shahid afridi ready to get two successes

شاہد آفریدی کوآٹھ ہزار رنز کاسنگ میل عبور کر نے کیلئے 63 رنز کی تلاش

ویلنگٹن (ویب ڈیسک) شاہد آفریدی کو ون ڈے میں 8 ہزار رنز کا سنگ میل عبور کرنے کیلئے 63 رنز درکار ہیں۔ آفریدی اب تک 390 میچز میں 23.62 کی اوسط سے 7937 رنز بناچکے ہیں جس میں 6 سنچریاں اور 39 نصف سنچریاں شامل ہیں۔ وہ پاکستان کی طرف سے زیادہ رنز بنانے والوں میں چوتھے نمبر پر ہیں۔ انہیں ون ڈے میں 4 سو وکٹوں کا سنگ میل عبور
کرنے کیلئے 9 وکٹوں کی ضرورت ہے، وہ وکٹیں حاصل کرنیوالوں میں چھٹے نمبر پر ہیں۔

shahid afridi changed record book in some balls

ویلنگٹن:  شاہد آفریدی نے چند گیندوں پر ہی ریکارڈ بک الٹ پلٹ دی۔ زیادہ تیزی کے ساتھ رنز بنانے والے ٹاپ 5 بیٹسمینوں میں آل راؤنڈرکا نام دوسری مرتبہ درج ہوگیا۔
انھوں نے نیوزی لینڈ کے خلاف67 رنز 231.03 کے اسٹرائیک ریٹ سے بنائے، یہ ون ڈے اننگز میں کسی بھی آٹھویں نمبر پر بیٹنگ کرنے والے پلیئرز میں دوسرا بڑا اسٹرئیک ریٹ ہے۔ اس فہرست کے ٹاپ 5 بیٹسمینوں میں شاہد آفریدی کا نام 3 مرتبہ شامل ہے۔ حالیہ اننگز میں آفریدی اور دیگر بیٹسمینوں کی اننگز کے اسٹرائیک ریٹ میں 177.97 کا فرق نظر آیا جو کسی بھی ون ڈے اننگز میں چوتھا بڑا فرق رہا۔ ابراہم ڈی ویلیئرز اس فہرست میں ٹاپ پر ہیں۔
جنھوں نے ویسٹ انڈیز کے خلاف 44 بالز پر 149 رنز اسکور کیے تھے۔ اس وقت اسٹرائیک ریٹ میں فرق 229.29 تھا، یہ واحد موقع بنا جب کسی بیٹسمین نے اپنے ساتھی کھلاڑیوں سے 200 فیصد زیادہ تیز رفتاری سے بیٹنگ کی تھی۔ مصباح الحق نے اس میچ میں اپنی 38 ویں ایک روزہ ففٹی مکمل کی۔ وہ ابھی تک اس طرز میں سنچری کا ذائقہ نہیں چکھ پائے، بغیر تھری فیگراننگز کے سب سے زیادہ ففٹیز اسکور کرنے کا ریکارڈ ان کے ہی نام ہے۔ گذشتہ 6 ون ڈے میں پاکستان کے اوپننگ اسٹینڈ کی اوسط 13.33 رہی، یہ سب میچز نیوزی لینڈ کیخلاف ہی کھیلے گئے ہیں۔
یہ مسلسل دوسرا موقع ہے جب پاکستان نے اپنی پہلی وکٹ بغیر کسی اسکور کے گنوائی۔ 39 ویں مرتبہ نیوزی لینڈ نے گرین شرٹس کو ایک روزہ میچز میں شکست دی، جوکسی بھی ٹیسٹ کھیلنے والے ملک کے خلاف تیسری زیادہ فتوحات ہیں، کیویز نے بھارت اور سری لنکا کیخلاف41، 41میچز جیتے ہیں۔ یہ دسواں موقع ہے جب نیوزی لینڈ کے کسی آل راؤنڈر نے ففٹی کے ساتھ تین یا اس سے زائد وکٹیں لیں۔ اس میچ میں گرانٹ ایلیوٹ نے یہ کارنامہ انجام دیا جبکہ آخری مرتبہ جیکب اورم نے زمبابوے کیخلاف59رنز اسکور کرنے کے ساتھ29 رنزکے عوض 3 وکٹیں بھی لی تھیں

amazing stat by shahid afridi

The most experienced Pakistan cricketer at the moment, Shahid Afridi, smashed 67 off 29 balls – studded with three sixes and nine fours – against New Zealand at Wellington today in the first ODI of the two-match bilateral series.
Afridi got to his 50 in 21 balls. This is the ninth time he has scored a half-century in 21 or fewer balls.

