Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi known as Shahid Afridi is a former Pakistani cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. An all-rounder, Afridi was a right-handed leg spinner and a right-handed batsman.
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Afridi made his ODI debut in 1996 against Kenya. In his second ODI match against Sri Lanka, he played his first international innings and broke the record for the fastest century in ODI cricket (doing so in 37 deliveries).
Afridi made his T20I debut against England in 2006. Afridi was named player of the tournament of the 2007 T20 World Cup. He was not selected afterwards and on 19 February 2017, Afridi announced his retirement from international cricket.
He made a brief return to international cricket after being selected to represent and captain the World XI against the West Indies in the 2018 Hurricane Relief T20 Challenge charity match.
Following the conclusion of the match, Afridi announced his retirement from international cricket again on 31 May 2018.
Shahid Afridi Children: How Many Children Does Shahid Afridi Have?
He is married to his maternal cousin Nadia Afridi and has five daughters. In 2021, Afridi announced his eldest daughter Aqsa’s engagement to cricketer Shaheen Afridi.
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Who Are Shahid Afridi’s Children?
The former cricketer has five daughters named Aqsa, Ansha, Arwa, Ajwa, and Asmara.
Former captain of the Pakistan cricket team, Shahid Afridi recently revealed why the names of all his daughters start with the letter ‘A’.
Speaking during a talk show aired on a private TV channel, Afridi told the host of the show, Shahzad Roy, that there was no special reason for giving his daughters names that start with the letter A.
“It was a mere coincidence,” the former skipper said.
He further explained that when his eldest daughter was born, his father named her Aqsa. On the birth of the second daughter, Afridi named her Ansha because he liked that name.
After the first two had been given names starting with an ‘A’, Afridi told his wife that all their children would be given names starting with ‘A’.
He added that at that time, he had no idea that all his children would be girls and he would coincidentally end up giving them names starting with the letter A.
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