Shahid  Afridi Biography

Sahibzada Mohammad Shaheed Khan Afridi (Urdu: ─ا اد الریدی; Pashto: شاهد الریدی; Born 1 March 1975, mostly referred to as Shahid Afridi, also referred to in the media as Boom Boom and Lala, is a Pakistani cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. As a successful all-rounder, Afridi became respected for his consistent bowling, which depended on a change of pace rather than spin, but he attracted additional interest for his aggressive batting style. 5Afridi won the sector file for the fastest ODI century in 37 deliveries  and has the distinction of having achieved maximum sixes in ODI cricket records. Afridi considers himself a taller bowler than a batsman, and has taken 395 wickets in ODI and forty-eight test wickets. As of January 2020, Afridi is ranked second in the most wickets chart with ninety-eight wickets from ninety-nine matches. On 19 February 2017, Afridi announced his retirement from worldwide cricket. However, he quickly returned to global cricket after being selected to symbolize and lead the 2018 World Cup XI against the West Indies in the charity Hurricane Relief T20 Challenge in uniform. After accepting the lawsuit, Afridi announced his retirement from global cricket at Lord's Cricket Stadium on 31 May 2018. On June 13, 2020, Afridi confirmed that he had been tested for COVID-19 via his official Twitter account after, how I experienced severe pain in my body due to being tested for COVID on June 11, 2020-19., 2020. He became actively involved in social support for people throughout Balochistan in remote regions during the period of isolation inside the United States before contracting the coronavirus.

In his autobiography Tipping Point (2019), Afridi revealed that his starting year is 1975. It was previously assumed that he was born in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, to the Afridi Pashtun tribe in 1980. He belongs to the circle of relatives of Sufi pirs (mentors or religious masters), and his grandfather Maulana Muhammad Ilyas was a well-known secular figure in Bhutan Sharif, a locality in the Tira Valley. His other grandfather, Sahibzada Abdul Baqi, received the title of Ghazi-i-Kashmir (Conqueror of Kashmir) for his efforts at some stage of the First Kashmir War. He is married to his maternal cousin Nadia Afridi and has five daughters. In 2021, it was reported that his daughter Aqsa may be engaged to the cricketer Shahin Afridi. 

In October 1996, Afridi was called up to the Odi squad for the entire 1996 Samiru Four Nations Cup-ninety-seven as a leg spinner as a replacement for the injured Mushtaq Ahmed.He made his debut on 2 October against Kenya; but he did not bat and was left wicketless.[30] Subsequently in form against Sri Lanka, Afridi batted at number 3 as a striker. In his first world innings, Afridi broke the record for the fastest time in ODI cricket, reaching his hundred from 37 balls. The eleven sixes he hit also equalled the record for the most in an Odi innings. Pakistan posted a full score of 371, the second-highest in Odis, received and, using eighty-two runs; Afridi was named man of the match. The file for the fastest century in an ODI was hacked by New Zealand cricketer Corey Anderson on 1 January 2014, who reached triple figures with 36 balls, and is now held through South African cricketer AB de Villiers, who made a century with 31 balls on 18 January 2015 against the West Indies.Two years after making his international debut, Afridi made his test debut in the third round of a three-match series against Australia on 22 October 1998. By this point, he had already played sixty-six odis, while playing before playing in Tests. He opened the batting, scoring 10 and 6, and took 5 wickets in the first innings. He played his 2nd test in January of the following year during Pakistan's tour of India; this turned into the first test between the two countries, given the fact that the year is 1990. Setting up the batting again, Afridi scored his first test century, scoring 141 runs from 191 balls. In equal form, he claimed an additional three wickets for fifty-four runs.Having won the first in form for 12 runs, Pakistan lost the second to draw the series.

On 12 April 2006, Afridi announced his temporary retirement from test cricket so that he could focus on ODIs, with special recognition at the 2007 World Cup, and spend more time with his family. He said that he could not forget to change his choice after the World Cup. Afridi has run ten tests since being recalled to the fringe in January 2005, an average of forty-seven.44 with a bat like the 4th century. However, on 27 April, he reversed his decision, stating that "[Woolmer] instructed me that I am one of the dominant players in the team and the team and that Pakistan actually desires me. Before Pakistan toured England in July-September, Afridi played for Ireland as a player from remote locations in the C&G Trophy.In six suits, he scored runs and took seven wickets. England won the four-test series 3-nil; Afridi played two matches, scored 49 runs and took three wickets. This evolved into the ultimate test cricket that Afridi played until 2010.

On 8 February 2007, Afridi was charged with bringing the game into disrepute after being seen on camera poking a bat at a spectator who swore at him while climbing the steps after being ignored. Afridi was suspended for 4 Odi matches, which is the minimum permissible ban for such an offence, meaning he could miss Pakistan's first World Cup in 2007. The CSP and Afridi decided not to appeal the ban, despite believing that the punishment had become unduly harsh. In the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup, he played poorly with the bat, but brilliantly with the ball, earning the Man of the Series award, although he did not take a wicket in the final and did not become a golden duck. He also became the first person to receive the Player of the Tournament award in the history of the T20 World Cup. But in the subsequent ICC World Twenty20 Championship held in 2009, the Afridi series performed brilliantly, scoring 50 points in the last semi-final and fifty-four in the last and leading their group to victory.

