Karachi, June 23: Just how do you stop Shahid Afridi? South Africa certainly couldn’t find an answer to that question in Nottingham on Thursday.
Before Afridi decided to launch against the Proteas, smashing them all over Trent Bridge en route to his career best score of 51, his best effort in this format was a mere 39 – against Bangladesh in the last World T20.
Since then, he has been woeful with the bat and hardly looked like the eventual match-winner he proved in the semifinal. But then, this is how Afridi has always played his cricket.
Spin has played a big role in stifling batsmen.Stopping an on-song Afridi is often improbable, if not impossible.
There is one man who, however, seems to do it quite often – Afridi himself.
-Agencies