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July 21, 2010Posted on 07/21/2010 in Pakistan in England
Afridi will be sadly missed in Tests
Andy Bull, writing in his blog The Spin in the Guardian, says Shahid Afridi's daring, swashbuckling approach to the game is what makes him the most enjoyable cricketer to watch.
At the age of 30 Afridi still bats like the 16-year-old who hit the fastest-ever ODI century in his very first international innings. Reckless, irresponsible, idiotic, there is not another player in the game who is as much fun to watch. He is a proper swashbuckler, a cricketer who, as I wrote last year, bowls leg-spin with the cunning of Cardinal Richelieu and bats with the foolhardy panache of all three Musketeers rolled into one.
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