The exciting 19-year-old seamer from Pakistan joins as overseas player for next summer's T20 competition

Hampshire Cricket are delighted to announce the signing of Shaheen Afridi for next year’s Vitality Blast competition.

The exciting Pakistan seamer will join the squad as overseas player and is expected to be available for the duration of the competition.

Afridi has become a crucial part of Pakistan’s seam attack across all formats in the last 18 months with the 19-year-old making 34 international appearances in that time, including as part of Pakistan’s ICC Cricket World Cup squad this summer.

An imposing and accurate left-arm paceman, Afridi burst onto the international scene in April 2018 when he was rewarded for an excellent domestic Pakistan Super League campaign with a T20I call-up for the national side’s series against the West Indies. Further international honours quickly followed with the 19-year-old also making his Test and ODI debuts last year.

Standing 6ft 6in tall, Afridi claimed the best figures for Pakistan in a World Cup with 6-35 at Lord’s in July – those figures also proved to be the best of the tournament as he finished with 16 scalps at an average of 14.63 in the tournament.

His impressive international exploits in white-ball cricket have translated to 54 wickets at an average of just 21.02 in 29 limited-overs matches overall.