Shortly after Pakistan won the 2009 Twenty20 Cricket World Cup, captain Younis Khan announced his retirement from Twenty20 cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) finally announced that Shahid Afridi had taken over as captain in the T20Is; the appointment was to start with a single match, and the selection of a permanent replacement was to be made later. His 6-38 spell in the Australia side in 2010 was voted the best bowling performance of the 2009 Odi by ESPNcricinfo. On 31 January 2010, Afridi was caught on camera biting the ball at the end of the fifth Commonwealth Bank Odi collection in Australia. Afridi later pleaded guilty to ball tampering and applied to the banned Twenty20 international club. In March 2010, the board reported that Shahid Afridi had been appointed Odi captain in the area of the sacked Mohammad Yusuf, who had captained Pakistan at the 2010 Asian Cup, and during his first three suits as Odi captain, he scored two goals in matches against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, which he finished as the tournament's top scorer with 384 runs from three fits.

On 25 May 2010, Afridi became the designated captain of the all-country team in all 3 Codecs, after he announced his return to test cricket. In July 2010, Afridi led Pakistan in the first test of the collection in the Lord's towards Australia. He scored 31 points in 15 innings in the first innings and 2 in the second, but was ignored, succumbing to ill-considered hits in each innings. After a fit, he announced his retirement from Test cricket, again mentioning as a target the lack of temperament for Test cricket. Afridi was officially excluded from the test squad during the tour of England, however, after the spot-fixing scandal of Mohammed Asif, Mohammed Amir and test captain Salman Butt were suspended with the help of the International Cricket Council, he said he could return to Test cricket if "the team so wishes". According to a representative of Afridi, he expressed his concern about Mazhar Majid, who reached out to Pakistani gamers - in June.Majid also testified that he had approached Afridi, Abdul Razzak, Younis Khan, and Saeed Ajmal, but they all refused to be associated with him because of his threat. It is worth recalling that the four names listed above were no longer linked to the real scandal and that no disciplinary action was taken to counter them by the sports governing body, the International Cricket Council. 

On 30 May, Afridi announced his conditional retirement from global cricket in protest at his treatment by CPL. The situation on his return became such that the board was replaced. KSP suspended Afridi's relevant contract, fining him four. Five million rupees (fifty-two 300 dollars) and revoked his "No Objection" (NOC) certificates that allowed Afridi to play for Hampshire. Afridi asked the Sindh High Court to lift the sanctions. On June 15, Afridi withdrew his application after an out-of-court settlement, and the CPJ reinstated him to the NOC.  When the main PCB contracts were renewed in August, Afridi was allowed to terminate them. In October, he withdrew his resignation as Ijaz Butt was replaced as CPP chairman. Two weeks after his confirmation, Afridi was included in the Pakistan squad that will face Sri Lanka in three Odis and a T20I. In November 2011, Afridi became the best cricketer for a half-century and took 5 wickets on two separate occasions in Odis.  Afridi accomplished this feat in the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka, helping Pakistan win the series in one day. He also became a major character, reaching 50 in his fiftieth T20I. Afridi has the 3rd highest number of international awards in a match(eleven), while Mohammad Nabi and Virat Kohli  have scored the most points in T20.In 2013, during the first ODI rest against the West Indies in Guyana, Afridi scored 76 (fifty-five) before taking figures of 7/12, which was the second best ODI bowling score ever. In July 2014, he played for the rest of the world in a bicentennial celebration costume at Lord's. Afridi announced his retirement from ODI cricket after the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

 Pakistan missed out on Australia in the region final and were eliminated from the tournament. In March 2016, Pakistan was eliminated from the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 after falling to India, New Zealand and Australia. There was talk of it being Afridi's" last twenty " and he said after the loss to Australia that he might consider retiring and announce it within a week.On 3 April 2016, he announced that he would not retire, but would instead simply step down as Twenty20 captain.In September 2016, KSP announced that it wanted Afridi to step down. Afridi claimed that it was unfair for them to announce their plans in the media, but then stated that he wanted to hold a farewell match, which did not take place due to the fact that he canceled the meeting due to a problem with the printed circuit board. In 2017, Afridi announced that he was retiring from international cricket after 21 years, stating that he would continue to play domestic T20 cricket. In March 2014, Shahid Afridi joined the Shahid Afridi Foundation, which aims to provide medical services and educational institutions in Pakistan. He turned himself into one of the most charitable athletes in the world by doing something in August 2015.UNICEF and many Pakistani authorities have taken Shahid Afridi on board for a polio campaign in the tribal belt of the lawless Waziristan region.