Shaheen Shah Afridi to join Notts for T20 Blast
Nottinghamshire have marked Pakistan quick bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi for their 2023 Imperativeness Impact crusade. Afridi will join Colin Munro as one of the club's two T20 abroad players.
Last season, Nottinghamshire passed up capability for the knockout phases of the Impact interestingly beginning around 2015, and lead trainer, Peter Moores, hailed Afridi as a "film industry player" who could assist with reviving the club, T20 champions in 2017 and 2020.
"In Shaheen, we have an elite player - which is truly energizing - and a player with a place of distinction with the ball, which is essential when we are hoping to enlist," Moores said.
"We are working from areas of strength for a, with a great deal of exceptionally gifted fellows hungry to play T20, and Shaheen adds star quality and an alternate point to that gathering. He has shown off his abilities on large stages; he is furiously enthusiastic in the manner in which he plays his cricket, and he'll be tremendously captivating for everybody to look thus.
"We need to quickly return from last year's mission, and this marking empowers the club; he has effects in defining moments, and is a film industry player. Close by Munro, who is one of the top run-scorers throughout the entire existence of the configuration, we have two extremely special gifts, both of whom will assume a major part for us as we hope to bring back flatware."
Afridi, 22, as of late captained Lahore Qalandars to the second of consecutive PSL titles. He has had past spells in province cricket with Middlesex and Hampshire, and was marked last week by Welsh Fire to show up in the Hundred.
"Notts play a forceful brand of cricket, which suits me well," Afridi said. "They've had extraordinary outcome lately and any semblance of Alex Hales, Colin Munro and Joe Clarke are players I have looked facing as of late and been dazzled by.
"The objective is clearly to impact games to make the group as effective as could really be expected. Having played at Trent Scaffold, I realize it is a quick scoring ground and as need might arise to get your line and lengths right, yet you likewise get the prizes when that's what you do.
"It's certainly an intriguing move for me, and one I'm anticipating."