Cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar and Shoaib Akhtar have been in the news for the past few days for their social media words on the chances of India-Pakistan bilateral series.
Recently, former Pakistani pacer Akhtar had floated an idea on his YouTube channel for a series of three matches between India-Pakistan to raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic in both the countries.
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The former speedster suggested an ODI series at a neutral venue to raise funds for COVID-19 relief which had received a lot of polarized views from cricketers from both countries India and Pakistan.
On the suggestion, former India captain Gavaskar had given a cheeky response, saying the chances of snowfall in Lahore are way more than having a bilateral series between the two arch-rivals.
Gavaskar had said, “There are more chances of snowfall in Lahore than bilateral series between India and Pakistan. Both teams will keep on meeting in World Cups and ICC tournaments, but a series between them seems unlikely right now.”
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Meanwhile, Akhtar had also come up with a hilarious response to Gavaskar’s response: “Well Sunny Bhai, we did have snowfall in Lahore last year ???? So nothing is impossible.”
Well, the banter continued between the two, as Gavaskar hailed Akhtar’s superb comeback about his “snowfall in Lahore” comment, saying the Pakistani’s reply to his comment shows that the latter is someone with a good sense of humor.
Gavaskar wrote in his column Straight Drive in the daily Mid-Day, “Requests keep coming in to join with them (former cricketers) to relive the old times and talk about how time is spent in the current self-containment situation. It’s not easy which ones to accept and which to reject.”
The Indian legend signed off by saying, “I enjoyed the one I did with Ramiz Raja as we get along very well but what I enjoyed, even more, was Shoiab Akhtar’s superb comeback about my snowfall in Lahore comment. A fast bowler with a sense of humor. Wow, love that!”
(With Mid-Day Inputs)
