Shaheen Shah Afridi notches three-wicket haul to announce himself in County Cricket for Middlesex

Afridi finished with decent figures of 13.1-4-35-3 and helped Middlesex bowl Glamorgan out for 122 in 41.1 overs.

Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi made a thunderous start to the County Championship sojourn with Middlesex after he picked up a three-wicket haul against Glamorgan at the Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

After Toby Ronald-Jones got rid of opening batter Andrew Salter, Afridi spewed venom at the opposition batters. To start with, the left-arm pacer rattled Marnus Labuschagne’s woodwork. Afridi bowled one outside the off stump and Labuschagne tried to leave the ball. But the batter only saw his stumps go for a walk, after which Afridi and his Middlesex teammates erupted in jubilation.

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In the very next ball, Afridi dismissed Sam Northeast, who bagged a golden duck. Afridi churned out a full-pitched delivery and Northeast made a tentative poke at the delivery. But the batter found an outside edge and Robbie White took a sharp catch at second slip. The 22-year-old Afridi, in the meantime, found himself on the verge of a hat-trick.

Afridi almost accomplished the milestone after he appealed loudly for a caught behind down the leg side. Kiran Karlson tried to glide the ball through fine leg, but couldn’t make a proper connection. Thereafter, the on-field umpire turned Afridi’s appeal down and the bowler was denied a hat-trick.