Former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi praised young pace sensation Shaheen Afridi for listening to his advice and bowling back-of-the-length deliveries against South Africa and succeeding in picking early wickets of Quinton de Kock and Rilee Rossouw.
Pakistan handed South Africa a definitive 33-run defeat via the DLS method in Sydney on November 3 and kept their hopes of semi-final qualification alive. They have one more match in hand against Bangladesh on Sunday.
On Samaa TV, the host asked Shahid Afridi about the advice he had given to Shaheen. Advice that Shahid Afridi had said on air as well four days back. On October 27th, Shahid talked about Shaheen’s lengths.
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“The body has to be warm, and ready, and he has to bowl really pacy if he wants to bowl full. It's cold there, you have to warm up before and come. But if it’s not swinging, Shaheen should drag back the length. The batsmen are now ready for his really full balls. If you are not getting swung with that length, drag back the length a bit. That’s my advice to him. He should change the batsmen’s mind and start from a good length,” Afridi had said then.
Now after the game against South Africa, when the Samaa TV host said that Shaheen is listening to your advice, a smiling Shahid Afridi said. “Shaheen Afridi listens to me. He is a good kid! Achha bachcha hai! I never used to listen (to advise when I was young).”
“I was traveling [during South Africa game] and my internet wasn’t stable. I called home and asked them to send a video of the first over. And when I saw that Shaheen was hitting the good lengths rather than too full, I was happy.” Afridi added.
Notably, Shaheen Afridi is engaged to Shahid Afridi’s daughter.
(Samaa TV/Indian Express inputs)
