Irfan Pathan was one of the sanest India cricketers on the field. But he also has incidents involving in sledging with the opponents. One of the famous ones is against Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara. 

Pathan revealed the ugly conversation with Sangakkara on a show after announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket on Sunday.

Irfan recalled the Test match against Sri Lanka in 2005 at Feroz Shah Kotla (Now Arun Jaitley Stadium), when he was sent to open the innings after Virender Sehwag had suffered an injury.

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The all-rounder has batting ability and he had scored 93 runs as India defeated Sri Lanka by 188 runs in the match. While he walked out to bat, wicket-keeper Sangakkara said something to him, in reply, Pathan commented on his wife.

"I remember one of the stories with (Kumar) Sangakkara. We were playing in Delhi. I scored about 93 in the 2nd innings when (Virender) Sehwag got injured. I was sent up the order. At that time, Sangakkara knew the match was going away from them. (Muttiah) Muralitharan was bowling really well. He was just trying to tell me something very nasty. He said something personal, I said something personal to him. I said something about his wife, he said something about my father and my mother. At that time, we were not happy with each other," Pathan said on Star Sports.

But later, they became friends after playing for the same IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab. The two behaved like matures and ended the dispute right there.

"After some time, we were playing in the same team for Kings XI Punjab. I remember, for a month, as soon as his wife used to come on the right, I used to go left. One day, Sangakkara came and said... 'you remember this guy, he is the guy who said something about you'. I said sorry. And then Sangakkara explained, I said something first and then only he said something about you. It ended that way. There is no hard feeling and then we became friends," Pathan revealed.