Shahid Afridi

Some Lesser Known Facts About Shahid Afridi

• Afridi started his career as a leg spinner in the Sameer Cup 1996–97 by replacing the injured Mushtaq Ahmed.

• He used Sachin Tendulkar’s bat to score the 3rd fastest ODI century in 37 balls in 1996 against Sri Lanka in Nairobi.

• He had the record for the fastest century in ODI for 19 years until Corey Anderson and AB de Villiers broke it. (Anderson 36 balls (2014) and de Villiers 31 balls (2015)).

• In 1998, he took 5 for 52 against Australia in his Test Debut.

• His cousin brother Javed Afridi is the CEO of Haier mobile in Pakistan.

• During the 3rd ODI at Kanpur in November 2007 against India, he had a verbal fight with Gautam Gambhir.

• He has a charity foundation called Shahid Afridi Foundation which provides healthcare and education facilities to the required people.

• From 2009 to 2011, he was the captain of Pakistan in the limited-overs format.

• In 2011, he announced his conditional retirement from international cricket as a protest against the PCB, and later that year he returned after Ijaz Butt got replaced as chairman of the PCB.

• His family owns a Toyota Showroom in Sabzi Mandi, Karachi.

• He is the slowest batsman to reach 7000 runs in about 316 innings.

• He has the worst batting average of 23.31 among 87 batsmen who made more than 4000 ODI runs.