Shahid Afridi Net Worth 2024: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki

Shahid Afridi is an international Pakistani cricketer and all-rounder in his performances. He is one of the richest among international cricketers in the world. He is known as a boom boom due to his tremendous hitting style with the bat. He is also known for being one of the fastest ODI century holders, making it in 37 deliveries.

Maybe you know about Shahid Afridi very well but do you know how old and tall is he and what is his net worth in 2024? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of Shahid Afridi’s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today’s net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you’re ready, let’s start.

Early Life & Biography

Shahid Afridi’s passion for cricket started at the age of eleven. His incredible performance at the under 19 championships taken place around the 1994-95 season. Afridi helped his team to win title picking 42 wickets at an average of 9.59 after that he was selected to teh national team. He played well under Karachi whites with England team A and West Indies youth team in the senior national championship.

Afridi was introduced to ODI as a replacement for Mushtaq Ahmed. His debutant match was with Kenya on 2 October. Afridi marked his history in One-day International cricket by hitting a century in just 37 balls; later, this record was broken by Corey Anderson from 36 balls and by AB de Villiers in 31 shots on 18 January 2015.

Personal Life

Shahid Afridi being former captain of Pakistan national cricket team was consistent with spin than pace. He drew the attention of the audience with his hitting style with a bang. His autobiography is named Game changer, which was commenced in 2019. It has been reported that Afridi was born in Khyber, Pakistan, and belonged to the Pashtuns tribe. Afridi is married to Nadia Afridi, his cousin, and has cute five daughters.

Age, Height, and Weight

Being born on 1 March 1975, Shahid Afridi is 54 years old as of today’s date 26th April 2024. His height is 1.80 m tall, and his weight is 77 kg.

Career

Starting his career as a replacement in 1994, he has played several matches, which created history fir Pakistan in the one-day internationals. The first match for Sameer cup was played in 1996-97 as a spinner, which was a match in which he didn’t bat. Next in a game against Sri Lanka, Afridi smashed a record for the fastest century in 37 balls.

Afridi was though named Man of the Match in which Pakistan posted a total of 371, runs which were second highest in the ODI’s. Afridi continued his journey again by appearing in the test match against Australia on 22 October 1998, followed by Pakistan’s tour of India in which 141was scored from 191 balls in the same game he took three wickets giving out 54 runs.

Afridi continued his presence in test cricket in a game against India in March 2005, scoring a half-century. In this match, he took 100 runs from 45 balls. Later he was banned from test match for damaging the pitch against England, as television channel correctly captured the surface. On 12 April 2006, Afridi retired from test cricket and entirely concentrated for world cup 2007. he later played matches in 2009 and 2016 Twenty 20 ICC world cup matches.

Awards & Achievements

Shahid Afridi holds the record of taking the most number of wickets as a captain in T20’s. He smashed the longest six in cricket of 158 meters against south Africa. He has a record of scoring a hat trick in a match of Pakhtoons and Maratha Arabians. In the T20 career, he was a baller who conceded most runs.

On 23 March 2010, The Pride of performance awarded by Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan. Eight years later, Mamnoon Hussain, President of Pakistan awarded him Sitara-I-Imtiaz.

Net Worth & Salary of Shahid Aridi in 2024

As of April 2024, Shahid Aridi’s net worth is a total of around $35 million, marking him as one of the wealthiest cricketers in Pakistan. He is associated with many brands Pepsi, Head and Shoulder’s, etc., which contribute significantly towards his income. Forbes has listed him in the table of most charitable cricketers with his foundation.

Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi is a family man with five daughters and a wife. After delivery of his fifth daughter he tweeted recommending names for her newly born child, the cricketer was through generous. He is extremely passionate about cars and bikes. He has a collection of Porsche Panamera, Harley Davidson V rod bike, and many more. Shahid Afridi has immense love for cricket fans of India. He enjoyed the love he has got from the people of India and told that Indian players get a lot of love from Pakistan also.