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Shahid Afridi has shocked the cricketing world by announcing his retirement from Test match cricket! The surprise stems from the fact that he was only into his first Test match as the captain of the side, and was playing only his first Test match since coming back after 2007 when he made this decision.
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Pakistan cricket captain in all the three formats of the game, Shahid Afridi, has spoken to Mohammad Yousuf to get him to come out of retirement and play for the country again. Yousuf has retired from international cricket after the PCB banned him from playing cricket indefinitely and did not appeal against the ban.
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PCB has appointed Shahid Afridi as the captain of the Pakistan side to feature in the ICC World T20 this year in the West Indies. Pakistan, who had won the tournament last year by beating Sri Lanka in the final was without a captain after most of their captain-material players were eight banned for an year or more or were fined and hence not in reckoning. Afridi was one of them but the PCB chief, Ejaz Butt seems to have pardoned him for the lapses and appointed him the skipper.
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Pakistan cricket continues to shock and awe. Just when they were getting a little overly fidgety about the IPL exclusion, has come another blow. On the Australian tour, Pakistani captain for the T20Is as well as the last ODI of the series, Shahid Afridi, has been suspended by the ICC for the next two international games.
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The Pakistani cricket is said to be puzzling on most occasions. And on the tour of Australia, it continues to go into doldrums as the suspense around who will keep wickets for the Pakistani side in the third Test match at Hobart continues unabated.
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Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has said that the advent and the existing love for the T20 format of the game will have an adverse impact on the other formats of the game in Pakistan. In a rather startling statement, he said that such a format will finish off Pakistan cricket if not controlled properly.
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