Afridi Tujhe Salam (Merged)

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this is how he started

at the end of 2 overs .

shahid afridi 1* (4)
salman butt 7* (8)
the way he started looked as if he wanted to play a really quiet innings. but boy oh boy what an innings he plyed

heres wat Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on cricinfo says:

It couldn't be termed slogging, it wasn't calculated, and it certainly wasn't a fluke. Forces of nature are probably impossible to explain. If his 102 at Nairobi in 1997 - still the fastest in ODIs - had introduced him to the world, his 102 today just reaffirmed that he remains one of the most destructive elements in the cricket world

Don't know about you...
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and i feel really proud to be his kaliwal .. go kohatians go ..
some of my afridi freinds (also his cousins at DARRA ADAM KHEL) ALWAYS CRICTIZED HIM but i beleive they wont do that for another month or two now. :rotfl:

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i dont know if anyone talked about this yet, but it was on espnstar
http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/cricket_newsdetail_1487478.html](http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/cricket_newsdetail_1487478.html)
"Afridi’s breathtaking strokeplay prompted an Indian spectator to display a signboard which read: ‘Afridi, please spare us for friendship’s sake.’ "

lolzzzz :rotfl:

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India v Pakistan, 5th ODI, Kanpur

Shahid Afridi - master of the chaos

The Pakistan View by Osman Samiuddin

April 15, 2005

Shahid Afridi: stunning display © Getty Images

Everything is rendered meaningless. The pitch, the field, the captain, the bowler, strategies, bowling changes, opening partners, the nervous nineties, traditional thought … everything goes, such is Shahid Afridi’s joyous disregard for convention.

When India instigated a stirring fightback late in the morning to eke out 249 on a suspiciously (and thankfully) unODI-like pitch, the target held fears. Low bounce, a bit of grip, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh in tandem, new captain - game on. Pakistan’s start, we said, would be crucial. A breezy fifty here, maybe with a cameo from Afridi, and it could get interesting. But Afridi rendered it all irrelevant.

Two initial overs were played out with decorum, nine runs were scored respectfully. Then madness broke out. Afridi first picked up Lakshmipathy Balaji off his shins over square leg. A couple of balls later, a dextrous flick in the same area brought another four. Balaji adjusted his radar, pitching the next ball straighter. He’ll block it, I thought. Afridi disagreed, picking it up straight but dizzyingly high. Aha! Caught at mid-off then? But the ball kept going, reaching higher and travelling further still. He was indeed caught - but by the ballboy two yards behind the boundary. To conclude the over, he part-slashed, part-drove past point; no-one saw the ball until it crashed into the boundary boards.

OK, so far, so normal. A breezy cameo 20 meets an abrupt end. Ah, here comes Anil Kumble, bringing with him three options for Afridi: stumped, bowled, or caught slicing between mid-off and cover. The first ball was directed over and beyond square leg. Well, it was a waist-high full-toss, and got what it deserved. Soon he will perish. Next ball, Afridi showed us his unique interpretation of the sweep. The ball looped outside off, fullish, so Afridi bent down and, with a cross-batted flick, sent it over midwicket.

Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off’s hands into play. All went to plan, except someone forgot to factor in Afridi’s forearms. The shot sailed over long-off, landing and dribbling to the fence. When he stepped out next ball to lift, casually, between long-on and midwicket for a fourth six, finally we sensed that something might be up.

He soon pushed Zaheer Khan for - hold your breath - an utterly orthodox defensive push down the ground for four and something was indeed up: his 50, off 20 balls. Until then Zaheer had avoided the carnage, but Afridi disregarded the fact that the next ball was on a good length, and sent it soaring over midwicket. It was his 200th six, in 204 one-day matches.

And on he went, smashing everything and everyone. Dinesh Mongia, who we all thought might do a bit, was greeted, mockingly, with a forward defensive. The next ball landed atop the shamiana [tent] enclosure where the Pakistani fans were seated at long-on, and it brought the team 100 up in the 10th over. The rest of his innings, before and after, will be remembered as a blur, a flurry of unreal machismo.

