LAHORE: Star Cricketer Shahid Khan Afridi announced Tuesday that his autobiography will come out next year with his autobiography, in which he opens up about his “rivalries and alliances”.
Titled s “Shahid Afridi: An Autobiography” is written with journalist Wajahat S Khan.
The book will account Afridi as one of modern-day cricket’s most controversial and high-achieving practitioners, who in 1996, as a 16-year-old, hammered a record-breaking 37-ball century.
Afridi currently holds the distinction of having hit the most number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket as well as the most wickets (97) and man-of-the match awards in T20 Internationals.
Astoundingly, an Indian publication, HarperCollins India has acquired world rights to the autobiography. The publisher has dubbed the book as “big-hitting and no holds barred”.
“In all my years of cricket, I’ve given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I’ve never shared openly. I have a lot to say: about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures,” Afridi said about the book.
“In the book, I’ve opened up about my rivalries and my alliances, particularly those with India, as well as my infatuation with the military and my take on politics. It was a tall order to get myself ready to do this, but I’m proud to join hands with a fine storyteller and journalist like Wajahat bhai. I’m also thankful to my publishers for giving me the space to be myself.”
Khan says about his association with the book, “He may be the most in-your-face cricketer Pakistan – or even South Asia – has ever produced, but Afridi isn’t an open-and-shut case to study. Interviewing and working with one of the greatest – and most complicated – cricketing icons wasn’t just exciting, it was also quite scary.
“Getting inside his head is like bowling to the man. You never know what may happen when you get within range. ‘Shahid Afridi: An Autobiography’ is not just about Afridi and Pakistan cricket, but also about the other Afridis we haven’t heard about: the lost kid with the singular focus of pulling his parents out of poverty, the desperate captain trying not to snitch on his corrupt teammates, the gallant Pashtun centurion staring down a hostile Indian crowd.”
Publisher and chief editor of HarperCollins India Karthika VK says she is delighted to publish the autobiography.
“It will be a great addition to the Harper Sport list and I look forward to working with him and Wajahat to make a memorable book,” she said.
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