Shaheen Shah Afridi has been Pakistan’s fast bowling spearhead for the pastfew years. Shaheen has been in terrific bowling form recently and was oneof the stars of Pakistan’s 2-0 Test series win over South Africa. Shaheenhas been playing a lot of cricket recently and has been putting in the hardwork for the national team.
There have been calls by the cricketing fraternity on Shaheen’s workloadmanagement, and the national team bowling coach, Waqar Younis, also talkedabout how the management is monitoring the excessive workload on his youngshoulders.——————————
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Lahore Qalandars’ captain, Sohail Akhtar, also recently talked about howShaheen’s workload will be managed throughout the sixth edition of PSL, andhe assured that Lahore would take every precaution to keep him fit andhealthy.
To say that Shaheen has been overworked would be an understatement. Shaheenhas bowled the most overs by any bowler at the age of 20. He has bowled atotal of 750 overs in international cricket. The second on the list isSouth African bowler Kagiso Rabada, and he only bowled 344 overs at thesame age. Shaheen has bowled more than double the number of overs than thenext most overworked bowler.*Most number of overs at the age of 20 (debut after 2010)**Bowler* *Overs*Shaheen Afridi 750Kagiso Rabada 344Alzarri Joseph 298Lahiru Kumara 294Shafiul Islam 251Naseem Shah 224Keemo Paul 190Luke Jongwe 165Sam Curran 150Mustafizur Rahman 149——————————
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Ever since the resumption of cricket activities after a long break due tothe COVID-19 pandemic, Shaheen has bowled the most number of overs ininternational cricket. Shaheen has bowled 284.1 overs in internationalcricket since July 2020. That is 30 overs more than the English spinner,Dom Bess. The next most overworked fast bowler during the duration isEngland’s James Anderson, who has bowled 219.5 overs.
*Most number of overs after COVID-19 break**Bowler* *Overs*Shaheen Afridi 284.1Dom Bess 255.2Ravichandran Ashwin 248.4Yasir Shah 231.4Jack Leach 220.5James Anderson 219.5Pat Cummins 216.1Josh Hazelwood 211.4Shannon Gabriel 210.1Jofra Archer 207.5