What happened? Fields were changed, maybe, and I think bowlers were too. Did some balls turn? Others may have bounced awkwardly or gripped dangerously, but so what? Afridi remained Afridi, disregarding. Occasionally, between balls, he would diligently practise a defensive stroke, elbow high and straight, stance upright … and then forget about all that as the next ball came down. The nineties, usually so tense, were barely considered: the ten most vital runs in batting traversed uncaringly, with three fours and a couple of singles somewhere among them.

One image will remain, of absolute tranquillity amid the chaos: Afridi, standing at the non-striker’s end, in the 14th over, as he approached his 100, gloves off, both arms swinging freely. Was he keeping them loose? Or was he pausing for breath, taking stock maybe as he contemplated what turned out to be the joint-second-fastest 100 in ODI history (he already owns the fastest)? More likely he was allowing us to pause for breath and take stock of what we were witnessing.

The hundred arrived – his fourth in all, but his first in exactly three years - with his tenth four soon afterwards to go with nine sixes. The very next ball, cynically disproving those who tell him to pay heed to defence occasionally, he was bowled, prodding forward to Harbhajan Singh. He’d faced 46 balls for 102; his opening partner Salman Butt – yes, he was also playing – made 21 in the same number of balls. When Afridi left, the match withered. It became meaningless, it became conventional … we lost interest and didn’t really care how it would end. For 75 minutes, we didn’t watch cricket, we watched Shahid Afridi toying with it.

Osman Samiuddin is a freelance cricket writer based in Karachi. He is following the Pakistan team through their tour of India.

© Cricinfo

http://aus.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2005/APR/232964_INDPAK2004-05_15APR2005.html

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Afridi awesome
April 15, 2005

Shahid Afridi has for long been an unpredictable cricketer. But that facet of his game is always accompanied by glittering moments of brilliance that convince one that the 25-year old is destined for bigger things.

In the fifth One-Day International against India, it was his single-minded aggression that carried Pakistan to the easiest of victories, and a 3-2 lead in the six-match series.

On a pitch that proved difficult to bat on during the first innings, India put on 250 runs - a total many reckoned would be competitive given the fact that the pitch would get slower and India’s battery of spinner’s would be helped no end by the conditions.

But some people are beyond reason. Trying to impress upon Afridi the need to keep his wicket intact is a futile act. Coach Bob Woolmer and captain Inzamam-ul Haq have both shown great confidence in him and today he repaid their faith with interest.

As Afridi walked in to open the innings with Salman Butt, India’s stand-in skipper Rahul Dravid and the entire Indian team would have known the importance of sending the right-hander back to the pavilion as quickly as possible. In the last two games, Ashish Nehra was able to do that in quick time, but today he was not around.

Things started off sedately, with nine runs coming off the first overs. But, then, Afridi blasted 23 off the third over, bowled by Balaji, to give Pakistan a monster of a kick-start to the innings.

Zaheer bowled a maiden immediately after that, but the whipping Balaji received made a fearful Dravid introduce his most experienced ODI bowler, Anil Kumble, into the attack.

The result was the same. Another over, another 23 runs.

Pace or spin doesn’t matter to Afridi as long as there are only two fielders outside the 30-yard circle.

Granted that Balaji should have known not to bowl into Afridi’s pads; granted he should have known not to give him too much room either. Introducing a spinner into the attack while the field restrictions are still in effect is always a move fraught with danger, and the right-hander showed exactly how much damage can be done.

The first 100 runs of the Pakistan innings came off just 64 balls. When Afridi was eventually dismissed, Pakistan had scored 131 off just 86 balls. Afridi’s contribution was 102 off 46 balls, the second fastest ODI century. To put his knock into correct perspective, his fellow opener Butt had used up 40 balls for his 29 at that point in the innings.

Afridi dominance is clearly illustrated by the manner in which he took on each bowler. Balaji was smashed for 26 runs (4 x 3, 6 x 2) off 8 balls, Zaheer, who was perhaps the only bowler to keep him quiet, gave away 30 runs (4 x 4, 6 x 2) off 23 balls. Those were the seamers.

