Shahid Afridi, one of the biggest match-winners for Pakistan is celebrating his birthday today and fans from all around the world have flooded social media with their amazing birthday wishes. However, amidst all the heartfelt birthday wishes for the cricketer, a debate on his age has once again started on social media.
Well, Shahid Afridi has been a controversial figure – on and off the field. His age has always been a controversial topic of discussion. As the cricketer is celebrating his birthday today, he took to his social media to announce that he turned 44 today, however, his autobiography states that he would by 46. On the other hand, the PCB and other websites claim that he is only 41-year-old.
Yes, you read that right. Shahid Afridi wrote:
“Thank you very much for all the lovely birthday wishes – 44 today! My family and my fans are my biggest assets. Really enjoying my stint with Multan and hope to produce match winning performances for all MS fans.”
Here, check out the tweet:
Thank you very much for all the lovely birthday wishes – 44 today! My family and my fans are my biggest assets. Really enjoying my stint with Multan and hope to produce match winning performances for all MS fans.
— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) February 28, 2021
The tweet soon went viral and was flooded with reactions from Twitterati, who started trolling the former Pakistani cricketer left, right, and center for his tweet. There were many who came up with hilarious jokes and memes on the same.
Among many a popular Twitter user named Mohandas Menon, who is a cricket/sports statistician according to his Twitter bio, also took to his Twitter and took a dig at Shahid Afridi. He wrote:
“We can now officially change Shahid Afridi’s DOB to 1 Mar 1977 from 1 Mar 1980. This means Afghanistan’s Usman Ghani (17y-242d) is now the youngest to score an ODI 100 (in July 2014). Afridi in Oct 1996 was 19y-217d (& not 16y-217d) when he made the famous 37-ball 100 at Nairobi.”
Here, check out the Tweet:
We can now officially change Shahid Afridi’s DOB to 1 Mar 1977 from 1 Mar 1980.
This means Afghanistan’s Usman Ghani (17y-242d) is now the youngest to score an ODI 100 (in July 2014).
Afridi in Oct 1996 was 19y-217d (& not 16y-217d) when he made the famous 37-ball 100 at Nairobi.— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) March 1, 2021
Here, check out how Twitterati are trolling Afridi:
And he was called from an Under-19 Caribbean tour to play this tournament in Nairobi in 1996!
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) March 1, 2021
Is it 1975 or 1977? Confusion again.. pic.twitter.com/JJdEndRqQS
— Krishna Chaitanya (@Kris7na) March 1, 2021
Are you satisfied that his tweeting of his age is sufficient verification?
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) March 1, 2021
Made a fool of ppl since 1996. ?
— Indrajit.Ghose (@IndrajitGhose6) March 1, 2021
He himself claimed in his book he was 1975 born, so actually was 21 on his debut
So he has 3 different birth years ?
pic.twitter.com/MNsjRXsdEc
— Vidhu Pal (@vidhu_pal) March 1, 2021
but his autobiography has him mention his year of birth as 1975 ?
He’s a myth ? pic.twitter.com/TFkwyZ4C7B
— Jitendra Soni (@jdsoni7) March 1, 2021
Afridi made me confused as well pic.twitter.com/LSlKRUHFQ8
— Syed Muhammad Ali (@SmAli92) March 1, 2021
How can they play around with DOB? And what is PCB doing? This shows there is so dirt and cheat from domestic level in pcb.
— Bhautik Mehta (@bhautik_pm) March 1, 2021
What’s more confusion from these
1. #GST
2. #DRS in Cricket ?
3. #ShahidAfridi date of birth #AfridiBirthDate pic.twitter.com/WB3N7py9Rg— Sahitya S. Shikrenayak (@sahityashikre) March 1, 2021
Officially? Google is still showing 1980???? Ajeeb Fraud hai ye banda….
— NewOpportunities (@topesandeep) March 1, 2021
In his autobiography, he states that he was born in the year 1975. He was not 19 but 21 when he made his debut
— Anmol Gupta (@us3d19) March 1, 2021
