The banter between Mohammad Hafeez and Michael Vaughan has gotten serious from being funny at one stage. It all started when Vaughan disagreed with Hafeez’s analysis of Virat Kohli’s knock in ongoing ICC World Cup 2023.
Kohli, in the CWC 2023 match between India and South Africa in Kolkata, scored a brilliant 101* and along with Shreyas Iyer’s 77* and Rohit Sharma’s 40, took India to 326/5 in a tricky pitch in Kolkata. In response, Ravindra Jadeja’s fifer ensured that South Africa was bowled out for 83 runs as India won by 243 runs.
This was India’s 8th win in CWC 2023 and they have already qualified for the semi-finals, along with South Africa and Australia.
While analyzing the match on a Pakistani TV show, Mohammad Hafeez said that Virat Kohli played selfishly in the death overs and continued to take singles and doubles to reach what was a Record equaling 49th ODI ton for him. Hafeez said that Kohli should have gone for big shots instead of playing the anchoring role.
Michael Vaughan disagreed with Hafeez’s opinion saying that it was a tricky pitch on which his century helped India post 300 plus runs and then win by 243 runs.
Further Vaughan shared a clip of Hafeez getting clean bowled by Virat Kohli in T20 World Cup 2012 and said that this might be the reason why Hafeez always criticizes Kohli.
Now in response, Mohammad Hafeez tried his hand at trolling Vaughan by sharing a clip of his own. The video shows Michael Vaughan playing a pull shot to Azhar Mahmood only to get caught by Hafeez at the boundary.
“Morning @MichaelVaughan,” posted Hafeez.
But instead of taking offense, Vaughan made a hilarious comment to Hafeez saying that it was one of his better shots in one-day cricket.
Vaughan quoted Hafeez’s post and wrote: “Morning @MHafeez22.. that’s actually one of my better shots in ODI cricket so thanks for showing everyone”
Mohammad Hafeez couldn’t come up with a better response and could only say: “Talk sense to a fool and he calls u foolish….”