The spinners weren’t spared either. Kumble was hammered for 23 runs (4 x 1, 6 x 3) off 6 balls while Dinesh Mongia, who had great success in Twenty-20 cricket in England, was trashed for 19 runs (4 x 1, 6 x 2) in 6 balls.

The innings run-rate when Afridi was dismissed was 9.07, way above the required run-rate of 3.41. The remaining batsmen did not need to score at a quick pace and they didn’t. They took a further 27.5 overs to get the remaining 121 runs, at an RPO of 4.4.

It needed a batsman possessing the brute force of Afridi to crack this match open. The right-hander delivered as Virender Sehwag has so often for India. Today, all those watching could do nothing but sit back and enjoy the astonishing disdain that Afridi had for the Indian bowlers.

http://in.rediff.com/cricket/2005/apr/15afridi.htm

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You are his kiliwol…:wink: :amamah: Thats nice to know. I am sure he has inspired many more pakhtoons with this innings :smiley:

:bhangra: :jhanda:

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just finished watching afridi's innings finally.......just speechless.......and i think it is better to be speechless............Mashallah

London Guppy meet may 2007
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dayum right man.

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**Crowd pleaser Afridi does it again **
By Scott Heinrich

SHAHID AFRIDI FACTFILE

One-day matches: 204
Runs: 4,523 at an ave of 24.3
Strike rate: 105.7
100s: 4; 50s: 25; Ducks: 17

Test matches: 17
Runs: 984 at 32.8

In this golden era of run-scoring, where bat is master and ball is slave, there are several pretenders to the mantle of the cleanest hitter around.

The mind instantly turns to England’s six-thirsty hero Andrew Flintoff, while Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya, India’s Virender Sehwag and Aussie basher Adam Gilchrist are also in the frame.

But facts and figures point to one man standing above them all, Pakistan’s 25-year-old pinch-hitter Shahid Afridi.

Afridi’s demolition of India in Kanpur - where he thrashed a century off just 45 balls - would count as a career highlight for most cricketers.

Not for Afridi, whose whirlwind knock registers as the joint second-fastest ton in one-day history - behind his own 37-ball effort against Sri Lanka in Nairobi in 1996.

The right-hander’s career has been crafted on a single-minded compulsion to hit big and hit fast, regardless of the quality of the opposition.

That day against Sri Lanka, the first of Afridi’s 195 one-day knocks, legendary off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan conceded 73 runs and Jayasuriya a whopping 94.

No batsman has hit more sixes in limited-overs cricket, his nine against India taking him 19 clear of Jayasuriya in second place.

MOST ODI SIXES
1: S Afridi 203 in 195 inns (Strike rate: 1.04)
2: S Jaysr’ya 188 in 325 (0.57)
3: S Ganguly 168 in 262 (0.64)
4: C Cairns 147 in 184 (0.79)
5: S Tend’kar 144 in 337 (0.42)
6: Inz-ul-Haq 133 in 316 (0.42)
7: V Richards 126 in 167 (0.75)
25: A Flintoff 73 in 71 (1.02)
BBC Academy: How to hit sixes

Revealingly, his strike rate of 1.04 sixes per innings is head and shoulders above his nearest pursuers, with Flintoff the only other player averaging one six per innings.

Afridi’s box-office ability to reduce attacks to nervous wrecks does not, however, to elevate him to the echelons of an all-time great batsman.

In terms of technique, Afridi bears no comparison to artists of the past who have worn the Star of Pakistan, practitioners like Zaheer Abbas and Javed Miandad.

His selling point is his voracious - almost naive - appetite for quick runs, coupled with excellent hand-eye co-ordination and an ability to improvise.

Of course, Afridi is too extreme for Test cricket, and even in the short game he is always just one delivery away from being dismissed.

Afridi is given freedom to slog by Pakistan, who know his game well

In Kanpur, his boundary down the ground to reach triple figures, struck with a diagonal bat, was followed by a rare forward defensive which allowed the ball to trickle beneath his defence and bowl him.

And Leicestershire fans will not forget Afridi’s reckless innings in the 2001 C&G Trophy final, where he blazed 20 off nine balls before giving catching practice to a Somerset fielder.

