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Afridi returns home leaving county cricket halfway

KARACHI: Allrounder Shahid Afridi has returned home on Tuesday leaving English county cricket half-way to take care of his ailing father. Afridi has appealed to the nation for praying for his father’s health recovery. Shahid Afridi was representing Hampshire in the English County cricket championship being played in England but just after receiving the news of his father’ illness he rushed back to Pakistan. Sahibzada Fazlur Rehman, father of Shahid Afridi, has been ill for a long period and he was admitted on previous day to a local hospital of Karachi where he has been kept in intensive care unit (ICU). While talking with Geo News, Afridi has appealed to the nation for praying for his father.