Pakistani allrounder Shahid Afridi Thursday declared he would resign from Twenty20 cricket one year from now, finishing a beautiful global vocation which earned him unmatched ubiquity in his country. The 35-year-old resigned from one-day cricket after a month ago's World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand where Pakistan came to the last eight, yet said he would keep on playing the most limited manifestation of the diversion.
"I will resign from Twenty20 cricket after one year from now's World Twenty20," Afridi, who left Test cricket in 2010, told columnists. "I will keep on playing province in England and a couple of Twenty20 associations however my universal profession will end one year from now."
India have the 6th release of the World Twenty20 in March-April one year from now, where Afridi said he planned to leave on a high.
"I need to complete my profession with wonderful recollections and had never thought I will play for Pakistan for so long," said Afridi.
Shockingly accepted at the youthful age of 16, Afridi stood out as truly newsworthy around the globe when he crushed a 37-ball hundred in just his second one-day universal, against Sri Lanka in Nairobi in 1996, setting a world record.
The record remained until a year ago when it broken by New Zealand's Corey Anderson with a 36-ball hundred and afterward bettered by South Africa's AB de Villiers who hustled to a century off only 31 balls, against the West Indies in January this year.
Afridi, known for his silly way to deal with batting, his apt leg-breaks and great looks, keeps up the world record for most sixes: 453 over all arrangements of the diversion.
He was designated Twenty20 commander a year ago, having prior driven Pakistan in one-day internationals and Tests also.
He scored 8,064 runs in 398 one-day internationals yet fell only five shy of 400 wickets.
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