Aik Din Geo Kay Sath - Shahid Khan Afridi (former Pakistani cricketer)

Aik Din Geo Kay Sath - Shahid Khan Afridi (former Pakistani cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team)

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: شاہد افریدی‎; Pashto: شاهد افریدی; born 1 March 1977), known as Shahid Afridi, is a former Pakistani cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. An all-rounder, Afridi was a right-handed leg spinner and a right-handed batsman.[8][9]

Afridi made his ODI debut in 1996, his Test debut in 1998 and his T20I debut in 2006. Afridi was player of the match in the final of the 2009 T20 World Cup scoring an unbeaten 54, having also been the player of the tournament in the 2007 edition. He led the Pakistan team in the 2011 Cricket World Cup where they reached the semi-finals before losing to rival India. In tests, Afridi was captain for just one match before resigning and retiring from the format, a move which allowed Salman Butt to replace him. After Pakistan's group stage elimination from the 2016 T20 World Cup, Afridi stepped down from captaincy. He was not selected afterwards and on 19 February 2017, Afridi announced his retirement from international cricket. He made a brief return to international cricket after being selected to represent and captain the World XI against the West Indies in the 2018 Hurricane Relief T20 Challenge charity match. Following the conclusion of the match, Afridi announced his retirement from international cricket on 31 May 2018.

Domestically Afridi has represented many teams. He has played for teams in the Pakistan Super League, Indian Premier League, T20 Blast and the Lanka Premier League.

Away from cricket Afridi runs his own charity, the Shahid Afridi Foundation which aims to provide education and healthcare facilities. He also teamed up with UNICEF to promote the anti-polio campaign in the country. During the 2019 Coronavirus pandemic, he was involved in helping people across Balochistan during the lockdown in the country. This led to him contracting COVID-19 on 13 June 2020.[10] Afridi was also nominated among the top 20 most charitable athletes of 2015.[1

Early and personal life
In his autobiography, Game Changer (2019), Afridi claimed his year of birth as 1975.[12] But Afridi later clarified that his autobiography's first edition carried the wrong year.[13] It had earlier been reported that he was born in Khyber Agency, Pakistan to an Afridi tribe of Pashtuns in 1980.[14][15]

He belongs to a family of Sufi pirs (teachers or spiritual masters) and his grandfather Maulana Muhammad Ilyas was a well-known spiritual figure in Bhutan Sharif, a locality in the Tirah Valley.[16] His other grandfather, Sahibzada Abdul Baqi, was given the title Ghazi-e-Kashmir (conqueror of Kashmir) for his efforts during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948.[17][18]

He is married to his maternal cousin Nadia Afridi and has five daughters.[19] In 2021, Afridi announced his eldest daughter Aqsa's engagement to cricketer Shaheen Afridi.[20]

Domestic career
Afridi was drafted to the Pakistan senior national team after fine performances at the under-19 championship circuit starting the 1994–95 season. Playing for the Karachi Whites, he helped his team win the title the following season picking 42 wickets in five matches at an average of 9.59. Later that season, Afridi had played against the visiting England A and West Indies Youth teams and a few first-class games for Karachi Whites in the senior National Championship.[21] In 2001, Afridi signed a contract to represent Leicestershire. In five first-class matches he scored 295 runs at an average of 42.14, including a highest score of 164,[22] and took 11 wickets at an average of 46.45;[23] Afridi also played 11 one day matches for the club, scoring 481 runs at an average of 40.08[24] and taking 18 wickets at 24.04.[25] His highest score of 95 came from 58 balls in a semi-final of the C&G Trophy to help Leicestershire beat Lancashire by seven wickets.[26] Derbyshire County Cricket Club signed Afridi to play for them in the first two months of the 2003 English cricket season


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