KARACHI: Pakistan's star off-spinner Shaheen Afridi is expecting his first child with wife Ansha Afridi.
“Shaheen may miss Bangladesh's Test matches due to childbirth. We can give her [some] “He'll have to rest if he wants to stay with his wife until then,” said the national team's red-ball coach, Jason Gillispie.
The couple Bride The marriage was held in February 2023 at the Zakaria Mosque in Karachi. However, their wedding and valima were held later, in September last year.
The wedding ceremony was held on September 19 at a local hotel in Karachi and was attended by several current and former cricketers including Babar Azam, and former cricketers like Misbah-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwer, Sohail Khan and Tanveer Ahmed among others.
Meanwhile he Valima It was held in Islamabad on September 21.
The pacer's expected unavailability for the national team comes when the Green Shirts are set to take on Bangladesh in a two-match Test series in August.
Shaheen has recently been in the spotlight following revelations that he misbehaved with coaches and management staff.
Sources say the pacer had had discussions with batting coach Mohammad Yousuf during Pakistan's tour of England, just ahead of the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Prior to that, the star player had also come into the limelight due to the national team captaincy saga where he was replaced by Babar as the white-ball captain in March.
He then turned down the vice-captaincy position offered to him by the Pakistan Cricket Board for the recently concluded T20 World Cup.
