Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi celebrates a wicket throughout the Asia Cup 2025’s Tremendous Fours match in opposition to Sri Lanka at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, on September 23, 2025. — ACC
Left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi moved previous Shadab Khan on Tuesday to assert second spot amongst Pakistan’s main T20I wicket-takers.
Shaheen achieved the milestone throughout Pakistan’s essential ACC Males’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 Tremendous Fours match in opposition to defending champions Sri Lanka, underway on the Zayed Cricket Stadium, by dismissing top-order batter Pathum Nissanka.
The left-arm pacer had 111 wickets in 89 matches heading into the continuing fixture and took simply two deliveries to attract stage with Shadab as he received in-form Kusal Mendis caught at brief mid-wicket.
He struck once more in his subsequent over, getting Nissanka caught behind to clinch second place on the record of most wickets for Pakistan in T20Is, led by fellow pacer Haris Rauf with 128 scalps in 92 innings.
Most wickets for Pakistan in Males’s T20IsHaris Rauf – 130 wickets in 90 inningsShaheen Shah Afridi – 113 wickets in 90 innings*Shadab Khan – 112 wickets in 104 inningsShahid Afridi – 97 wickets in 96 inningsSaeed Ajmal – 85 wickets in 60 innings
Previous to his twin strike in opposition to Sri Lanka, Shaheen had an underwhelming Asia Cup 2025 with the ball, as he may take three wickets in 4 matches.
Quite the opposite, the 25-year-old made useful contributions with the bat within the ongoing continental event, mustering 64 runs in three innings at an impressive strike fee of 206.45.
In the meantime, when this story was filed, Sri Lanka had been comfortably positioned at 53/3 by the tip of the batting powerplay with captain Charith Asalanka and Kamindu Mendis, unbeaten on 17 and 10, respectively.
