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What is it like inside Shahid Afridi’s head?

Bowled on 31st January, 2010 at 20:08 by King Cricket
Category: Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi 'smelling' the ball

Very few cricketers combine stellar brilliance with all three major types of retardation.

Update: We’ve done some slightly lengthier writing on this subject for The Wisden Cricketer.

We are still a bit mental about slow cookers but think we can get the meat to come out "stickier"

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  1. Reply
    sam   //   January 31st, 2010 at 20:13

    this is an incredible story. what an absolute tool.

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    monster cable   //   January 31st, 2010 at 20:39

    woof woof.

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    King Cricket   //   January 31st, 2010 at 20:51

    The man has zero regard for whether doing something is a good idea or not.

    We love him for that.

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    Ceci   //   January 31st, 2010 at 20:53

    I wonder if anyone is “meh” about him?

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    wolf   //   January 31st, 2010 at 23:37

    His initial response shed a lot of light on the situation:
    “I tried to smell it (the ball). There was something I tried to move.”
    Clearly, like barbie before him he was trying to get a bit of dirt off the seam but it slipped his mind to get the umpire to supervise. Once again it’s part of the ICC’s witchunt against bowlers generally and Afridi specifically.
    To answer your question I’m not entirely sure what goes through his head, other than a burning desire to win. This is something Pakistan has been lacking all summer.
    Under Afridis inspired leadership they pushed Australia to the limit in an ODI for the first time this summer. It’s a great shame he’ll miss the T20’s.

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    Moses   //   February 1st, 2010 at 00:02

    A shame he didn’t do this in Test Cricket, the red ball would have presented him the apple excuse.

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    CM   //   February 1st, 2010 at 00:12

    Edible balls. Lots of them

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    Spider   //   February 1st, 2010 at 05:15

    wow look at him lay into it!!!

    I wonder how it tasted….probably not like chicken

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    Gerontius   //   February 1st, 2010 at 05:55

    Of all the methods of ball tampering, Afridi had to choose BITING?

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    Spider   //   February 1st, 2010 at 07:58

    whats funny is how blatantly he’s doing it XD

    only Afridi could top that pitch dance he did a few years ago…only Afridi :)

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    Ged   //   February 1st, 2010 at 09:06

    I don’t think my mouth opens that wide.

    Could anyone else around here get their choppers around a cricket ball like that?

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    wolf   //   February 1st, 2010 at 10:05

    Ged I’ll be taking a crack at it this weekend, I’ll let you know how I go.

    Anything for a wicket….

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    alex   //   February 1st, 2010 at 10:25

    I think the only way this could have gotten wierder was if the ball had got stuck, as I think it would do for many of us if we’d gotten it in that far. He would at some point have been asked by the umpire where the ball had gone. Unable to speak, he lifts his head which had been hung in shame, and looks at the umpire with sadness and confusion in his eyes, and a cricket ball in his mouth.

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    D Charlton   //   February 1st, 2010 at 11:43

    Great image alex … If only it had happened.

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    Vim   //   February 1st, 2010 at 14:18

    Stuff McKay, that should have been the MOTM performance.

    What a card.

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    Pat   //   February 1st, 2010 at 15:41

    An admirable effort. To sacrifice himself to the media in order to divert attention from the series whitewash and managerial incompetence..

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    vkl   //   February 1st, 2010 at 16:18

    The English still do it better than the Pakistanis

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    Dandy Dan   //   February 1st, 2010 at 16:58

    ‘February 1st, 2010 by Alex Bowden in Pakistan’

    When I first read that I thought “Well he’s brave”.

    Then I worked it out.

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    Nathan   //   February 2nd, 2010 at 00:52

    Mad as a cut snake, is dear Afridi.

    Mad as a cut snake in a salt mine…

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    Ged   //   February 3rd, 2010 at 09:06

    Please do publish the results of your research, Wolf. I am sure I am but one of many around here who can hardly wait to learn how you get on.

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    e normous   //   February 3rd, 2010 at 16:39

    You had Rob Key on a capybara, but I think a better photoshop would be Afridi eating a ball whilst dancing on a pitch.

    And I believe “What is it like inside Shahid Afridi’s head?” is a foolish and dangerous question to ask, because the answer, apart from being unknowable, will also cause your head to collapse on itself.

    A better question is “what’s the difference between “while” and “whilst” and when is a good time to use one of them?”. ?

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    oops   //   February 13th, 2010 at 16:43

    listen you masters of the cheap shot, how many of you have won the world cup almost singlehandedly?

    you’re all nobodys.

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