Shaheen Shah Afridi is a Pakistani professional cricketer who was born on April 6, 2000. He plays for the Pakistan national team and is the captain of the PSL team Lahore Qalandars. He is thought to be one of the best bowlers in all types of modern cricket around the world. Under his leadership, the Lahore Qalandars won their first PSL championship in 2022 and then won it again in 2023, making them the first team in PSL history to do so. He is the first person from Pakistan to win the Garfield Sobers trophy.
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Biography of Shaheen Afridi:
Early Life of Shaheen Afridi
Afridi is part of the Pashtun tribe of Zakhakhel Afridi. He grew up in Landi Kotal, a town in Pakistan’s Khyber District that is right next to Afghanistan. His oldest brother, Riaz Afridi, is 15 years older than him and played one Test match for Pakistan in 2004. He is the youngest of seven brothers. In Landi Kotal, Shaheen began playing cricket at the Tatara Ground, named after the nearby Tatara hills.
At the FATA Under-16 trials in 2015, Riaz Afridi taught Shaheen how to play hard-ball cricket. Before that, Shaheen had only played tennis-ball cricket. In November 2015, Shaheen went on a tour of Australia with the Under-16 team. He took four wickets, which helped the team win the One-Day and Twenty20 series by 2-1.
Domestic career of Shaheen Afridi:
In December 2016, Afridi was chosen to play for Pakistan’s Under-19 team at the 2016 Under-19 Asia Cup, which was held in Sri Lanka. In Pakistan’s first match of the U-19 Asia Cup, they beat Singapore by nine wickets. Three of his wickets cost Singapore 27 runs. Early in September 2017, Afridi signed a two-year deal with Dhaka Dynamites, one of the most important teams in the Bangladesh Premier League. Later, on September 26, 2017, he played his first game for Khan Research Laboratories in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the 2017–18 season. In the second half of the game, he got 8 wickets for 39 runs, which was the best performance by a Pakistani bowler in their first first-class match.
In July 2019, Afridi will play for the Rotterdam Rhinos in the first Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the tournament was cancelled the following month. Afridi will play for Hampshire County Cricket Club in England’s 2020 t20 Blast, it was announced in December 2019. In September 2020, Hampshire confirmed that he would be playing in the 2020 T20 Blast and said that he would be free after he finished his national duties. On September 20, 2020, in the last round of group games for the t20 Blast, Afridi got a hat-trick and four wickets in four balls. He finished the game with match figures of 6/19 from his four overs, which were the best bowling figures ever in T20 cricket at the Rose Bowl.
He was named captain of the Lahore Qalandars in December 2021. The Qalandars won the PSL in 2022 while he was captain, making him the youngest captain to win a T20 league. He also finished the tournament with the most wickets.
International career of Shaheen Afridi:
In March 2018, he was put on Pakistan’s Twenty20 International (T20I) team for a series against the West Indies. On April 3, 2018, he played his first T20I for Pakistan against the West Indies. He was put on Pakistan’s One Day International (ODI) team for the 2018 Asia Cup in September. On September 21, 2018, he played his first ODI for Pakistan against Afghanistan. In November 2018, he was put on the Test team for Pakistan’s series against New Zealand. On December 3, 2018, he played his first Test match for Pakistan against New Zealand.
He was put on Pakistan’s team for the 2019 Cricket World Cup in April. Shaheen beat Bangladesh on July 5, 2019, and became the youngest bowler to take five wickets in a World Cup match. His final score was 6/35. This was also the best bowling performance by a Pakistani bowler in a World Cup game. The International Cricket Council (ICC) named Afridi the team’s rising star after the World Cup. In the second Test match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in December 2019, Afridi got his first five-wicket haul.
For Pakistan’s June 2020 tour of England, he was part of a 29-member squad during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was selected to be one of 20 players on Pakistan’s team for the Test matches against England in July. In September 2021, he will represent Pakistan at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. The International Cricket Council named Afridi the Cricketer of the Year in January 2022. In 36 international games in the year 2021, he took 78 wickets.
Awards:
- PCB’s most important work of the year: 2021
- 2021 ICC Cricketer of the Year for Men.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 26 | 33 | 8 | 154 | 19 | 6.16 | 396 | 38.89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 |
| ODI | 36 | 18 | 11 | 125 | 23 | 17.86 | 158 | 79.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 |
| T20I | 52 | 10 | 4 | 48 | 16 | 8.0 | 40 | 120.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 26 | 44 | 5080 | 2612 | 104 | 6/51 | 10/94 | 3.09 | 25.12 | 48.85 | 4 | 1 |
| ODI | 36 | 35 | 1821 | 1676 | 70 | 6/35 | 6/35 | 5.52 | 23.94 | 26.01 | 2 | 0 |
| T20I | 52 | 52 | 1143 | 1455 | 64 | 4/22 | 4/22 | 7.64 | 22.73 | 17.86 | 0 | 0 |