As brave as a warrior… Afridi is one of the

strongest men I’ve known.

Game Changer is a riveting memoir of Shahid Afridi, one of modern
Wasim Akram cricket’s most controversial and high-achieving practitioners,
who in 1996, as a teenager, hammered the fastest ODI century at
the time. Today, Afridi holds the distinction of having hit the most

Author photograph by Amean J | 18% grey

number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket, scooping the most
wickets in T20s and winning the most player-of-the match awards
in the same format.

In Game Changer, he sets the record straight once and for all. From
When runs are needed,
his humble beginnings in the mountains of Pakistan’s unruly
and big shots required,
and when his bat is north-west to the mean streets of Karachi to the county parks of
responding, Shahid Afridi southern England, Afridi tells his life story just the way he bats –
WAJAHAT S. KHAN produces and corresponds from Pakistan for
can be the most instinctively, candidly and with no holds barred. In a career as
Vice News, The Times and India Today. He has reported from dangerous player
unpredictable as his leg-break googlies and boom-boom power
fifteen countries covering conflict, diplomacy, politics and media Shahid Afridi's competitiveness,
Sachin Tendulkar hitting, Afridi has been many things – the lost kid with the singular
for digital, cable and networks. Before serving as NBC’s last his never-say-die attitude,
his spirit, his energy: all so focus of pulling his parents out of poverty, the desperate captain
bureau chief in Kabul, Khan also launched Pakistan’s first
impressive. A great servant to trying not to snitch on his corrupt teammates, the gallant Pashtun
independent Urdu and English cable networks and produced
cricket and to his country centurion staring down a hostile Indian crowd and the bad boy
the first broadcast series from across the border in India. He
is a 2011 Harvard Shorenstein Fellow, a 2012 Asia Society Young Sir Vivian Richards in the centre of a match-tampering scandal.

Global Leader, and landed Pakistan’s only Emmy-nomination

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for breaking news in 2015, the year he met Shahid Afridi. Khan
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last bowled right-arm fast-medium for the Frere House of his
Karachi Grammar School with an ageing sniper’s accuracy. Poster

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He hates spin, both on and off the field.
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Cover design Saurav Das

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