ADELAIDE (Web Desk) – Pakistan cricket team skipper Misbah-ul-Haq and all rounder Shahid Afridi on Friday said good bye to their ODI careers as Australia kicked Pakistan out of the cricket world cup 2015 in Adelaide oval.
Both cricketers had announced their retirements before the mega event started. However Misbah will continue playing test cricket whereas Afridi will carry on with T20 cricket.
Misbah, 40, failed to get a one-day hundred in his entire career of 162 one-day internationals. His final run tally was 5,122 runs — the most runs by any player in one-days without a hundred.
The captain managed 34 in Pakistan’s sub-par total of 213 all out against Australia at the Adelaide Oval.
The co-hosts overhauled the target in 33.5 overs for a comprehensive six-wicket victory, earning a place in next Thursday’s semi-final against defending champions India in Sydney.
Afridi, famous for his 37-ball hundred in only his second one-day international made against Sri Lanka in Nairobi in 1996, fell five wickets short of the 400-mark.
Afridi, 35, who scored 8,064 runs in his 398 one-day internationals, could have been the only all-rounder with over 8,000 one-day runs and 400 wickets.
