@LapisLazuli2293@AnujSet02569374@asadfacts don't act too woke here we all know how half ur nation is dehati where women are hidden in ghunghat. Most still wont want ur women to play on field infront of men
@LapisLazuli2293@AnujSet02569374@asadfacts dats exactly what ur dad would have said for u sisters in 2010s bec of our culture . He didn't say to disrespect women but bec of their security now times changed he backs women cricket many times u moron
cricket is thankful u didn't listen to ur coaches who wanted to change u into 50 (80) defensive player instead of polishing ur 30 (18) attacking intent. fought entire system to bless us>>>
AB de Villiers had one year with a true strike rate that insane. Shahid Afridi’s whole career looked like that, and we called him inconsistent.
Before anyone talks about Afridi the T20 player, you have to go back to Afridi the ODI player, because that is where it all started, and that is where the misunderstanding started too.
The pattern is right there once you know how to look. The man simply refused to bat within himself. During his best years, his true strike rate, his rate relative to the average batter in the same matches, was regularly over 40. His lowest in any calendar year was still slightly below 14. To put that in perspective, AB de Villiers had one year like that, 2015, and we still talk about it as a freak season. Afridi’s entire career was that season.
For years, we mocked him for it. The inconsistency, the low scores, the refusal to compile like proper batters. But metrics like true values have finally caught up with what he was actually doing: playing T20 cricket in ODIs before T20 cricket existed. He was not failing at the old game. He was early to the new one.
And the bat is only half of it. As a bowler, Afridi sat well above par on both true economy and true wickets per 10 overs across his five best years. His true economy beat par by 0.2 or more in nine separate calendar years. He finishes as a negative just twice in an international career that ran for more than two decades. Those are elite leg spinner’s returns on their own, before you add a single run he scored.
Cricket has produced players ahead of their time before. Victor Trumper. Viv Richards. It is time to say it plainly: Shahid Afridi belongs on that list.
(Content copied from @ajarrodkimber video
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