Shahid Afridi is one figure who has divided opinions a lot which his motor mouth and his autobiography “Game changer”. The Pakistani all-rounder has given lots of tidbits to his fans and cricket lovers in the book and also takes a dig at many of his contemporaries.
The rivalry between India and Pakistan is not limited to the field or between the fans, for Afridi, it seems to go beyond everything and he shares a fiery rivalry with Gautam Gambhir despite both being retired from the game for some time now.
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Gautam Gambhir’s nationalist tweets rebuking Pakistan for their military and terrorist actions in Kashmir have not gone down well with Shahid Afridi. Both have been fighting on Twitter for some time now and Afridi believes Gambhir has no personality at all but likes to act tough.
“(Gautam Gambhir) and his attitude problem. He, who has no personality. He, who is barely a character in the great scheme of cricket. He, who has no great records, just a lot of attitude. He, who behaves like he’s a cross between Don Bradman and James Bond,” he writes in his book.
Another player who is not in good books of Shahid Afridi due to his tweets against Pakistan is Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir’s opening partner for India. Sehwag has been called ‘killer of pace attacks’ earlier in the book, but Afridi calls him irresponsible for his tweets.
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“Look at Virender Sehwag. Look at the negative statements he makes on Twitter about Pakistan. Is that responsible behavior? Consider his fans all over the world. Consider his fans here, in Pakistan…We are ambassadors. We can’t be partisan, except on the field. In this new, hyper India, Kohli, Sehwag, and Co. clearly don’t get that,” he says.
He also says the Indian team donning military caps on the cricket field in 2019 ‘was a bit much’, saying cricketers should be ambassadors and not politicians.
(Iindianexpress.com inputs)
