The interpretation of a dream changed Shahid Afridi’s destiny, while what he saw in his sleep in Nairobi, he did the same on the field 2 days later.
Shahid Khan Afridi has bid farewell to the international career by protecting the cricket fans from all over the world with his hard hitting. It also included a 37-ball century scored in just his second international match.
Although later this record was broken first by New Zealand’s Corey Anderson and later by South Africa’s Abraham de Villiers who scored the fastest century in ODI cricket with a three-figure innings off just 31 balls, but the famous What Afridi got from this innings was not in anyone’s share and that changed his fortunes.
Shahid Khan Afridi was on a tour of the West Indies with the Under-19 team in 1996 when he was included in the team as a leg-spinner for the 4-nation tournament due to an injury to Mushtaq Ahmed. Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were also surprised when Johar showed up, the first match was against Kenya.
He told fellow player Shadab Kabir in the morning that he was hitting Jayasuriya and Muralitharan for sixes in his dream, that day in his debut match against Kenya, his batting did not come and despite giving 32 runs in bowling, he lost the wicket, but 2 days later Against Sri Lanka in a one-down position, he came into the field and stopped the first ball and sent the next one over the boundary through the air. And Muralidharan watched the scene of his beating in amazement.
Afridi turned the dream he had in Nairobi into a reality by hitting a century with 11 sixes and 6 fours off 37 balls and it changed his entire life.
Shahid Afridi also remembers the innings played against Australia in Hobart in 2005 in which he hit McGrath with 2 sixes and 3 fours and Brett Lee with 2 sixes and a boundary. 56 runs were scored on balls.
He said, “Records are never thought out, they come to lucky cricketers, when you play well against world class bowlers, the joy is doubled.”
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2024-08-24 20:40:13
