Shahid Afridi wins 2013 Best ODI bowling performance award for his majestic 7 wkts for 12 runs.

Included in the team as an all-rounder, Shahid Afridi took home the award for Best ODI Bowling Performance of 2013 at the ESPNcrickinfo awards held on Friday.

The awards recognise the best individual batting and bowling performances of the year in cricket. They are voted on by an independent jury of former cricketers, commentators and ESPNcrickinfo’s senior writers.
India’s Rohit Sharma won the ODI Batting Award for while Sachin Tendulkar took home the award for Cricketer of the Generation.
Previous winners of the prestigious cricket awards include Dale Steyn, Virender Sehwag, Shahid Afridi and Kumar Sangakkara.

#‎CricinfoAwards‬: And the winners are:
Test batting: Shikhar Dhawan (Mohali v Aus);
Test bowling: Mitchell Johnson: (Adelaide v Eng);
ODI batting: Rohit Sharma (Bangalore v Aus);
ODI bowling: Shahid Afridi (Georgetown v WI)
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Two Legends In One Pic

Fastest bowler and the fastest batsman of the history.

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Afridi goes ‘Boom Boom’ in win against Bangladesh

DHAKA: Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by three wickets to book their place in the final of the Asia Cup. 

Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat setting a record target of 327 for Pakistan. In response Pakistan got off to a steady start behind openers Ahmed Shahzad’s century (103 off 112) and Muhammad Hafeez’s 52 of 55 balls.
After Shahzad’s dismissal the run rate increased and it seemed the match was no longer within the reach of Pakistan. Once again Shahid Afridi proved to be the difference maker. In a similar performance to that against India, Afridi went into ‘Boom Boom’ mode blasting 59 of 25 balls in an innings which included seven sixes.
Afridi opened the doors for a Pakistan win and it was Fawad Alam who ensured that there was no looking back. The left-hander hit 74 off 70 balls including a couple of late inning sixes.
Pakistan set a new record of achieving their highest chase when Umar Akmal hit the winning stroke.
Earlier, Bangladesh piled up a huge total of 326 runs for three wickets, which is their highest-ever total in an ODI innings.
Opener Anamul Haque made 100 off 132 balls with six boundaries and four sixes. This was his second century in One-day International cricket. This was also the second individual hundred by a Bangladeshi batsman in this tournament.
Among other batsmen, Imrul Kayes scored 59 from 75 balls with five fours and two sixes, Mominul Haque hit 51 off 47 balls with six fours, Mushfiqur Rahim smashed 51 off 33 balls with eight fours while Shakib Al Hasan playing for the first time in the tournament blasted an unbeaten 44 from just 16 balls with six fours and two sixes.
During the Bangladesh innings Pakistani spinner Abdur Rehman was stopped from bowling in the match when he delivered three consecutive above the wait no-balls in the 11th over.

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Most Man Of The Matches Awards In ODI.

Afridi, Ponting and Kallis at number 3 in the list of players to have won the most man of the match awards in ODIs.

1) Tendulkar 463 ODIs- 62 MOM
2) Jayasuriya 445 ODIs- 48 MOM
3) Afridi 377 ODIs- 32 MOM
-Kallis 325 ODIs- 32 MOM
-Ponting 375 ODIs- 32 MOM

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Guess This Shot???

What a shot it was.. Remembered? It is called good cricketing shot.

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Give Respect, Get Respect

AFRIDI 59 on 25 balls
Man Of The Match

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Magical Afridi wins it for Pakistan at the death

Shahid Afridi smashed back-to-back sixes in the final over to clinch a dramatic one-wicket win over India in their Asia Cup clash in Mirpur.

Shahid Afridi celebrates Pakistan's victory

With just last-man Junaid Khan in support, Afridi launched Ravichandran Ashwin over the ropes to move Pakistan a step closer to claiming a place in the final.

India, who had posted 245 for eight, now face the prospect of missing out on next Saturday's decider after their death bowling was again called into question.

It had looked very different when Bhuvneshwar Kumar struck twice in the penultimate over to leave Pakistan needing 10 from the final six balls.

Ashwin then immediately bowled Saeed Ajmal around his legs, but when Junaid got off strike Afridi (34 not out) ended the game in typically brutal fashion with two balls to spare.

Rohit Sharma (56) and Ambati Rayudu (58) hit half-centuries for India before Ravindra Jadeja smacked an unbeaten 52 from 49 balls to leave Pakistan with a testing total to chase on a slow pitch.

Ajmal underlined the effectiveness of the slow bowlers with three for 40, while Mohammad Hafeez and debutant Mohammad Talha grabbed two wickets apiece.

Hafeez then paced the Pakistan chase with 75, from 117 balls, but was fifth man out in the 44th over with 200 on the board.

Afridi picked up the slack and while the tail fell around him the all-rounder dramatically dragged his side across the line, finishing unbeaten on 34 from 18 balls.

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