Boom Boom Afridi, Will Shahid Afridi Ever Learn To Change His Strategy?

Who is Shahid Afridi?

Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age 31 years 49 days (March 20th, 2011)
Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Deccan Chargers, Fly Emirates XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire, South Australia
Playing role Allrounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Relation Brother - Tariq Afridi, Brother - Ashfaq Afridi

Why He Is Famous As "Boom Boom Afridi"?

The most famous thing about Shahid Afridi is that when he comes in the ground to bat for his team, he has just one goal and that primary goal is to hit sixers or fly the ball out of the ground. He has been doing that since the very first match, he does not care that he will get out in this effort and an average record is that he hits couple of sixes and then get catch out. This has made him popular as boom boom Afridi, boom boom because of his massive six hitting power and spectators enjoys his six hitting strategy. He is one of the top players that has record to hit most sixes in ODI cricket. He has been taught by his coaches and fans to play for the team and do not attempt to hit sixes all the time but he never learns. He did not learn in last 250 matches and most probably he will never learn to change his strategy.
Recently he has acheived the world record of scoring most sixed by any cricket player in the world. His sixers has crossed over 400, this combines all formats of the cricket games: ODI, T20 and Test games. He is now looking forward to take it to 500 sixes which will surely be one of the toughest and challenging cricket record to break by any future player.

Performance In Cricket World Cup 2011

Mr. Unpredictable in action!

One of the most interesting fact about Shahid Afridi is that in the recent years he has developed himself as a all rounder player and has been amazingly successful in spin bowling, If you check the bowling figures of Afridi you will learn he is the highest wicket taking bowler in cricket world cup 2011, he took 21 wickets in 8 matches and has been real danger for the opponent batsmen facing his bowling. This is a remarkable achievement from a guy who is famous for his batting completely turn himself into the best bowler in the biggest event of cricket.

Shahid Afridi was appointed as the captain of Pakistan cricket team for this world cup. If you check the performance of Pakistan team in the previous year, you will notice it was not that satisfactory, you can say average performance. But under the captaincy of Shahid Afridi in the world cup tournament the Pakistan cricket team has been extremely successful and has topped their group in the first pool of matches, most remarkable achievement in these matches was beating Australia who has been unbeatable in 32 matches in 12 years, which has strong psychological impact on Australia's performance for the rest of the tournament as they could not stand up again and have to go back home without making to the semi-finals. Then they started moving forward and beat West Indies in quarter final match. However in the semi-final match Pakistan lost the match with India because of poor performance in battling top and middle order. The point of topic is that Afridi played a major role in taking a weak team upto the semi-finals which is not less than a great achievement by him.

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