. The PCB and Afridi picked not to request the boycott, in spite of feeling that the discipline was unreasonably unforgiving.

In the 2007 World Twenty20, he performed inadequately with the bat however splendidly with the ball, winning the Man of the Series grant, however he neglected to take a wicket in the last and was out for a brilliant duck. He additionally turned into the primary individual to get the Player of the Tournament grant in T20 World Cup history. In any case, in the following ICC Twenty20 World Cup, held in 2009 Afridi performed splendidly in the arrangement scoring 50 keeps running in the semi-last and 54 in the last and driving his group to triumph.

Amid the ICC World T20 last in 2009 v Sri Lanka at Lord's. He set some allround records which are awe-inspiring

He turned into the primary player to score a fifty out of a fruitful runchase in a World T20 last.

Afridi turned into the main player to score a fifty and to take no less than a solitary wicket in a World T20 last.

He likewise turned into the main player to win both the Player of the Final(2009) and the Player of the competition grants in ICC World T20 history.