Posted by Only four days after returning to Test cricket, Pakistan captain, Shahid Afridi, has again announced his retirement with the typically odd yet straightforward statement:
“My temperament is not good enough for Test cricket and we need a proper batsman or a proper bowler.”
Only yesterday we were remarking how Test cricket shows Shahid Afridi at his best; at his most Afridi-ish. You don’t want to see Shahid Afridi batting in a Twenty20 match or in the powerplay overs of a one-day match, you want to see him when he has to bat out time on the final day of a Test match on a wearing pitch.
That’s when Shahid Afridi’s exceptional. That’s when he stands out.
Go tell him, your majesty.
And please please please publish a verbatim trascript of the meeting.
Not sure our Urdu’s up to it.
Is it the typical Pakistani announcement where he will be playing the very first test they play after his “retirement”
I could translate, but it still would make no sense at all…
Afridi is unbelievable – he is fourth and most mad of Pakistan’s four captains of the apocalypse – although England, of course once went through four captains in one series in 1988!
Shahid Afridi & the four captains of the apocalypse http://bit.ly/8Y87Ku