Watch: Shaheen Shah Afridi cleans up Marnus Labuschagne to bag his first County wicket
Shaheen Afridi: (Image Source: Twitter)
Pakistan speedster, Shaheen Shah Afridi made his County Championship debut on Thursday. Turning up for Middlesex, Shaheen Shah Afridi have made a superb start to his County debut. Interestingly, the Pakistan seamer took his first wicket of Marnus Labuschagne in the County Championship in the match against Glamorgan on Thursday. He got the ball to bounce from short of the length delivery.
Marnus Labuschagne, who was looking to leave the delivery got an edge onto the stumps as he got played on. He got out after scoring 8 runs in 25 balls.
Middlesex Cricket also took to Twitter to upload the video of Shaheen Afridi’s first County Championship wicket.
“SHAHEEN BOWLS MARNUS Take a look at how @iShaheenAfridi removed Marnus Labuschagne Not a bad first @CountyChamp wicket, eh? #OneMiddlesex.” Middlesex Cricket wrote as caption.
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Notably, this isn’t the first time when Shaheen Afridi has accounted for the wicket of Marnus Labuschagne.
In the recent Test series between Australia and Pakistan, Shaheen Afridi got the wicket of Labuschagne at least in one match in every Test of the series.
After getting the wicket of the Australian batter, Shaheen Afridi also got rid of Sam Northeast on the very next ball and almost took a hat-trick. However, Kiran Carlson survived a huge appeal down the leg-side.
Shaheen Afridi picked three wickets, overall, and helped the team bundle out Glamorgan for just 122 runs in the second innings. Toby Roland-Jones also picked two wickets, while the likes of Tom Helm and Martin Andersson claimed two and one wicket respectively.
