Shahid Afridi Height, Weight, Age, Spouse, Family, Facts, Biography

Shahid Afridi Quick Info
Height	5 toes 11 in
Weight	77 kg
Date of Birth	March 1, 1980
Zodiac Sign	Pisces
Spouse	Nadia Afridi

Shahid Afridi is a Pakistani cricketer who enthused himself to enthusiasts with his damaging, fierce batting taste when he first burst on the global scene however increasingly more was more helpful for his national staff together with his crafty leg-spin bowling. He scored more than 11,000 runs for Pakistan around the 3 world codecs and captured greater than 500 wickets. Shahid used to be adjudged the ‘Player of the Series’ in the 2007 ICC World T20 the place Pakistan completed as runners-up and the ‘Player of the Final’ in the 2009 ICC World T20 which Pakistan won. He additionally captained Pakistan to the semi-final degree of the 2011 ICC World Cup. After announcing his global retirement in 2017, he endured playing aggressive cricket for franchise-based teams in T20 and T10 leagues around the globe.

Born Name

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi

Nick Name

Shahid, Boom Boom, Lala

Sun Sign

Pisces

Born Place

Khyber Agency, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Residence

Defence Housing Authority, Clifton Cantonment, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Nationality

Occupation

Cricketer

Family

Father – Sahabzada Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi
Siblings – Tariq Afridi (Brother), Iqbal Afridi (Brother), Mushtaq Afridi (Brother), Ashfaq Afridi (Brother), Shoaib Afridi (Brother). He additionally had a sister who gave up the ghost in October 2023.
Others – Irfan Afridi (Nephew) (Cricketer)

Manager

He is represented via Ameem Haq, Manager and Sports Agent, Flaminko Sports, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Batting

Right-Handed

Bowling

Right-Arm Leg-Spin

Role

Allrounder

Jersey Number

10 – ODI, T20I, BPL, PSL

Build

Athletic

Height

5 toes Eleven in or 180.5 cm

Weight

seventy seven kg or one hundred seventy lbs

Girlfriend / Spouse

Shahid has dated –

Nadia Afridi (2000–Present) – Shahid were given married to his maternal cousin Nadia in 2000. The couple has 5 daughters together, the first Four are named Aqsa, Ansha, Ajwa, and Asmara. In February 2020, Nadia gave start to their 5th child, a toddler woman.

Race / Ethnicity

Asian

He is of Pashtun (Afridi tribe) descent.

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Hazel

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Short-cropped, side-parted hair
Sports a thick beard
Toned body
Infectious smile
Has a mole beneath his left eye

Religion

Islam

Shahid Afridi Facts

He first got here into the spotlight after he picked Forty two wickets in simply 5 games, serving to his home staff Karachi Whites win the championship in the 1995-Ninety six season.

Shahid was then drafted into the Pakistan nationwide workforce in October 1996 and scored a 37-ball hundred in simply his second ODI which used to be a world report at the moment. He made his Test debut in October 1998 and had already performed Sixty six ODIs sooner than that, which was once additionally a global document then.

He was the joint-leading wicket-taker, with 21 wickets, at the 2011 ICC World Cup.

In 2014, he based the ‘Shahid Afridi Foundation’ to lend a hand supply healthcare and education facilities for underprivileged children in Pakistan. He has also been roped in by means of UNICEF to work for his or her anti-polio marketing campaign within the tribal region of Waziristan.

In 2017, he turned into the primary cricketer to take a hat-trick in the nascent T10 layout of the game. As of February 2020, he held the document for hitting probably the most collection of sixes in ODIs.

He was honored with the ‘Pride of Performance’ award in 2010 by the Pakistani Government and the ‘Sitara-i-Imtiaz’ in 2018.

In June 2022, Shahid was fined PKR 1500 by way of Motorway police for overspeeding while riding from Lahore to Karachi.

In September 2022, he used to be trolled by Indian leg spinner Amit Mishra after Afridi gave recommendation to Indian batter Virat Kohli to retire on high and now not when he used to be getting dropped from the team. To this, Mishra had stated that “Some other folks best retire as soon as”. Afridi had introduced his retirement multiple instances.

In December 2022, Afridi was named the intervening time chief selector of Pakistan males’s national cricket team. He was decided on for the then-coming house sequence against New Zealand.

In October 2023, Afridi published that his sister was once fighting for her life.

Featured Image through Shahid Afridi / Instagram

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Update: 2024-06-02

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