Modern cricket has not really done Shahid Afridi any favours. His records have gone and Twenty 20 has eaten into his niche. All that’s left is a poor one day batting average and moderate respect for his oddly reliable one day bowling.
So to truly understand why, Shahid Afridi is one of my Superstar of Cricket, we have to go back. It’s not enough to merely look back either. We have to do more than that. We have to imagine that we are actually there in the past ignorant of all that is to come. We have to go back to an era when sixes were just sixes not ‘maximums’ and when scoring at a run a ball was a thing.
Shahid Afridi is very famous in allover the world. Afridi play in cricket as a captain of Pakistan's team.
In sport, I’m a huge fan of the spanner in the works player. Quite often you can measure Team A against Team B and reach a decent conclusion about which is likely to win. Midway through a match, things will have become clearer still.
Okay, sometimes a match is in the balance right up until the final ball, but it is far more likely that the final result will be obvious long before then. However, someone like Afridi is basically a human caveat.
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