Shaheen Afridi Biography

Shaheen Afridi’s  Biography

Shaheen Afridi’s Biography

 

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Shaheen Shah Afridi (Urdu: شاھین شاہ آفریدی) is a Pakistani professional cricketer that plays as a fast bowler for the Pakistan national squad.

 

Born

 

  

 6 April 2000, Landi Kotal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

 
 

Height
6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
 

Net Worth

  

$ 0.6 Million US
 

bowling

  

Left-arm fast

 

Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Shaheen is a Pashtun from the Zakhakhel Afridi tribe. He has grown up in Landi Kotal, a community in Pakistan’s Khyber district near the Afghan border. Shaheen is the younger sibling of seven siblings; his elder brother, Riaz Afridi, also known as his 15 years older mentor, played one Test match for Pakistan in 2004. Shaheen began his cricket career at Landi Kotal’s Tatara Ground, named after the adjacent Tatara hills.

After only playing tennis-ball cricket, Riaz Afridi brought Shaheen to hard-ball cricket during the FATA Under-16 tests ln 2015. Excellence at this stage led to Shaheen’s selection for the Under-16 tour of Australia in November 2015, when he contributed four wickets in the 2–1 One-Day and Twenty20 series triumphs.

 

SHAHEEN AFRIDI PERSONAL INFO                      

Age as in 2021  21 years old
Birthplace  Landi Kotal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Zodiac Sign Aries
Nationality Pakistani
Hometown Kpk, Pakistan

 

SHAHEEN AFRIDI FAMILY INFO

Father Ayaz Khan
Brother Riaz Afridi

He has belonged to a well-known cricket background family. He is the child of Ayaz Khan, a cousin of Shahid Afridi, and is engaged to Shahid Afridi’s eldest daughter Aqsa Afridi.

SHAHEEN  AFRIDI  EDUCATION:

Not available

SHAHEEN AFRIDI’s BODY STATS:

Weight 83 kg
Body type Athletic
Height 6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
Eye colour Light brown
Hair colour Brown
Body type Slim

Domestic and T20 career

Afridi was named to the Pakistan Under-19 cricket squad for the 2016 Under-19 Asia Cup in Sri Lanka in December 2016. In Pakistan’s nine-wicket triumph against Singapore in the U-19 Asia Cup opener, he claimed three wickets for 27 runs.

Afridi signed a two-year deal with Dhaka Dynamites, a big Bangladesh Premier League team, in September 2017. On September 26, 2017, he made his first-class debut for Khan Research Laboratories in the 2017–18 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. He grabbed eight wickets for 39 runs in the match’s t20i, the most remarkable statistic for a Pakistani bowler making his first-class debut.

Afridi recorded his second five-wicket haul in three T20 games on October 2, 2020, in the 2020–21 National T20 Cup, with stats of 5/20 from four overs. Shortly afterwards, in a match against Sindh, Afridi grabbed another five-wicket haul for 5/21.

Afridi agreed to a contract with Middlesex in October 2021 to play in English domestic tournaments until July 2022.

 

SHAHEEN AFRIDI’S INTERNATIONAL CAREER

Competition T20 ODI T20I T20 Test
Catches/stumpings 20/– 4/– 8/– 2/–
Best bowling 6/19 6/35 3/20 6/51
10 wickets in the match 0 0 0 1
5 wickets in innings 4 2 0 4
Bowling average 21.28 24.62 24.93 23.89
Wickets 143 53 45 86
Balls bowled 2,359 1,419 860 4,107
Top score 14 19* 10* 19
100s/the 50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Batting average 6.58 14.50 19.00 5.76
Runs scored 112 87 19 121
Matches 105 28 39 21

He was included in Pakistan’s Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the West Indies series in March 2018. On April 3 2018, he made his T20I debut for Pakistan against the West Indies. He was included in Pakistan’s One Day International (ODI) team for the 2018 Asia Cup in September 2018.

Shaheen became the youngest bowler to record a five-wicket sweep in a World Cup competition in July  2019, in a tournament against Bangladesh, ending with statistics of 6/35. Most of these were Pakistan’s most impressive bowling stats in a World Cup match by a bowler. The International Cricket Council (ICC) designated Afridi the team’s emerging star based on World Cup.

Afridi recorded his first five-wicket performance in Test cricket in December 2019, during the second Test match against Sri Lanka.

He was picked to a 29-man team for Pakistan’s COVID-19 pandemic visit to England in June 2020. In July, he was included in Pakistan’s 20-man squad for the Test matches against England.

Shaheen got picked to Pakistan’s team for the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in September 2021.

The International Cricket Council named Afridi Cricketer of the Year in January 2022. In 2021, he collected 78 wickets in 36 international matches.

Batting Career Summary

 

 

 M Inn NO Runs HS Avg BF SR 100 200 50 4s 6s
T20I 39 4 3 19 10 19.0 18 105.56 0 0 0 1 1
ODI 28 15 9 87 19 14.5 143 60.84 0 0 0 6 2
Test 21 28 7 121 19 5.76 348 34.77 0 0 0 16 1

 

Bowling Career Summary

M Inn B Runs Wkts BBC BBM Econ Avg SR 5W 10W
T20I 39 39 860 1122 45 3/20 3/20 7.83 24.93 19.11 0 0
ODI 28 27 1419 1305 53 6/35 6/35 5.52 24.62 26.77 2 0
Test 21 35 4107 2055 86 6/51 10/94 3.0 23.9 47.76 4 1

 

 

SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES OF SHAHEEN SHAH AFRIDI

 

 

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