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Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi completes 100 wickets in Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi completes 100 wickets in Test cricket

Galle [Sri Lanka]: Shaheen Afridi completed a milestone of taking 100 wickets in Test cricket in the first Test match against Sri Lanka on Sunday.

Shaheen returned to the side with his old wicket-taking abilities intact, giving them a breakthrough early in the innings. Shaheen dismissed Nishan Madhushanka in the 2.2 overs to achieve his 100th wicket in the morning session of the first Test in Galle.

According to ICC, Shaheen Afridi last played a Test match almost a year ago and incidentally, it was at Galle against Sri Lanka. One year later, after multiple injury setbacks, he is back on the same ground against the same opposition and it looks like Afridi still has not missed a beat.

The left-arm quick remained stranded on 99 Test wickets since July last year but it did not take him long to get to the milestone. In fact, in just the second over of his return, Afridi became the 19th bowler from Pakistan to claim 100 wickets in Test cricket.

Afridi was far from firing at full-tilt speeds but troubled the batters with incredible movement in the air and off the pitch.

Sri Lanka opener Nishan Madushka was the victim, who could not deal with the angle and movement Afridi produced. The 23-year-old added two more wickets in his eight-over long opening spell, squaring up Kusal Mendis for his second before removing the solid Dimuth Karunaratne.

At 23 years of age, only two other Pakistan bowlers had achieved the feat of 100 Test wickets – Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. Akram, who is the all-time highest wicket-taker for Pakistan in Test cricket, hailed Afridi after he got to his 100-wicket milestone.

After Afridi’s early inroads, Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva built up an incredible 131-run partnership to lead Sri Lanka’s fightback. The partnership came to an end on the stroke of tea, with Abrar Ahmed getting the scalp of Mathews, who walked back for 64.
This left Sri Lanka’s total at 185/5.

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