Shahid Afridi

That no batsman has scored 50s in less than 21 balls on more than 4 occasions shows how difficult a task it is. In fact, only two batsmen have scored 50s within 21 balls more than once. Brendon McCullum has scored four times, while Mark Boucher has done it twice.
Fastest ODI 50s by Shahid Afridi (21 or less balls)

Balls	Runs	Sixes	Fours	Against	Venue	Date
18	102 (40)	11	6	Sri Lanka	Nairobi	04-10-96
18	55* (18)	6	4	Netherlands	Colombo	21-09-02
18	59 (25)	7	2	Bangladesh	Mirpur	04-03-14
19	65 (25)	5	5	New Zealand	Christchurch	29-01-11
20	102 (46)	9	10	India	Kanpur	15-04-05
20	77* (35)	6	5	South Africa	Durban	07-02-07
21	58 (26)	4	5	Zimbabwe	Multan	30-09-04
21	55 (26)	6	3	New Zealand	Sharjah	14-12-14
21	67 (29)	3	9	New Zealand	Wellington	31-01-15

Numbers of half-centuries in 21 or less balls in ODIs

Number of 50s	Batsman	Team
9	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan
4	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand
2	Mark Boucher	South Africa

Fastest 50s for each test playing team in ODIs

Team	Batsman	Balls	Score	Against	Venue	Date
Australia	Simon O'Donnell	18	74 (29)	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	02-Feb-90
	Glenn Maxwell	18	60 (22)	India	Bangalore	02-Nov-13
Bangladesh	Mohammad Ashraful	21	94 (52)	England	Nottingham	21-Jun-05
	Abdur Razzaq	21	53* (22)	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	05-May-13
England	Paul Collingwood	24	54* (30)	New Zealand	Napier	20-Feb-08
India	Ajit Agarkar	21	67* (25)	Zimbabwe	Rajkot	14-Dec-00
New Zealand	Brendon McCullum	19	80* (28)	Bangladesh	Queenstown	31-Dec-07
	Ross Taylor	19	59* (24)	Ireland	Aberdeen	01-Jul-08
	Brendon McCullum	19	51 (22)	Sri Lanka	Christchurch	11-Jan-15
Paksistan	Shahid Afridi	18	102 (40)	Sri Lanka	Nairobi	04-Oct-96
	Shahid Afridi	18	55* (18)	Netherlands	Colombo	21-Sep-02
	Shahid Afridi	18	59 (25)	Bangladesh	Mirpur	04-Mar-14
South Africa	AB de Villiers	16	149 (44)	West Indies	Johannesburg	18-Jan-15
Sri Lanka	Sanath Jayasuriya	17	76 (28)	Pakistan	Singapore	07-Apr-96
West Indies	Darren Sammy	20	58* (24)	South Africa	Antigua	24-May-10
Zimbabwe	Dougie Marillier	21	56* (24)	India	Faridabad	07-Mar-02

Among associate team players, the fastest half-century has been made by Richie Berrington in 20 balls for Scotland against Ireland at Edinburgh in 2011. Following him is Canada's John Davison, who has a 23-ball 50 against New Zealand at Gros Islet in 2007.
Fastest half-centuries against each team playing team in ODIs

Team	Batsman	Balls	Score	Team	Venue	Date
Australia	Lance Cairns	21	52 (25)	New Zealand	Melbourne	13-Feb-83
Bangladesh	Shahid Afridi	18	59 (25)	Pakistan	Mirpur	04-Mar-14
England	Mohammad Ashraful	21	94 (52)	Bangladesh	Nottingham	21-Jun-05
India	Glenn Maxwell	18	60 (22)	Australia	Bangalore	02-Nov-13
New Zealand	Shahid Afridi	19	65 (25)	Pakistan	Christchurch	29-Jan-11
Paksistan	Sanath Jayasuriya	17	76 (28)	Sri Lanka	Singapore	07-Apr-96
South Africa	Shahid Afridi	20	77* (35)	Pakistan	Durban	07-Feb-07
	Darren Sammy	20	58* (24)	West Indies	Antigua	24-May-10
Sri Lanka	Simon O'Donnell	18	74 (29)	Australia	Sharjah	02-Feb-90
	Shahid Afridi	18	102 (40)	Pakistan	Nairobi	04-Oct-96
West Indies	AB de Villiers	16	149 (44)	South Africa	Johannesburg	18-Jan-15
Zimbabwe	Justin Kemp	19	53* (21)	South Africa	Durban	27-Feb-05

