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Shahid Afridi

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Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: شاہد افریدی‎, Pashto: شاهد افریدی; born 1 March 1977) is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. An all-rounder, Afridi was a right-handed leg spinner and a right-handed batsman.Afridi made his ODI debut in 1996 against Kenya. In his second ODI match against Sri Lanka, he played his first international innings and broke the record for fastest century in ODI cricket (doing so in 37 deliveries). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shahid Afridi has received more than 6,531,648 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Shahid Afridi is the 36th most popular cricketer (down from 24th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 151st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Cricketer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shahid Afridis by language

Over the past year Shahid Afridi has had the most page views in the with 1,044,493 views, followed by Hindi (14,925), and Bengali (11,835). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (86.30%), Dutch (29.47%), and Belarusian (25.09%)

Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Shahid Afridi ranks 36 out of 136. Before him are Chris Gayle, C. B. K. Beachcroft, Diana Edulji, Yuvraj Singh, Allan Border, and Richie Benaud. After him are Bill Brown, Sanath Jayasuriya, Mohammed Shami, Phillip Hughes, Shakib Al Hasan, and Tony Greig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Shahid Afridi ranks 831. Before him are Jesper Nøddesbo, Sergey Ryzhikov, Toni Trucks, Stathis Tavlaridis, Jean-Marc Gaillard, and Milovan Mirošević. After him are Damir Burić, Corey Carrier, Mike Miller, Joachim Standfest, Peter Løvenkrands, and Denise Karbon.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Shahid Afridi ranks 175 out of 217. Before him are Kamila Shamsie (1973), Prithipal Singh (1932), Mukhtar Mai (1972), Chris Anderson (1957), Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (1978), and Iman Vellani (2002). After him are Ajmal Kasab (1987), Mohsin Hamid (1971), Jahangir Khan (1963), Maryam Nawaz (1973), Fazlullah (1974), and Inzamam-ul-Haq (1970).

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Among CRICKETERS In Pakistan

Among cricketers born in Pakistan, Shahid Afridi ranks 2. Before him are Wasim Akram (1966). After him are Inzamam-ul-Haq (1970), Shoaib Akhtar (1975), Babar Azam (1994), Waqar Younis (1971), Shoaib Malik (1982), Imran Tahir (1979), Misbah-ul-Haq (1974), Younis Khan (1975), Mohammad Amir (1992), and Mohammad Hafeez (1980).

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