One of the worst kept secrets in the history of modern cricket has to be the real age of the former Pakistan cricket team captain, Shahid Afridi.

The man, who is considered to be 44 years old right now, based on various public records, has finally revealed in his autobiography titled 'Game Changer', that at the time of registering his name for an Under-14 cricket tournament during his childhood, he had no idea how old he was and filled in whatever age the people around him told him to. That age got recorded into the Pakistan Cricket Board's files and went on to become Afridi's official birth year.

Amused by the fact that Shahid Afridi has revealed the worst kept secret in international cricket. But I have always believed that unless you are playing an U19 World Cup, your age doesn't matter.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) May 3, 2019

The record for the fastest hundred in the ODI format of the game was under the name of Afridi who, while batting in international cricket for the very first time hit a ton in just 37 balls, which is 11 fewer than the previous record set by Sri Lanka's Jayasuriya against Pakistan in Singapore six months earlier.

At the time, it was officially declared that the Afridi was in fact a 16-year-old, which made the record that much more impressive.

Now, the former skipper has come out in the open saying that his actual age at the time was 19 (21 according to the autobiography) and the gravity of that record just crumbles down.

A byproduct of the revelation of the whole facade is that cricket fans have now brought back Afghanistan's extremely talented cricketer, Rashid Khan into the spotlight, trying to figure out his “real age”.

According to his ICC profile, Rashid Khan was born on 20th September 1998, which makes the ICC World Rank 1 (T20I, Bowling), all of 20 years of age right now.

Clearly, after the Shahid Afridi episode, people online are not buying Khan's story: 

Shahid Afridi : I was born in 1975 and not 1980

Cricket fans to Rashid Khan : pic.twitter.com/d1HCXXgAE0

— Bollywood Gandu (@BollywoodGandu) May 3, 2019

Shahid Afridi today, Rashid Khan tomorrow ðð

— ACS ð¹ð¹ð¦ð¬ (@AdamSamuel__) May 3, 2019

Is Shahid Afridi younger than Rashid Khan?

— Keyur (@_bollywoodlover) May 11, 2019

Rashid Khan koi angle se 20 21 ka nhi lagta ...his actual age is above 25 ....just like Afridi..

— Abhishek Pandey (@paandey1993) May 9, 2019

After the successful release of Shahid Afridi's game changer

Rashid Khan has started working on his autobiography as well. The name of the book will be The Age Changer

Will have at least 1 chapter dedicated to Afridi in that too.#GameChanger

— Azlan Mahmood (@azlanmahmood1) May 4, 2019