Afridi has the fastest half-century against four teams: Bangladesh, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Fastest half-century against an associate team is in 18 balls by the same player against Netherlands in 2002, and it is followed by 19-ball 50s from Mark Boucher and Ross Taylor against Kenya at Cape Town in 2001 and Ireland at Aberdeen in 2008 respectively.

afridi said he will try to get fastest 100 record again

KARACHI: All-rounder Shahid Afridi has said he will try to wrest back the record of scoring the fastest ODI hundred when Pakistan take on New Zealand in two one-dayers and during the World Cup to make it a memorable farewell for him and his fans from 50 overs cricket. Afridi has announced he will retire from ODIs after the World Cup but continue to play T20 cricket. “You never plan out to set such records. It just happens when you have a very special day and your confidence is sky high. If everything works out for me and it is my special day than I will try to improve the record set by AB de Villiers in New Zealand or in the World Cup,” Afridi said in an interview.

He said that he was happy to see a batsman of de Villiers calibre now hold the record for the fastest fifty and century in ODIs. “He played like a champion to get the record and it was his special day,” he said. Afridi held the record for the fastest one-day hundred for nearly 17 years after blasting 102 off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi. His record was bettered by New Zealand’s Corey Anderson in 2013 in Queenstown against the West Indies by just one ball.

South African de Villiers improved upon the record against the Windies last week scoring a century from just 31 balls. Afridi said he had never dreamed he could get an ODI hundred in 37 balls when he played in the tri series in Nairobi in 1996. “It just happened that day it was my special day and everything clicked. I hope I get another special day in the coming World Cup if it can happen I will try to get back the record of which I was always proud. But realistically speaking I know that at the number I come to bat at these days one can score a half century but it is really difficult to get a hundred but you never know it could my special day,” he said.

Afridi known as “Boom Boom” for his power hitting once hit a hundred against India from 45 balls in Kanpur in 2005. The seasoned all-rounder, around whom they are a lot of expectations in the World Cup, said he would not be surprised if a day came when even chasing down totals of 350 or 400 would become a norm in 50 overs cricket. “After the rule changes in 50 overs cricket and with the popularity of T20 cricket things are now tilted in the favour of batsmen and in coming days we could see even totals of 400 go down easily,” he said. “Limited overs cricket has really changed dramatically in the last couple of years.”

Afridi eyes full fitness, peak form ahead of World Cup

KARACHI: Next year’s ICC World Cup to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand will be Shahid Afridi’s fifth and final appearance in the quadrennial spectacle.

The flamboyant all-rounder also wants to make it his most memorable. “With less than two months to go before the start of the World Cup I am fully focusing on preparing myself for the event,” he told ‘The News’ in an interview. “It is the most important tournament both for Pakistan and me. It is my greatest desire that our team wins the title in Australia,” he added.
Afridi’s main emphasis is on overcoming a couple of fitness worries before he gets started on more serious work. “I have a little elbow problem and there is some issue with a part of the webbing on my right hand. Both are minor issues but I want to get over them so that serious training can begin for the World Cup,” he said.
Afridi has decided to set up a camp in Lahore and will be leaving for the country’s cricket capital on Thursday (today).
“The idea is to be fully fit and be in peak form both with the bat and ball so that I can contribute well to the team’s cause in the World Cup,” he said.
Afridi, 34, and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene are the two most experienced players going into next year’s World Cup, their fifth appearance in the mega event.
Both first played in World Cup in the 1999 edition in England and have appeared in all editions ever since.
Jayawardene featured in the final of the World Cup 2007 and 2011, as well as the semi-final of the World Cup 2003, Afridi was a member of the Pakistan side that played the final at Lord’s in 1999. He captained Pakistan at World Cup 2011 where Pakistan reached the semi-final.
If the two players are named in the final line-ups, likely to be announced on January 8, they will join the company of Wasim Akram, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Aravinda de Silva, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sanath Jayasuriya, Jacques Kallis, Imran Khan, Brian Lara, Muttiah Muralidaran, Thomas Odoyo, Ricky Ponting, Arjuna Ranatunga and Steve Tikolo, who played five ICC Cricket World Cups.
Pakistan’s Javed Miandad and India’s Sachin Tendulkar, with six World Cups each, share the record for the most appearances at ICC’s pinnacle event.

Afridi to quit ODIs after World Cup

Shahid Afridi has said that he will retire from ODIs after the 2015 World Cup. The allrounder will continue to play T20 cricket, the format in which he leads Pakistan, and wants to win the 2016 World T20 in India before quitting international cricket. 

