Karachi: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi Wednesday promised to review his one-day future after Pakistan’s series loss to Sri Lanka, saying youngsters needed to be inducted with the 2015 World Cup in mind.
Afridi, 32, managed just 28 runs in four innings and his three wickets were taken at an expensive average of 48.66 as Pakistan slumped to a 3-1 defeat with one match abandoned due to rain in the series, which ended on Monday.
“Our performance was not as such as we were expecting,” Afridi said.
“Now I want to consult my elders and then decide on my one-day future. I will have to sincerely review where I stand as far as my performance is concerned.”
Afridi, who holds the record of smashing the fastest one-day hundred — off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi in 1996 — has not been on the best of form with the bat and has not bowled to the standard he set as a leg-spinner.
“I will make a decision soon but I have yet to decide on retirement. I will continue playing Twenty20 cricket if I leave one-day. I want to leave the stage for youngsters so that Pakistan can have a good team by 2015,” said Afridi, who retired from Test cricket in 2010.