Karachi: The extra exciting Shahid Afridi has become the first man to appear in the 50th match of the shortest version of Cricket. The crowd puller clinched this staggering record yesterday againstSri Lanka, scoring unbeaten 52 off 33 balls in his half century appearance.
Shahid Afridi, well-recognized of Boom Boom has also become the first ever Cricketer to score 800+ runs and take 50+ Wickets in Twenty20I.
Afridi, 32, who was declared man of the match in the game played yesterday, has now most such awards in T20Is carrying 7 Man of the Match surpassing Sanath Jayasuriya and Kevin Pietersen in getting most such awards, both the cricket giants have 6 MOM Awards each.
It is to mention here that Afridi scored his 4th T20I fifty yesterday, third againstSri Lanka, first since August 2009. Last time Afridi scored fifty was when he first captainedPakistan. Afridi was also Man of the match in his first ever T20I.