{"id":104883,"date":"2026-10-26T03:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=104883"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:08:41","slug":"shaheen-afridi-becomes-fastest-pakistani-pacer-to-take-150-odi-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/shaheen-afridi-becomes-fastest-pakistani-pacer-to-take-150-odi-wickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen Afridi becomes fastest Pakistani pacer to take 150 ODI wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani pacer achieves feat in his 80th ODI, two matches slower than former spinner Saqlain Mushtaq<br \/>\nLahore<br \/>\nPakistan\u2019s left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi reached a notable landmark in ODI cricket on Sunday during the fourth match of the tri-series against England at Lahore\u2019s Gaddafi Stadium.<br \/>\nBowling first, Shaheen dismissed England opener Tom Banton early in the innings to claim his 150th wicket in the 50-over format. The 26-year-old became the fastest Pakistani pacer and second-fastest Pakistani bowler overall to reach the milestone.<br \/>\nShaheen achieved the feat in his 80th ODI, two matches slower than former Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq, who holds the record for the fastest Pakistani bowler to take 150 wickets in the format, having reached the landmark in 78 matches.<br \/>\nHowever, Shaheen surpassed Pakistan pace greats Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar, both of whom took 91 matches to claim 150 ODI wickets, to become the country\u2019s fastest fast bowler to reach the milestone.<br \/>\nThe achievement further underlines Shaheen\u2019s importance to Pakistan\u2019s bowling attack as he continues to make his mark in international cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani pacer achieves feat in his 80th ODI, two matches slower than former spinner Saqlain Mushtaq Lahore Pakistan\u2019s left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi reached a notable landmark in ODI cricket on Sunday during the fourth match of the tri-series against England at Lahore\u2019s Gaddafi Stadium. Bowling first, Shaheen dismissed England opener Tom Banton early in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104896,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104883\/revisions\/104896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}