Shahid Afridi factfile

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Origin: Pakistan
Full name: Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born: March 1, 1980 in Khyber agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Age: 31 years
Major teams: Pakistan, Habib Bank, Leicestershire, Griqualand West, South Australia, Karachi
Bowling style: Right-arm leg-break
Batting style: Right-handed
Test debut: v Australia, Karachi, 1998
Last Test: v Australia, Lord’s, July 2011
One-day debut: v Kenya, Nairobi, October 1996
Last one-day: v West Indies, Guyana, May 2011
Test record: 27 matches, 48 wickets, 35.60 bowling average, 36.51 batting
One-day record: 325 matches, 315 wickets, 34.22 bowling average, 23.49 batting
Major achievements:
– Scored fastest one-day hundred, off just 37 balls, against Sri Lanka in Nairobi, Kenya in October 1996 — the record remains unbroken
– Has hit third and fourth fastest fifties (both off 18 balls) in ODIs
– Smashed 289 sixes — highest in one-day cricket
– Finished as the joint top wicket-taker in the 2011 World Cup with 21. India’s Zaheer Khan also took the same number of wickets, who played one match more than Afridi