THE BLUE EYE BOY OF PAKISTAN

Shahid Afridi famously known as ‘BOOM BOOM’ was born on 1 March 1980 in Khyber, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. He established himself as one of the leading & highest-paid cricketers of Pakistan. Afridi is popular all around the world due to his explosive batting. He served Pakistan for 21 years. And achieved what no one else in Pakistan did.

Shahid Afridi’s career began with a bang, showing early signs of glory. He became the youngest batsman at 16 years and 217 days to score an international century. On his batting debut against Sri Lanka, he scored the fastest ever century at the time in just 37 balls hitting eleven sixes in the process, which is also a record. This remained the fastest century for 18 years.

Afridi also became the first player to receive the Man of the Series Award in the first T20 World Cup in 2007. He was the highlight of the 2009 T20 World cup, where Pakistan beat Sri Lanka thanks to Afridi’s half-century.

Afridi became the captain of his national side for the first time in 2009, when Younis Khan announced his retirement. And captained Pakistan for more than two years.

Pakistan's Shahid Afridi is arguably one of the most loved and followed cricketers in Pakistan. Afridi came to the limelight after scoring the fastest one-day international century (102 off 37 balls) against Sri Lanka in Nairobi on October 4th 1996, a record that is yet to be surpassed (and one that may never be).

Here is list of the records held by Shahid Afridi.

Achievements
He became the first player to score a fifty in a successful run chase in a World T20 final.

• Afridi became the first player to score a fifty and to take at least a single wicket in a World T20 final.
• He also became the only player to win both the Player of the Final (2009) and the Player of the tournament awards in ICC World T20 history.
• Holds the record for taking the most wickets as captain in T20Is (40)
• Shahid Afridi holds the heights strike rate in one day international, of all the players who have scored 1000 or more runs Afridi’s 115.46 is by far the highest striker rate overall.

• Most number of sixes, 333 in ODI cricket, 41 in T20 matches and 52 in test matches that’s staggering 426 in total which is by far the most next comes Sanath Jayasuriya who has 351 to his name.
• Most Man of the match Awards. He leads the way in terms of most man of the matches’ awards in Pakistan cricket history with 32 MOM’s to his name while Saeed Anwar has 28.
• Most 5-Wickets Haul's in ODI Career, Shahid Afridi has taken 5 or more wickets in an One Day International nine times and he sits on 3rd place in the list level with Aussie Brett Lee.

Awards

• · On 23 March 2010, Afridi was awarded the Pride of Performance by President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari
• · On 23 March 2018, he was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz by President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain