ISLAMABAD (TNS) Pakistani cricketer Asif Afridi is going through a difficult time as his daughter is undergoing treatment in the hospital. He recently made his Test debut against South Africa and took a brilliant 6 wickets in the first innings but his mind is busy with his daughter’s health.
Asif Afridi shared that his daughter is a “‘special child'” and has been ill for the past two days. He is very worried about her condition, but his wife has encouraged him to focus on the match
The 38-year-old Asif Afridi, who made his debut against South Africa, has made an emotional statement regarding his daughter’s treatment. It should be noted that Asif Afridi attracted everyone’s attention by taking 6 wickets in the first innings of his first Test match, but at the end of the third day’s play, when the left-arm spinner talked to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about his daughter’s illness and her treatment for the past 2 days, the fans became worried. Asif Afridi said that the day he heard about his debut, he could not sleep that night, he was very happy to play the first match, he wanted to bowl well in the debut match like in the domestic one. Regarding his children, he said that he has 4 sons and a daughter, but his daughter is a ‘special child’ and her health has not been good for the past 2 days, due to which she is undergoing treatment in the hospital, he is very worried about his daughter’s illness.
His wife has encouraged him a lot that his daughter is fine, God willing, we will win the match, if that happens, I will play the match in the name of my daughter. Asif Afridi further said that I wanted to have a daughter, but I got a daughter and she is a special child, I love my daughter more than my sons. It should be noted that in the first innings of the Rawalpindi Test, Pakistan scored 333 runs, captain Shan Masood played a brilliant innings of 87 runs, Saud Shakeel scored 66 and Abdullah Shafiq scored 57 runs. Proteas bowler Keshav Maharaj showed excellent bowling for 102 runs, taking 7 players to the pavilion. In response to Pakistan’s first innings, the South African team was bowled out for 404 runs, after 8 players were out for 235 runs when Pakistan was hoping for a good lead. At the same time, Senoran Muthuswamy played an excellent batting innings and played an unbeaten innings of 89 runs, while Kagiso Rabada also contributed greatly by scoring 71 runs to take a 71-run lead against Pakistan. Pakistan’s debutant left-arm spinner Asif Afridi, 38, took six wickets, Noman Ali took two, Sajid Khan and Shaheen Shah Afridi took one wicket each. At the end of the third day’s play in the Rawalpindi Test, Pakistan had scored 94 runs for the loss of four wickets, giving the Green Shirts a slight lead of 23 runs over the Proteas, with top-order batsman Babar Azam scoring 49 runs while Mohammad Rizwan was on the wicket with 16 runs.
