MBA (Developer): MEri jAn ShAhid aFridi (BooM BooM)

Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi

Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency

Current age 32 years 91 days

Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Deccan Chargers, Dhaka Gladiators, Fly Emirates XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, Hampshire, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire, Melbourne Renegades, South Australia

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	27	48	1	1716	156	36.51	1973	86.97	5	8	220	52	10
ODIs	342	317	19	7040	124	23.62	6182	113.87	6	33	644	298	111
T20Is	48	46	3	748	54*	17.39	527	141.93	0	3	59	30	13
First-class	111	183	4	5631	164	31.45			12	30			75
List A	433	405	22	9690	124	25.30			8	52			134
Twenty20	108	96	7	1704	80	19.14	1084	157.19	0	5	141	82	29

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	27	47	3194	1709	48	5/52	5/43	35.60	3.21	66.5	1	1
ODIs	342	317	14952	11482	344	6/38	6/38	33.37	4.60	43.4	4	8
T20Is	48	48	1085	1115	56	4/11	4/11	19.91	6.16	19.3	3	0
First-class	111		13493	7023	258	6/101		27.22	3.12	52.2		8
List A	433		19047	14640	448	6/38	6/38	32.67	4.61	42.5	5	10
Twenty20	108	108	2362	2513	137	5/20	5/20	18.34	6.38	17.2	4	1

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
4/11, 3*	PCB Greens	v PCB Blues	Lahore	26 May 2012	Other T20
20, 1/24	PCB Greens	v PCB Blues	Lahore	24 May 2012	Other T20
14, 4/49	PCB Greens	v PCB Blues	Lahore	22 May 2012	Other OD
32, 1/28	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	22 Mar 2012	ODI # 3267
9, 0/58	Pakistan	v India	Dhaka	18 Mar 2012	ODI # 3263
0/32	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Dhaka	15 Mar 2012	ODI # 3260
0, 2/49	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	11 Mar 2012	ODI # 3258
3/23	Dhaka	v Barisal	Dhaka	29 Feb 2012	Twenty20
27*, 1/35	Dhaka	v Khulna	Dhaka	28 Feb 2012	Twenty20
0/19, 3	Pakistan	v England	Abu Dhabi	27 Feb 2012	T20I # 229

Profile

Of Shahid Afridi it can safely be said that cricket never has and never will see another like him. To say he is an allrounder is to say Albert Einstein was a scientist; it tells a criminally bare story.

For a start, the slant of his all-round skills only became clear ten years into his career; he is a leg-spinning allrounder. Variety is his calling and as well as a traditional leg-break, he has two googlies, a conventional offie and a lethal faster one, though this is increasingly rare. All come with the threat of considerable, late drift. He fairly hustles through overs, which in limited-over formats is a weapon in itself and the package is dangerous.

But forever associated with him will be his madcap batting, the prospect of which is a crowd-puller the world over. He is a compulsive basher, literally unable to control his urges to slog every ball that comes his way, and not much of it is classical. Often spectacular results are at hand; he owns, for example, two of the fastest ODI hundreds, including the fastest one ever in his first innings ever at the age of 16. His career strike rates are nearly unmatched. But mostly, anywhere in the order, consistency has been missing.

Despite a healthy Test career, he gave up on the format in 2006, pre-empting men such as Andrew Flintoff, to maximise fully a limited-overs career. He came back, in inimitable fashion, for one Test only, as captain no less in 2010. A loss and two slogs meant he re-retired immediately after. Twenty20 is something he could've been made for and he is among the most lethal players of the format, having been player of the tournament for the inaugural edition of the World Twenty20 in 2007 and led Pakistan to the title two years later with matchwinning all-round hands in the semi and final.

Maturity has often threatened to gatecrash his career and leadership was a just reward, though it was taken away from him in 2011 after an immature spat; another retirement was announced but none of it will change much a truly unique career.