Afridi had stepped in as ODI captain in the recent series against New Zealand in the UAE in place of the injured Misbah-ul-Haq. He put in a strong all-round performance, with 205 runs at a strike-rate of 164 and eight wickets at an economy-rate of 4.03. Afridi told reporters in Karachi that he wanted to go out on a high rather than being asked to leave.

"I am the first Pakistan player to be able to announce his retirement properly," Afridi was quoted as saying by Reuters. "I always wanted to do this having seen the problems faced by other bigger players in the past. It was not an easy decision to take and I think many of my seniors also found it difficult to go out at the right time.

"I want to go out of ODIs with self-respect and with my fans wanting more from me. But no one is indispensable in cricket and I am sure sooner or later someone will take my place in ODIs as well.

"I have informed the Pakistan team management about my decision but not the cricket board as yet. Having taken a decision it is a big burden off my mind and I am confident I will be able to focus on giving my best in the World Cup."

Afridi, who will turn 35 during the World Cup, has played 389 ODIs since hitting the fastest century in his debut innings in October 1996 against Sri Lanka in Nairobi. The record stood for more than 17 years before New Zealand's Corey Anderson broke it in January this year. "I am happy about my achievements and records but the only regret I have is losing fastest ODI century record," Afridi tweeted.

He has scored 7870 ODI runs at an average of 23.49 and a strike-rate of 116.29. He has also taken 391 wickets, the sixth-most in ODIs, at 33.89 and an economy-rate of 4.62. Afridi had quit Tests in 2010 before leading Pakistan to the semi-finals of the 2011 World Cup.

Afridi's fitness has been a matter of some concern in recent times and he was among some Pakistan players fined by the PCB in September for failing to maintain the prescribed level of fitness. The PCB had attached greater importance to fitness in its new contracts and the players will be reassessed this month.

ahmed and afridi made highest total in sharjah

The personality of Pakistan's batting line-up is a gripping study and the chapter that was added in Sharjah could well be a blueprint of how to build an ODI innings. The primary ingredient was a firm century from Ahmed Shehzad and it was supplemented by a stroke-filled fifty from stand-in captain Shahid Afridi as Pakistan rocketed to 364 for 7 - their third-highest total in 50-over cricket and the highest in Sharjah in 218 matches. New Zealand slipped and slid and finally succumbed for 217, beaten with almost 12 overs left.

Pakistan's batsmen were intent on warding off those loose shots that frustrate them and their fans so badly. There was a determined effort to collect singles, which hindered the bowlers' chances of building pressure. Each of the first three partnerships added more than 50 runs to the score with Shehzad being the common denominator. But whatever Pakistan do, there just has to be a see-sawing of fortunes.

Birthday boy Matt Henry took out Shehzad for 113 and Asad Shafiq the very next ball with the score on 210 in the 38th over, but Pakistan managed to circumvent those setbacks thanks to an enterprising partnership between Afridi and Haris Sohail. They added 89 runs in 46 balls and on that steam Pakistan made 125 runs in the last 10 overs. 

The only period of play when New Zealand managed to threaten the target was when Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson were together. Both batsmen seemed highly conscious of not letting scoreboard pressure dictate their strokeplay and they trusted their strength - Taylor his power and Williamson his footwork - to collect their runs. But the end of their union was rather symbolic of how things had been for New Zealand all day.

Taylor, who had showed immense skill cutting from the stumps, was bowled while attempted to do so by an Afridi slider. Tom Latham, too, added to the imagery when his beloved slog sweep found deep square leg to gift Shehzad his first ODI wicket. Pakistan gambled with Sohail's part-time left-arm spin and got three wickets, including Williamson.

No batsman could reach fifty. No partnership could reach fifty. New Zealand had been run over by a stampede in the first innings and just could not recover. Afridi could not hide his smile as it became apparent that victory was only a matter of time. He barely put a foot wrong, right from the toss which he won and watched his batsmen take full advantage.

Having been ruffled by pace previously in the series, Pakistan's strategy was to take on the short ball and an easy-paced pitched helped their endeavor. They also did not need to deal with Adam Milne, the fastest of New Zealand's bowlers and also one of the more injury-prone, rested. Every batsman was keen to pull and Shehzad managed to find the middle of the bat even off the front foot. Midwicket was his most productive area and the pull, his most productive shot.

Shehzad's poise at the crease was striking, so much that at times he was able to hit a selection of his 14 boundaries without much footwork. The four he drilled through point to reach his fifty was set up by shifting his weight onto a rather stationary back foot. He showed off his balance when he ran down the pitch as well, and on one such occasion he heaved a length ball clean out of the stadium in the 20th over. Nathan McCullum, who was brought in place of Daniel Vettori, could only watch.

