Shahid Afridi breaks silence on India-Pakistan match fiasco: There’s one rotten egg
Controversial Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi stoked fireplace on Sunday, July 20 in opposition to the Indian staff, which pulled out of their match in opposition to Pakistan on the World Championship of Legends (WCL 2025). A number of gamers from the Indian staff opted out of the exhibition recreation in opposition to Pakistan because of the presence of Shahid Afridi, who had made some problematic statements in opposition to India in the course of the tensions between the 2 nations.
Chatting with the native media on Sunday, the day that the match was scheduled to be performed, Shahid Afridi claimed that even the Indian cricketers had been disillusioned to not play the sport and blamed the pull-out on Shikhar Dhawan, who had publicly introduced that he wouldn’t play the exhibition match if Afridi was a part of the Pakistan line-up.
Afridi referred to as Dhawan a ‘rotten egg’ and blamed him for ‘spoiling’ the remainder of the Indian cricketers.
“…Sports activities brings nations nearer. If politics comes between every thing then how will you progress ahead? With out communication, issues can’t be solved. The concept for these sorts of occasions can also be to fulfill one on one. However you understand, there may be all the time one rotten egg, which spoils every thing,” Shahid Afridi advised the media on Sunday, July 20.
Afridi additional added gasoline to the hearth by insinuating that Dhawan was a humiliation for his nation. He went on so as to add that the Indian staff ought to have stayed house if they didn’t need to play cricket on the WCL 2025.
“They educated a day earlier than the match. I feel that they pulled out simply due to one man. Even the Indian staff may be very disillusioned. They had been right here to play. I’m telling you, try to be a very good ambassador for the nation, not a humiliation,” Afridi stated.
Shahid Afridi’s Double Requirements
The phrases of sports activities diplomacy are available sharp distinction to the feedback made by Shahid Afridi within the month of April, the place he had alleged that the Indian authorities carried out assaults by itself residents in Pahalgam.
“The terrorists continued to kill folks in Pahalgam for an hour, and never a single Indian soldier out of 8 lakh confirmed up. However once they did, they blamed Pakistan,” Afridi had advised native reporters in Pakistan.
“India carries out terrorism itself, kills its personal folks, after which places the blame on Pakistan,” he stated.
On Sunday, Afridi turned up in one other avatar, stating that he was there as an envoy of cricket and was vastly disillusioned that the match didn’t happen at Edgbaston.
“We had been very excited to play the second match (vs India). I believed we’d be on the floor. We had been anticipating 17,000–18,000 followers, who would have loved the match. However yeah, it’s fairly disappointing that we didn’t play,” he stated on Sunday.
Afridi additional claimed that if he had identified that the Indian staff had issues along with his presence, he would have eliminated himself from Sunday’s recreation.
“If they didn’t play for me, I’d have stayed house. Cricket ought to have continued. Who’s Shahid Afridi in entrance of cricket? Nobody. If they didn’t need to play why did they arrive right here? Go sit at house and play between yourselves,” he added.
The India vs Pakistan match at WCL 2025 was imagined to be the primary cricketing occasion between India and Pakistan since Operation Sindoor. Nonetheless, the match was referred to as off after an enormous backlash from Indian residents on social media, who questioned the previous cricketers for collaborating in an occasion alongside Pakistan cricketers amid cross-border tensions with the neighbouring state.
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