Teenage Pacer Shaheen Afridi Set for Test Baptism

High school Pacer Shaheen Afridi Set for Test Absolution 

Pace sensation Shaheen Afridi is good to go to top his brilliant ascent with a Test make a big appearance for Pakistan in the third match against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi beginning on Monday. 

Shoulder damage to medium pacer Mohammad Abbas in the second Test in Dubai has cleared path for Shaheen to positively influence the last demonstration of a holding arrangement which remains at 1-1. 

The 18-year-old left-arm brisk positively influenced September a year ago, guaranteeing eight wickets for only 39 keeps running in a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy diversion, the best figures by a Pakistan bowler on five star make a big appearance. 

The cricket world paid heed to the 1.98 meter tall bowler who could hit the 90 miles for each hour check with the ball. Inside 15 months he is now being contrasted with Australian pace lead Mitchell Starc and amazing Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram. 

His ascent to the Pakistan group started at home in Landi Kotal, a town in the Khyber Region, near the fringe with Afghanistan, where his senior sibling Riaz who played one Test for Pakistan in 200, gave him his first knocking down some pins exercises. 

Since his amazing top of the line make a big appearance, Shaheen has kept on drawing in consideration, completing with 12 wickets at the ICC Under-19 World Glass in New Zealand this year and afterward snatching a five-wicket pull in a Pakistan Super Alliance coordinate. 

Shaheen graduated to Pakistan hues in the home Twenty20 Worldwide arrangement against the West Non mainstream players in Spring, however genuine achievement came against New Zealand in a month ago's one-day arrangement in which he asserted consecutive four-wicket pulls and completed as man-of-the-arrangement. 

Much the same as Wasim Akram, Shaheen has likewise played only three five star coordinates before his first Test. 

"Test cricket is a definitive so coordinating the incomparable Wasim's accomplishment will propel me a great deal and simply as I do in constrained over matches, I will endeavor to take wickets for my group to win the arrangement," said Shaheen. 

After his initial frame a month ago Pakistan's determination board of trustees, headed by Inzamam-ul-Haq, named Shaheen in the Test squad for the New Zealand arrangement with a view to creating him as opposed to playing him. 

Be that as it may, Shaheen squeezed his cases further when he took seven wickets - five of them clean knocked down some pins - in Pakistan A's prevail upon Britain Lions in their four-day coordinate in Abu Dhabi a month ago. 

"Our knocking down some pins mentor Azhar Mahmood, mentor Mickey Arthur and others have helped me a great deal and have buckled down on me so I am prepared to convey my best.