Shahid Afridi took his 200th wicket in One Day Internationals (ODIs) today. He is now World’s 27th and Pakistan’s 6th bowler to achieve this milestone.
The top 10 list of Pakistani wicket takers in ODIs is below. The ranking in parenthesis is their World Ranking in terms of highest career wickets.
- Wasim Akram (World #1) 502 wickets at 23.52 runs/wicket
- Waqar Younis (World #3) 416 wickets at 23.84 runs/wicket
- Saqlain Mushtaq (World #10) 288 wickets at 21.78 runs/wicket
- Abdul Razzak (World #16) 245 wickets at 31.04 runs/wicket
- Shoaib Akhtar (World #23) 208 wickets at 23.33 runs/wicket
- Shahid Afridi (World #27) 201 wickets at 35.38 runs/wicket
- Imran Khan (World #33) 182 wickets at 26.61 runs/wicket
- Aaqib Javed (World #34) 182 wickets at 31.43 runs/wicket
- Mushtaq Ahmed (World #37) 161 wickets at 33.29 runs/wicket
- Abdul Qadir (World # greater than 50) 132 wickets at 26.16 runs/wicket
I remember Shahid Afridi when he used to play against our teams in Gulshan Iqbal. Our team used to play with his team since he used to live 3 streets further to us.
Shahid started with his game in tape ball and was a popular tape ball LAPAAROO (a slang term we used to use for player used to try sixes for each game). After a while he was a good player in gulshan where he used to represent a number of teams in the games.
I remember the first time when he got a break in Australia where he brought laurels to home. We had small celebration in honor for him in our Mohalla where he brought his Man of the series Cup.
Interestingly, we have a small market where his brother used to come for shopoping. He was always bombarded with questions like “yaar aaj tumharay bhai nay koi chakka nahin lagaya” or yaar aaj woh out of gaya”. Sometimes his brother would get annoyed of the questions.
@BitterTruth,
Imran and other older players did not play as much one-day cricket…ODIs really started during their time with the Kerry Packer stuff and everything.
I think Wasim’s generation was the first that had regular ODIs from when they started playing.
2 surprises in the article
i) Shahid surpassing Imran
ii) his actual name is so long “Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi”
:)
lol Waise seriously Afridi is actually quite a reliable bowler,i still cant forget the Tendulker wicket he took Last year(Clean Bowled,Midle Stump).Way to go Man,Keep up the good Work!
Batting naaa sahee bowling hii sahee :)
**Bravo afridi …!