Rahul said India would have liked to face Afridi in the Asia Cup 2022.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) recently shared a video on its social media handles, where a number of Indian cricketers, including Yuzvendra Chahal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, and KL Rahul, interacted with the Pakistani pacer Shaheen Afridi in Dubai.
Notably, Afridi is not part of the Pakistan squad for the Asia Cup 2022, having been ruled out of the tournament due to a knee injury, but joined his team in Dubai and is working on his fitness.
Well, during the training sessions, players of the India and Pakistan teams have been seen interacting with each other, and ahead of the big Asia Cup 2022 clash on August 28, Indian batter Rahul opened up about his conversation with Afridi.
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KL Rahul said in a press conference: “As players, we have always battled injuries. For 2-3 months, I myself have been in the academy (NCA). It is a very frustrating time as a player the pain you go through, the frustration of missing games. Even he would have wanted to play this India-Pakistan game. You share a little bit of concern and experience. There was nothing more to it.”
Praising Afridi, he said: “Our mindset was that we play a quality bowler. I’ve seen how Shaheen Shah Afridi has performed in the last two years. He is a world-class bowler, he is a quality bowler.”
Rahul signed off by saying, “The left-arm seamers right now in world cricket are the most dangerous and they are causing problems for batters. If he would have played, it would have been a good experience for us. Unfortunately, he is injured.”
(Hindustan Times inputs)