(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.)
KARACHI – Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi’s autobiography ‘Game Changer’ is all set to reveal secrets and answers to much-pondered questions surrounding the all-rounder, most of all with regards to what he actually is good at.
Where Afridi is officially registered as a professional cricketer, with many believing him to have talents related to the field that he dedicated most of his life to, ‘Game Changer’ reveals that Boom Boom’s actual skills lie elsewhere.
“I just started playing cricket because I was bored and tape ball is actually the only form of cricket that is entertaining. That’s why when I started playing hard ball cricket, I actually started off as a bowler, given that you’re not mindless expected to slog in hard ball cricket as you are in tape ball,” reads an excerpt of the autobiography.
“However, after the [then fastest] century against Sri Lanka, I realised that people can come around, and eventually endorse, mindless slogging even in international cricket, if you keep at it with stubbornness and swagger. And that’s how I played two decades of international cricket,” the book adds.
The book reveals how this part time hobby of swinging the bat turned out to become a career, and how he learnt the political skills needed for his upcoming career which he is equally serious about as he was about cricket in the mid-1990s.
