Pakistan---And Cricket
Pakistan is regarded as one of the most unpredictable side in all the three formats of the game. Be it on the loosing side by giving away the easiest of matches or be it on the winning side by thrashing the opposing side in one of the most unexpected ways you can think of. Pakistan can never be taken lightly especially in the field of cricket no matter what the reason is, Pakistan will always be in the limelight of almost everything. From the players being involved in spot fixing, to the keeper running away from the hotel, to the team reaching to the World Cup semi final, to the unexpected change in captaincy and to whatever extent you can imagine but still you just cannot exclude Pakistan from any PART of cricket.
Now moving on towards that what were the major reasons for the removal of one of the most successful captain’s i.e Shahid Khan Afridi who commonly is known as BOOM BOOM even though he performed great as a captain to take the Pakistanis to the World cup semifinal. Afridi not only took the team to the semi finals in the world cup but also took Pakistan to very close finishes to the ODI series against England and South Africa even though that was the moment when Pakistan was in 1) a restructuring mode, 2) Had the new spot fixing scandal on them, and lastly Pakistan wicket keeper Haider had run away from the hotel. He was the man who brought the team together and now when you see the same team performing under another captain, we give the credit to Misbah-ul-Haq. Why?Shahid Afridi may be unpredictable but is a brave leader, who has not only performed as a captain but also as a player, not forgetting that he was the highest wicket taker in the world cup.
Records by Afridi:
1) The World’s fastest ODI century
2) He has hit sixes more than any player in ODI cricket
3) Most amount of sixes combined in all the three formats
4) He has the highest strike rate than any other batsmen
5) The Youngest ODI batsmen to score a century
6) The 10th highest wicket taker of all time in ODI cricket
7) The highest wicket taker in T20
These are some of the records he holds worldwide where as there are even more of them for just Pakistan. So all this proves him to be one of the biggest asset to the Pakistani team.
BOOM BOOM PAKISTAN….!!!!
