In 2006, 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2017 were the retirements, and in 2006, 2011 and 2016 came the comebacks. But behind the metronomic speed of his retirements sat one of the most influential cricketers of the modern era: there was little on the cricket field that Afridi couldn’t do, and a place always seemed open for him.
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