ISLAMABAD: Former national team captain  Shahid Afridi's father Sahabzada Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi passed away on Wednesday after a prolonged illness.

Earlier, Afridi had returned home from England where he was representing Hampshire county because of his father's critical health condition.

The funeral prayers of the deceased will be offered after 'Asr' prayers, and he will be buried in Scot Colony graveyard in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Afridi's brother Mushtaq said.