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Shahid Afridi - In Records

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No one in this world would have known that a boy born on March 1, 1980 in Khyber Agency,  Federally Administrated Tribal Areas of Pakistan will grow up to be cricket's greatest superstar. Selected to bowl leg-spins, Shahid Khan Afridi in his career's 2nd international appearance smashed a 37-ball 100 against Sri Lanka in 1996 that remained a world record for Fastest Century in ODI Cricket for 18 record years and that 16 year old boy still holds that record of Youngest to score a ODI Century . Shahid Afridi's signature style of celebration Now after 18 years of great service to the Pakistan Cricket fraternity, Shahid Afridi wants to retire from ODIs after the World Cup in February-March 2015. When we look back at his career, there is a long list of matches he won us single-handedly, a long list of little but important contributions and an even long list of records that he made or broke during his adrenaline-filled career. I have managed to get a handful of records fr