Twitter trolls Afridi after Messi announces retirement

Sport360 staff 15:39 27/06/2016
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  • Shahid Afridi: Forever 21

    It’s not easy being Shahid Afridi, especially when one has played the game for 20 years and continues to harbour hopes of playing more.

    The 36-year-old former Pakistan captain has been there and done it in over 500 games for his country but his hunger for more refuses to die down.

    So on a day when Lionel Messi announced his international retirement on the back of a disappointing finish to Argentina’s Copa America campaign, Twitter chose to ask the most pertinent question – When will Shahid Afridi retire? 

    Here’s a compilation of the best tweets that are curious about Shahid Afridi’s impending, and 3,245,676th (NOTE: This is a conservative estimate), international retirement:

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