Afridi embodies unpredictability but Pakistan know exactly what they are getting.

Why else would they give a man who averages 24 and is dismissed for single-figure scores in over a third of his innings a 200-match career?

They have persisted with Afridi because he is that rare creature in professional sport, a genuine match-winner.

That his incredible talents actually win matches only once in a while is neither here nor there to his fans, who rightly recognise this flawed genius as cult hero of cricket.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4448601.stm

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1.1 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run
1.2 Khan to Shahid Afridi, one run, played wide of the fielder at mid-off, Afridi off the mark with an easy single
1.5 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, angling across, driven in the air to the mid-off region, once bounce to the fielder moving across to his left
1.6 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, beaten, nicely angling across the right-hander, Afridi was looking to push it away off the front-foot, decent start by Zaheer Khan
2.2 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, SIX, here we go! good length delivery drifting on to the pads, Afridi moves forward and flicks it away well over the square leg fence, clean shot
2.3 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, legbye: two runs, down the leg side, ball clips the pad and runs down to the fine leg region
2.4 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, four more! again Balaji drifting onto the pads, wrong line, turned away beautifully behind square on the leg side, comfortably beats Kumble moving across from fine leg
2.5 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Afridi on fire here! pitched up on the stumps, lofted well over the long-on fence, taken cleanly by the ball-boy behind the ropes, Afridi is running away with this game
2.6 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, smashed to the cover fence for a change, ball was short and wide outside the off stump, another bad delivery put away in style, perfect start for Pakistan, end of an expensive over!
4.1 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Afridi! fulltoss down the leg side, smashed over the deep square leg fence, easy picking, Kumble under pressure straight away
4.2 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, SIX, six more! hit across the line, ball sails over the midwicket fence, nice looking shot, Kumble being taken apart here
change of Angle, Kumble decides to come round the stump to cramp Afridi
4.3 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, no run
4.4 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, wide: no run
4.4 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, lofted down to the long-offboundary, was a mis-hit but got enough bat on it to take the ballto the fence, Afridi on the rampage! this will be over soon atthis rate!
4.5 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Afridi! Afridi! pitched up, loftedover the wide long-on fence, 50 comes up in no time! Afridi at hisdangerous best!
4.6 Kumble to Shahid Afridi, no run
6.1 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, one run, swung across the line to deepmidwicket, there is protection in the deep, just a single
6.5 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, again drifting onto the pads, loftedaway to the fine leg fence, another bad ball put away in style,Afridi moves to 48 in no time!
6.6 Balaji to Shahid Afridi, one run, driven down to long off, easysingle to end the over, Balaji continues to struggle
7.1 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, bouncer, Afridi leans away and avoids it comfortably, one for the over signalledslip and a leg slip in place
7.2 Khan to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, fifty in 20 balls! pitched up on the stumps, driven straight back down the track to the long-off boundary, what an innings! this is now the fastest 50 by any player against India!
7.3 Khan to Shahid Afridi, SIX, fraction short, pulled away way over the midwicket fence, went miles, another good clean hit, and with that Afridi becomes the first cricketer to score 200 Sixes in ODIs!!
7.4 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, slower ball, Afridi makes room and tries to swing it away, ends up with an inside edge, ball rolls behind, keeper moves across to his left and fields
7.5 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, hit straight to the man at midwicket, mis-timed pull
7.6 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, right through, stands his ground and tries to swing it away but fails to make contact
9.1 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, turned away fine, diving effort from Dhoni saves runs
9.2 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, short of a good length delivery outside the off stump, Afridi ends up with a bottom edge, ball rolls away behind the stumps
9.3 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, another good delivery, fraction short and angling in, no width offered, defended to the off side
9.4 Khan to Shahid Afridi, SIX, Another hole in the ozone layer! short ball on the middle and off stump line, pulled away handsomely over the midwicket fence, looked like a mistimed shot but the ball just sailed away!
9.5 Khan to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, fulltoss outside the off stump, driven away into the gap between cover and mid-off, even Kaif could not stop it
9.6 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, defended to cover, end of an expensive over, Pakistan well and truly on track!
10.4 Mongia to Shahid Afridi, SIX, another massive six! dances down the track and lofts it miles over the long-on fence, lands on top of the roof! 100 comes up for Pakistan !
10.5 Mongia to Shahid Afridi, (noball) FOUR, more runs! swept away nicely to the backward square leg fence, Afridi making batting look too easy
10.5 Mongia to Shahid Afridi, SIX, six more! comes down the track and lofts it well over the long-on fence, this is attacking cricket at its best! what a treat!
10.6 Mongia to Shahid Afridi, (noball) no run, oh dear! on the pads, swept away straight to Yuvraj at short fine leg, catch held but… :hehe:
10.6 Mongia to Shahid Afridi, three runs, tossed up outside the off stump, Afridi steps out and lofts it over the cover fielders, not a well timed shot, fielder catches up with the ball just in front of the ropes
11.1 Khan to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, good length delivery, lofted down to long-off, another clean hit, Afridi dealing in just fours and sixes at the moment!
11.2 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, driven to short cover
11.3 Khan to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, take that! pitched up in the slot, driven in the air with tremendous power, for a moment it looked like Kumble at cover had a chance but ball just sailed past him, Afridi more to 96!
11.4 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, slower delivery, Afridi beaten outside the off stump, trying to run it down
11.5 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, another slow ball, Afridi swings across but fails to make contact, ball goes over the stumps
11.6 Khan to Shahid Afridi, no run, yorker, on the middle and leg, defended, end of a good over
12.4 Harbhajan Singh to Shahid Afridi, one run, swept away to fine leg, easy single takes Afridi to 97
13.1 Khan to Shahid Afridi, wide: no run, down the leg side
13.1 Khan to Shahid Afridi, one run, on the middle and leg, defended to short midwicket, dangerous quick single taken, Sehwag fails to hit the stumps at the bowler’s end and Afridi survives
14.1 Harbhajan Singh to Shahid Afridi, FOUR, 100 in just 45 balls! played down to long-on, an unorthodox shot, ball just raced away to the fence, this is now the fastest hundred against India by any Player
14.2 Harbhajan Singh to Shahid Afridi, OUT: bowled’m! defended on the front-foot but not cleanly, ball just rolled back onto the stumps, sad end to a fantastic innings

