Shahid Afridi - In Records

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 from that long list and share it you:

Sadly no one will chat "BOOM BOOM" in ODIs after CWC 2015.

Shahid Afridi - Records in Test Matches

• ·         7^th Youngest player to score a test century at the age of 18 years and 333 days.
• ·         4^th fastest Test 50 (26 balls)
• ·         2^nd Most runs off One Over in Test Cricket (27 against Harbhajan Singh)
• ·         Most SIXES off consecutive deliveries and in a single over (4 to Harbhajan Singh)
• ·         12^th Highest Strike Rate in a Test Innings – 31 off 15 balls vs Australia at Lords (minimum 10 balls faced)

Shahid Afridi - Records in ODI Matches

• ·         3rd Fastest Century (37 balls) vs Sri Lanka
• ·         4^th Fastest Century (45 balls) vs India
• ·         10^th Fastest Century (53 balls) vs Bangladesh
• ·         Youngest to score an ODI Century (16 years 217 days) vs Sri Lanka
• ·          2^nd Fastest 50 (18 balls) – Thrice
• ·         3^rd Fastest 50 (19 balls)
• ·         4^th Fastest 50 (20 balls) – Twice
• ·         5^th Fastest 50 (21 balls) - Thrice
• ·         6^th Fastest 50 (22 balls)
• ·         Most SIXES in all ODI Cricket – 342
• Only Player to hit 50 ODI Sixes against 3 different teams, Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand.
• ·         Most SIXES in an innings for Pakistan
• ·         3^rd Most Man of the Match Awards – 32
• ·         2^nd Most runs in an over – 32 vs CM Bandara
• ·         Highest Career Strike Rate – 116.29 (minimum 1K ODI runs)
• ·         5^th Highest Wicket-Taker in ODIs – 395
• ·         Most Wickets in a single World Cup as Captain – 21 in 2011
• ·         2^nd best bowling figures in ODI History – 7/12 vs West Indies
• ·         One of 4 players with 5000 ODI runs and 250 ODI Wickets – Others: Razzaq, Kallis, Jayasuriya
• ·         One of 2 players with 6000 ODI runs and 300 ODI Wickets – Other: Jayasuriya
• ·         Only player with 7000 ODI runs and 350 ODI Wickets
• ·         Only player to score a 50 and then take a 5-fer in the same game THREE times
• ·         4^th Most matches
• ·         2^nd Highest Ducks in ODIs - 30

 Shahid Afridi - Records in T20I Matches

• ·         First to 50 T20I Wickets
• ·         2^nd Pakistani to 1000 T20I runs
• ·         Only player with 1000 runs and 50 wickets
• ·         3^rd highest wicket-taker
• ·         Most matches in T20Is
• ·         Most Man of the Match Awards - 9
• ·         Most wickets in WT20s – 41

This may be not be the Complete List of Records made by Afridi but the records mentioned above are accurate and true. If you feel I have missed anything important, do mention in the comments.

All stats are updated until 31 January, 2015.