Shaheen Shah Afridi becomes the first Pakistani bowler to take 4 consecutive wickets.
He achieved this record in a match between Hampshire and Middlesex.
Shaheen Shah is playing from Hampshire. He seem to be in great form during a match between these two teams and he gave a tough time to the batsmen of Middlesex.
Delivering an outstanding spell Shaheen stoped the MiddleSex on 121/6 against a target of 142/6 after getting four wickets in a row.
He took 6 wickets in total while giving only 19 runs. In this match played in Southampton, Afridi destroyed the top line of the Middlesex batsmen and helped his team for a great win.
That's it. That's the tweet. pic.twitter.com/tmh1gdBCcg
— Hampshire Cricket (@hantscricket) September 20, 2020
He is now the first Pakistani bowler to do so and sixth in the world. He took 4 successive wickets on four consecutive balls and set a world record while completing his Hat Trick.
Earlier in the T20, Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan and Sri Lanka’s Leith Malinga in international matches, while West Indies’ Andre Russell against India A, Bangladesh’s Al-Amin Hussain, India’s Abhimanyu Mathews and James Allenby in various domestic matches earned this unique record.
Earlier Amir Yamin have done this in T10 league.
Aims
Fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi says the county season with Hampshire has taught him a lot that will come in handy in the future.
Shaheen is now ambitious to give prominent performances in Pakistan Super League, in the remaining matches of the league to be held in November. He said, his team Lahore Qalandars will do their best.
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Track Record
Shaheen Shah has taken 13 wickets in this season of PSL and is only 2 wickets behind Husnain. He wants to be lead wicket taker in the season.
On giving the tremendous performance in Blast20 League, ICC tweeted about his marvelous performance.
Shaheen Shah has played 15 T20 matches while being in Pakistani team and got 18 wickets in total.
He seems outstanding in Test matches and OdI’s as in 11 test matches he got 35 wickets for Pakistan and 40 wickets in 19 balls.
Pakistani Cricket fans are happy over his great performance and are applauding him widely over social media.
While some fans seem to be asking him that why he is unable to perform in Pakistan at this level.
Just don’t understand why he can’t bowl Yorkers like these for Pakistan
— Fawwad M Haider (@fawwadhaider) September 21, 2020
Earlier in the match against England Shaheen was a member of squad.
After the scheduled matches of PCB he along with some other cricketers stayed there for this county.
Babar Azam is also doing well in the game and scored a century in last match.
