The startling numbers from Afridi's career

Twenty20 Internationals

1 – the number of Pakistan players with 1000 runs and 50 wickets in T20 Internationals, with Afridi the only member of this club. In his 98-match career, the last of which was against Australia in last year’s World T20, he amassed 1405 runs and claimed 97 wickets. Just two other allrounders in the world have done the double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets – West Indies’ Dwayne Bravo and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan. 

97 – the number of wickets taken by Afridi in T20Is, the most by anyone in the game’s shortest format and 12 more than the next best Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul who both have 85 scalps. Afridi was the first bowler to bag 50 wickets in T20Is, reaching the milestone against New Zealand in December 2010. But Afridi’s retirement means the 100-wicket barrier looks like it will remain elusive for a number of years yet.

150.75 – the batting strike rate of Afridi in T20 Internationals, the highest by any batsman with at least 1000 runs. In total, he scored 1405 runs off 932 balls with the help of 102 fours and 73 sixes (the most by any Pakistan batsman). Of 35 batsmen who have scored 1000 runs in T20Is, Afridi is the only batsman with a strike rate in excess of 150. 

11 – the number player-of-the-match awards won by Afridi in T20Is, the most by any player in the format. Afridi’s form with both bat and ball was instrumental in Pakistan’s success in the 2009 World T20; two of those 11 awards came in the semi-final and the final of that tournament. The allrounder scored 51 and took two wickets in the semi-final at Trent Bridge against South Africa and struck a match-winning 54 not out in the final at Lord’s against Sri Lanka.

39 – the number of wickets taken by Afridi in WT20 tournaments, the most by any bowler. He has featured in all six editions of the showpiece event from 2007 and 2016. He was named player-of the-tournament in the first World T20 in 2007, mainly due to his exploits with the ball. 

60 – the number of sixes conceded by Afridi in T20Is. As a bowler, he holds the unwanted record of conceding the most maximums in T20Is, eight more than the next highest (52 by Ravichandran Ashwin). Afridi has also conceded 168 fours in T20Is, again the most by any bowler. 

6 – the number of golden ducks made by Afridi, the most by any batsman in T20Is. Overall he has been dismissed for nought on eight occasions and six of them were first-ballers, including one in the final against India in the 2007 WT20. Next on the list is Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan who has been dismissed five times off his first ball.  

One-day internationals

351 – the number of sixes hit by Afridi, the most by any batsman in ODI history and 81 more than the next best, Sri Lanka great Sanath Jayasuriya (270 sixes). In his 398-match career, Afridi scored 8064 runs, 26.11 percent of those runs coming through sixes. Of batsmen with at least 2000 runs in ODIs, only Kieron Pollard (28.83) has a higher percentage of runs scored by sixes. 

117 – Afridi’s ODI batting strike-rate, the highest among batsmen with at least 100 innings. He scored 8064 runs off 6892 balls at a strike rate of 117.00 courtesy of 730 fours and 351 sixes. 

16 – Afridi’s age when he scored 100 off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi in 1996 which was his maiden ODI knock and was the fastest 50-over hundred at the time. The record for fastest century has since been bettered twice; by Corey Anderson in 2014 and then AB de Villiers in 2015. But at 16 years and 217 days, Pakistani remains the youngest batsman to ever score an ODI ton. He is also the youngest to score 1000 runs in ODIs, reaching the milestone at the age of 17 years and 215 days in 1997. 

6 – the number of times Afridi has scored 50 off 20 balls or less in ODIs, the most by any batsman. He’s reached 50 off 18 balls three times, twice off 20 balls and once off 19 balls. Brendon McCullum (four) is next on the list. Afridi has also scored 50 off 21 balls three times which means that nine of the fastest 10 ODI half-centuries by Pakistan batsmen have come off Afridi’s bat.

395 – the number of wickets taken by Afridi in ODIs, the fifth most in history and second most among spin bowlers. Only Chaminda Vaas (400), Waqar Younis (416), Wasim Akram (502) and Muttiah Muralitharan (534) have more ODI scalps than Afridi.

7-12 – Afridi’s figures in a 2013 ODI against West Indies in Guyana, the second best bowling analysis in international 50-over history and the best by any spinner. Before that memorable spell, he’d also starred with the bat, having scored 76 off 55 balls to rescue Pakistan from a precarious position. 

3 – the number of times Afridi has scored a 50 and taken five wickets in the same ODI. No other player in history has achieved this feat more than once. Afridi first did it against England in Lahore in 2000 and then against Sri Lanka in Sharjah in 2011. The third and last such instance was in the previously mentioned match against West Indies in Guyana. 

2 – the number of allrounders with 5000 runs and 300 wickets in ODIs. Afridi is just the second player after Sri Lanka’s Jayasuriya to achieve this feat. 

30 – the number of ducks made by Afridi in ODIs, the second most by any batsman and just four behind the unwanted record held by Jayasuriya (34).