KARACHI: Pakistan’s skipper for One Day Internationals, Shahid Khan Afridi turned 31 on Tuesday and The Sports Encounter and its team congratulate the skipper on his birthday.
Shahid Afridi, who is leading top bowlers in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2010, born on March 1, 1980 in Khyber Agency and has represented Pakistan in 27 Tests, 314 One Day Internationals and 42 Twenty20 International matches in his almost 15 years career.
Known for his blistering hitting and probing leg-spin bowling, Shahid Afridi is a tailor-made player for ODIs and T20s while he resigned as Test captain and announced his retirement from the format after losing Test match in England last year.
However, Boom Boom Afridi continued to lead Pakistan in the ODIs and T20s and led the team to a historic victory in 6-match One-Day series against New Zealand in their country earlier this year.
Pakistan have played two matches so far in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and in both matches, Afridi has bowled superb spells taking nine wickets and thus is leading the other top bowlers like Mitchell Johnson of Australia and Kemar Roach of West Indies.
Afridi first came into the international cricket fold in 1996 and started his ODI career in a great fashion blowing away Sri Lankan bowling attack in only his second ODI blasting a century from just 37 deliveries.
He never looked back after that day and played crucial role in Pakistan’s victories over the years.
Shahid Afridi has scored 6606 runs and taken 301 wickets from 314 One Day Internationals and is only the second player after Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka to take over 300 wickets and scoring over 6000 runs.