His constant search for singles - he found 41 of them - facilitated a strike rate just under a-run-a-ball. At times, he wanted a single where there wasn't one and did have a couple of run-out scares. On other occasions he would question his partner when they refused. It almost seemed like he would not accept anything less than a century, judging by how he stole two runs to a dab that barely went past the 30-yard circle at midwicket to move to 99. There are only three Pakistan openers - Saeed Anwar, Salman Butt and Rameez Raja - who have more hundreds than Shehzad's six.

A 63-run opening stand in 47 balls between Shehzad and Mohammad Hafeez had laid the foundation and Afridi fancied himself. Pakistan had listed him down at No. 8 at the toss, but he strode out at No. 5 ahead of the returning Umar Akmal and the red-hot Sarfraz Ahmed. Twenty-five balls of calculated carnage followed. Mis-timed belts sailed over midwicket and square leg, slices pinged to the point and cover boundaries and the straight hits were typically emphatic. By the time he skewed a catch to mid-off, he had made 55 weighty runs to keep a sensational trend alive - he had made 124 of 385 and 102 of 371 in the only two higher totals that Pakistan have made in ODIs.

New Zealand wilted so badly that only one bowler - McCullum - went at under six an over, their over-rate slumped owing to 19 extras and the ball constantly disappearing to the boundary. Their preoccupation with the ticking clock coincided with Sarfraz and Sohail Tanvir caning 22 runs off the final over bowled by Corey Anderson to put the cherry on top.

Pakistan score 364-7 in third ODI

SHARJAH: Pakistan, helped by a brilliant 113 by opener Ahmed Shehzad, notched 364-7 in their 50 overs in the third day-night international against New Zealand in Sharjah on Sunday.

Shehzad hit 12 boundaries and two sixes off 120 balls, his sixth one-day hundred, as Pakistan posted the highest one-day total at Sharjah stadium.
Shahid Afridi (25-ball 55), Haris Sohail (39), Younis Khan (35), Asad Shafiq (33), Mohammad Hafeez (33) and Sarfraz Ahmed(30 not out) also contributed.
Pakistan were without captain Misbah-ul Haq ruled out of the series due to hamstring injury.
The five-match series is tied at 1-1 after Pakistan won the first match by three wickets in Dubai while New Zealand took the second in Sharjah by four wickets.

Jayawardene, Afridi set to become most experienced players in World Cup

Dubai: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today released the provisional squads of 12 teams for the next year‘s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

However co-hosts Australia and minnows Ireland have decided against releasing the names of the players in the provisional list although they have submitted the list of 30-members to the parent body within the stipulated deadline. Since its inception in 1975 with the Prudential Cup, it will be the first edition which won‘t feature either among Javed Miandad (‘75, ‘79, ‘83, ‘87, ‘92, ‘96) or Sachin Tendulkar (‘92, ‘96, ‘99, ‘03, ‘07, ‘11), who have played six editions each.

Sri Lankan legend Mahela Jayawardene and Pakistan‘s flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi are the two most experienced players going into the 2015 World Cup, which will be their fifth appearance in the global edition. Both Jayawardene and Afridi, first played in World Cup during the 1999 edition in England and since then have appeared in all editions. While Jayawardene featured in the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 and 2011, as well as the semi-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003, Shahid Afridi was a member of the Pakistan side that played the final at Lord‘s in 1999.

He captained Pakistan at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 where Pakistan reached the semi-final. If the two players are named in the final line-ups, likely to be announced around 8 January 2015, then they will join the exclusive company of Wasim Akram, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Aravinda de Silva, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sanath Jayasuriya, Jacques Kallis, Imran Khan, Brian Lara, Muttiah Muralidaran, Thomas Odoyo, Ricky Ponting, Arjuna Ranatunga and Steve Tikolo, who have each played in five ICC Cricket World Cups to date. Pakistan‘s Javed Miandad and India‘s Sachin Tendulkar, with six ICC Cricket World Cups each, share the record for the most appearances at ICC‘s pinnacle event. Besides Jayawardene and Shahid Afridi, seven other players are in line to appear in their fourth World Cup: James Anderson, Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Younis Khan, Robin Peterson, Kumar Sangakkara and Daniel Vettori.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is returning the ICC Cricket World Cup for the first time since 1996, has named the oldest and youngest players of the tournament in its 30-player provisional squad. Khurram Khan at 43 is the oldest players (born 21 June 1971) while Yodhin Punja, who turned 15 on 24 April 2014, is the youngest player.