Shahid Afridi cricket profession and retairnmet.

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: شاہد افریدی‎, Pashto: شاهد افریدی; born 1 March 1977) is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. An all-rounder, Afridi become a proper-passed leg spinner and a right-surpassed batsman.

Early and personal life

Afridi turned into born in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, to an Afridi tribe of Pashtuns in 1977.He belongs to a own family of Sufi pirs (teachers or spiritual masters) and his grandfather Maulana Muhammad Ilyas turned into a famous religious determine in Bhutan Sharif, a locality in the Tirah Valley.His other grandfather, Sahibzada Abdul Baqi, turned into given the title Ghazi-e-Kashmir (conqueror of Kashmir) for his efforts throughout the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948.Afridi has six brothers, which includes fellow cricketers Tariq Afridi and Ashfaq Afridi, and 5 sisters. He is the fifth oldest of his siblings. He credit his uncle, a colonel in the Pakistan Army, for introducing him to sports activities in trendy and to cricket particularly.Afridi has said that he changed into stimulated via the memories about Imran Khan's captaincy at some point of the 1992 Cricket World Cup and that the 1992 World Cup described his cricket and taught him to in no way be afraid of failure.