{"id":10146,"date":"2014-06-03T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/06\/03\/budding-cricketer-shahaan-haroon-meets-his-hero-shahid-afridi\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:05:25","slug":"budding-cricketer-shahaan-haroon-meets-his-hero-shahid-afridi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/03\/budding-cricketer-shahaan-haroon-meets-his-hero-shahid-afridi\/","title":{"rendered":"Budding Cricketer Shahaan Haroon Meets His Hero Shahid Afridi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shahaan Haroon \u2013 a budding British born cricketer who is of Pakistani origin met his hero the great Pakistani cricketing legend Shahid Afridi on Friday at the CSN International Conference and Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.<\/div>\n

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Popularly known as \u2018Boom Boom Afridi\u2019, Shahid Afridi also signed a cricket ball for Shahaan Haroon to aid the \u2018Support Thalassemia Children\u2019 campaign with this and one other fundraising event at the Lords Ground in London.<\/div>\n

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Shahaan Haroon, who attended with his father businessman Haroon Hussain, is a pupil at the Victoria School in Burton upon Trent and the grandson of Mohammed Jamil \u2013 President of the Midlands Community Association.<\/div>\n

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34 years old Shahid Afridi \u2013 an all-rounder, but known more for his aggressive batting style between 1996 and 2012 played 27 Tests<\/a>, 350 One Day Internationals<\/a> and 59 Twenty20 Internationals<\/a> (T20Is) for the Pakistani national team<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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He previously held the record for the fastest ODI century in 37 deliveries (now broken by Corey Anderson<\/a> who took one delivery less). \u00a0He also holds the distinction of having hit the most number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket.<\/div>\n

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UNICEF<\/a> and Pakistani authorities have taken Shahid Afridi on board for its anti-polio campaign in the tribal belt of lawless Waziristan region.\u00a0Haroon and Shahaan also met Pakistani cricketers Ahmed Shahzad and Abdul Razzaq.<\/div>\n

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Mohammed Jamil said that it was absolutely a great honour and a pleasure for his grandson and son-in-law to meet one of the greatest cricketers of all time.\u00a0He said that Shahid Afridi is the idol to millions around the world.<\/div>\n

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Afridi Alongside Ahmed Shahzad Made Apperance at UK Fundraiser Shahaan Haroon \u2013 a budding British born cricketer who is of Pakistani origin met his hero the great Pakistani cricketing legend Shahid Afridi on Friday at the CSN International Conference and Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. \u00a0 Popularly known as \u2018Boom Boom Afridi\u2019, Shahid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}