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Let's celebrate the best moments of Shahid Afridi's career

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So since 2012 Afridi was no longer the Afridi we know of. He had a long career and is a world cup winner.

What is your best Afridi moment?

Mine would be his 141 in India 1999. He is our last link to the 90s era.

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The 2009 T20 WC semi and final. He was the MVP of that WC. Almost singlehandedly won it for us.
 
The 2009 T20 WC semi and final. He was the MVP of that WC. Almost singlehandedly won it for us.

Afridi's all-round performance was excellent but it was a collective effort that won us the trophy not one man.

To say Afridi was singlehandedly responsible insults the bowling of Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Amir, the captaincy of Younis Khan, the batting of Kamran Akmal who ended up our highest scorer and Abdul Razzaq who provided crucial balance to our team.
 
Afridi's all-round performance was excellent but it was a collective effort that won us the trophy not one man.

To say Afridi was singlehandedly responsible insults the bowling of Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Amir, the captaincy of Younis Khan, the batting of Kamran Akmal who ended up our highest scorer and Abdul Razzaq who provided crucial balance to our team.

Yes yes I understand that, I said "almost singlehandedly". Didn't mean completely. The other players were very important in our success too, however, Afridi was the talisman.
 
Played international cricket for 20 years and his best innings is where he edged more than he middled??

his best was the 2009 WC semi and final and he is the most mediocre of all the fan loved superstars.
 
I have many issues with Afridi, overall I feel he left a negative impact on Pakistan cricket. However no one can deny how much that t20 world cup meant to the nation. It was an incredibly depressing time and it gave everyone a bit of joy, you cant ever forget Afridi's ( and even YK) part in that.
 
I started watching cricket in 2009 and my first match happened to be the semi final of the t20 wc. Since that my favourites are that wc win, 2010 Asia Cup centuries vs BD and SL, 2011 wc bowling heroics, 158 m six vs SA in 2013, 2014 Asia Cup vs BD and ever since then he was mostly just there.
 
I have many issues with Afridi, overall I feel he left a negative impact on Pakistan cricket. However no one can deny how much that t20 world cup meant to the nation. It was an incredibly depressing time and it gave everyone a bit of joy, you cant ever forget Afridi's ( and even YK) part in that.

Arguably Misbah had a bigger negative impact on Pakistan than Afridi.

In case you forgot captain fantastic managed to bring us to the very bottom of LOI rankings. Then left us with a worse version of himself for the next two years.
 
Only in Pakistan would they celebrate 20 years of mediocrity ..
 
75(65) and 5/35 vs SL at Sharjah
76(55) and 7/12 vs WI at Providence
:afridi :afridi1
 
Arguably Misbah had a bigger negative impact on Pakistan than Afridi.

In case you forgot captain fantastic managed to bring us to the very bottom of LOI rankings. Then left us with a worse version of himself for the next two years.

No brother. Everyone has their biases, but your extreme hate towards Misbah is unwarranted.

Misbah might have been a poor LOI captain, but he also took us to #1 in the test rankings. Whether we deserved the #1 ranking or not is debatable, but the fact is we were the best test team in the world under Misbah-ul-Haq.

Afridi was also poor as captain. Several threads have been created comparing the performances of the same players under Afridi and Misbah (our so called talented players had worse records under Afridi when compared to their performances under Misbah). Waqar Younis in 2011 said something along the lines of, "Afridi doesn't have a plan when he steps on the field."

Afridi's off field antics during his final captaincy stint shouldn't be ignored. He kept blaming everyone else for the team's poor performances and never accepted his mistakes. He didn't pick a specialist spinner for the T20 WC match against India, which was on a minefield. The way he sucked up to opposition captains and their players was pathetic. Instead of backing his players during post-match presentations, he literally said "our players need to learn how to play from Kohli." That is something you're supposed to say behind closed doors, not when over a billion people are listening to you on TV.
 
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I'm sorry but I would have a game changer any day in my team who can actually hit a boundary unlike the current lot

A game changer who is more renowned for his ducks than his hitting ability.

I don't mind discussing Afridi objectively, but blind fans need a dose of reality.
 
MOst recentls

Asia Cup 2014 vs Bangla & IND

WI Series in Carribbean where took 7fer
An ODI in Sharjah vs SL where he took 5fer and 50
WT20 final vs SL 2009
 
The 2 6's against India in the asia cup were special, the century when he was 16 years old, the catch against New Zealand in the wt20. Lets be real Afridi was always a bowler, he blindly swung his way to a century all those years ago,which shaped the rest of his career, for better or for worse. Had that innings never happened, would we be here celebrating his bowling??
 
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