Pakistan 131/1, Partnership of 131
Shahid Afridi b Harbhajan Singh 102 (46b 10x4 9x6)

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the summary of the above is:
010060464660460141046000000640064603404000114W

21 x 0
5 x 1
1 x 3
10 x 4
9 x 6

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im teaching him english and human anatomy ..u ppl wait for some time and see the difference:D

nain....
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afridi : :Salute:

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-armughal- nice... way to done....

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45 balls

nain....
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I suspect many will typically turn their backs and abuse him again when he doesn’t perform. But Afridi will always have his loyal fans behind him. Even if doesn’t produce the goods we’re behind him all the way. He is a one-man demolition machine, a great entertainer and likeable individual. We love you buddy :cool:

The look on Kumble’s face after he got raped by 3 Afridi Sixes was picturesque :hehe:

~ For Angeloftruth ~
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He got out on 46th ball so thats why it will read 102(46).

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After one day and feeling slightly relaxed following is my take, when the sheer power of hitting sinks in.

Its like when Jonty Rohdes fielded, When Viv Richards batted, or when VVS Laxman is playing in form, or David Gower batting, and some more like these....... YOu dont' remember which country they belong to or they are taking your trip. You just sit and watch for sheer pleasure of cricketing genius.

I think that's what going to happen when I see Afridi coming to bat again. In heart of hearts I won't like him to fire, if playing against India. Though cricketer in me would love to see the sheer power of hitting...
If playing against any other nation, I would love him to fire to see his genius as cricketer..

Pepsi or Coke?
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I think thats the case with all of us. I used to love Jonty Rhodes’ fielding.. except when he played against pak. :stuck_out_tongue: Same with Kaif.. im beginning to call him india’s own jonty rhodes.