Shahid Afridi holds the record for most sixes in an ODI career ( 293 of 296 matches as of 329 Matches Till November 2011 ).

The editorial staff, which is predominantly from the Afridi tribe, has been supportive of the Jirga system of government, referring to it as " one of the most time-honoured institutions in the tribal world ".

All of the Afridi clans have their own areas in the Tirah, and most of them extend down into the Khyber Pass over which they have always exercised the right of toll.

In which several of the most important Afridi gun factories are located.

Afridi, however, took four wickets for six Runs — including two no-balls and a wide — and was undoubtedly Man of the Match.

After India and Pakistan's independence from Britain, certain Pashtun tribes such as Mehsud and Afridi from mountainous region of North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) of Pakistan, at the instigation of Pakistan and with its collusion, entered the Kashmir valley to capture it.

Pakistani investigators said in a July 2012 report that Dr. Shakil Afridi met 25 times with " foreign secret agents, received instructions and provided sensitive information to them.

" According to Pakistani reports, Dr. Shakil Afridi told investigators that the charity Save the Children helped facilitate his meeting with U. S. intelligence agents although the charity denies the charge.

In June 2004 Afridi signed with English county side Kent to play for them in three Twenty20 matches and one Totesport League match.

In April Afridi struck what at the time was the equal second-fastest century in ODIs ; he reached 100 off 45 deliveries against India, sharing the record with West Indian Brian Lara.

Afridi was more consistent with his batting and bowling throughout 2005, starting with the tours of India and West Indies and through to the England tour.

On 12 April 2006, Afridi announced a temporary retirement from Test cricket so that he could concentrate on ODIs, with a particular focus on the 2007 World Cup, and to spend more time with his family.

Afridi had played ten Tests since being recalled to the side in January 2005, averaging 47. 44 with the bat including four centuries.

In the 2007 World Twenty20, he performed poorly with the bat but brilliantly with the ball, earning the Man of the Series award, though he failed to take a wicket in the final and was out for a golden duck. But in the next ICC Twenty20 World Cup, held in 2009 Afridi performed brilliantly in the series scoring 50 runs in the semi-final and 54 in the final and leading his team to victory.

Afridi with his team mates during the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 | 2009 World Twenty20 in June 2009

Shortly after Pakistan won the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 the captain Younis Khan announced his retirement from Twenty20 cricket the Pakistan Cricket Board ( PCB ) subsequently announced that Shahid Afridi had taken over as captain in T20Is ; the appointment was initially for one match, with a decision on the permanent replacement to be made later.

In March 2010 the board announced that Shahid Afridi had been appointed ODI captain in place of the sacked Mohammad Yousuf he led Pakistan in the 2010 Asia Cup and during his first three matches as ODI captain he scored two centuries against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh he finished as the tournaments highest runscorer with 384 runs from 3 matches.

Majeed also confirmed that he approached Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Younis Khan and Saeed Ajmal but all off them refused to be affiliated with him of his fixing menace.

In October, Afridi stated in an interview with Express News that the squad had been selected without his consultation ; the PCB gave him an official warning for the interview.

After beating the West Indies in the quarter-final, with Afridi taking four wickets, Pakistan were knocked out of the semi-finals in a 29-run defeat to India.

Afridi was the tournament's joint-leading wicket-taker with 21 wickets, level with India's Zaheer Khan, even though Afridi had played one match less than him.

The coach, Waqar Younis, fell out with Afridi and in his report on the tour criticised Afridi, saying " as a captain he is very immature, has poor discipline, lacks a gameplan and is unwilling to listen to others ' opinions or advice ".

After the series, on 19 May the PCB replaced Afridi as ODI captain with Misbah-ul-Haq for the two-match ODI series against Ireland later that month.

* Sunbeam Maori V12,, 14. 7 litres, developed from Afridi

A 46-ball century from Afridi and big partnerships with Salman Butt and Shoaib Malik built the foundation for a massive target of 366 for 7.

He played only one match in this competition, opening the batting against Pakistan but scoring just 7 before being run out by Shahid Afridi.

Realizing the need for heavier gun armament, the British built the Tribal class of 1936 ( sometimes called " Afridi " after one of two lead ships ).

In five first-class matches he scored 295 runs at an average of 42. 14, including a highest score of 164, and took 11 wickets at an average of 46. 45 ; Afridi also played 11 one day matches for the club, scoring 481 runs at an average of 40. 08 and taking 18 wickets at 24. 04.

Success in the one day arena has been more elusive, Pakistan usually opting to play the two spinning all-rounders Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik or Saeed Ajmal instead.

Thus, the Afridi tribe may be one of the infamous Karlani tribes, who had a formidable reputation as warriors.

* During a one day international between Australia and Pakistan in January 2010, Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi was captured by television cameras making two solid biting motions into the ball.

The President's XI was then undone by the spin of Afridi and Malik, Wilden Cornwall the only one who offered some resistance with 46.

" The bill also would have limited aid to Pakistan until the release of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA trace Osama bin Laden and is currently imprisoned by the Pakastani government.

While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by Sher Ali Afridi, an Afridi Pathan convict who used a knife.

The officials have identified Michael McGrath, an Australian who was Save the Children country director in Pakistan in 2009 as the person who recruited Dr. Shakil Afridi.

Afridi was charged on 8 February 2007 of bringing the game into disrepute after he was seen on camera thrusting his bat at a spectator who swore at him on his way up the steps after being dismissed.

According a representative of Afridi, he had voiced his concerns about Mazhar Majeed – who had approached Pakistan's players – in June.

Marks then travelled to the Far East to set up cannabis deals with Salim Malik, an Afridi hashish exporter who he had met through Durrani ( Durrani had since suffered a fatal heart attack ), and Phil Sparrowhawk, an exporter from Bangkok ; they would smuggle their product over to Ernie Combs in America.

The chief manufacturers were the Adam Khel Afridi, who lived around the Khyber Pass.

Ultimately charges were only upheld against four men, Munawwar Mohsin who had been directly responsible for printing the letter in the paper, news editor Aftab Ahmad and Computers Chief Wajeehul Hassan, and General Editor Mahmood Shah Afridi.

The World Twenty20 was followed with the 2010 Asia Cup in which Pakistan lost to Sri Lanka by a narrow-margin as Pakistan's top order collapsed and it was Shahid Afridi who scored 109 to nearly guide Pakistan to victory.

* Sher Ali Afridi, a former policeman from Peshawar who assassinated Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of British India, in 1872.

Hussain was a descendant of Hussain Khan, an Afridi who migrated from Kohat to Kaimganj in 1715.

The match referree later imposed the maximum two-match penalty on Afridi who pleaded guilty to a charge of ball tampering.

The Afridi tribe had for sixteen years received a subsidy from the government of British India for the safeguarding of the Khyber Pass, in addition to which the government had maintained for this purpose a local regiment entirely composed of Afridis, who were stationed in the pass.