Fakhar Zaman’s Return to the National Team: Shahid Afridi’s Story

Former Pakistani team captain Shahid Afridi has acknowledged that he was instrumental in Fakhar Zaman’s reinstatement to the national team.

Afridi told the media that there were initial worries about the left-handed batter’s performance and fitness, which led to his original exclusion from the list of 22 candidates.

Zaman, however, passed the fitness test Afridi gave him after taking over as the interim Chief Selector and was found to be healthy and prepared for the national squad.

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The opening of a five-match ODI series included a magnificent century from Fakhar, who struck 117 runs off just 114 balls, including 13 boundaries and a maximum.

In fifty-over cricket, the talented batsman has amassed 2,902 runs at an average of 46.80 and a strike rate of 92.89, with nine hundreds and fifteen half-centuries.