Irfan Pathan’s Befitting Reply to Shahid Afridi, The Heated Verbal War Went Viral

News India Live, Digital Desk: Don’T Starve on the Cricket Field: A recent public rhetoric has made a lot of headlines between former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi and former Indian cricket player Irfan Pathan. The matter began when Afridi gave an unexpected advice to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) president Mohsin Naqvi regarding the performance of the Pakistan team. Afridi had advised Naqvi that he should ask for some answers from the team selectors. Afridi’s statement came after the playoff phase of the ninth season of Pakistan Super League (PSL), where Islamabad United defeated Quetta Gladiators. Afridi had alleged that his franchise players were not motivated by a board official for the tournament.

Subsequently, Afridi also made fun of Irfan Pathan’s comment on Star Sports during the Asia Cup 2023. This comment came after India’s victory over Pakistan, when Pathan allegedly said that “we still won, but that day something we had deteriorated,” in terms of Pakistan’s defeat. Afridi took a dig at this and said that “Some people say in Pakistan that any of their diseases come to us.”

These comments did not end here. Pathan resorted to social media and gave a befitting reply with a poem, in which he indirectly reminded Afridi of the old and false accusations of ‘a dog, who Kha Dogai Meet’. This old and concoction tells that Afridi once ate an ‘animal’, after which he was allegedly started ‘bhunka’. Pathan wrote in his tweet, “Sometimes there is a need to tell the front person on the field how many great players you were and how many runs you scored or how many wickets, and it is a matter of the ground, let it stay up to the field and do not go to the cricket field, and do not behave on the cricket field, and do not behave like a man who ate dog meat and he was barking as I said …!

This sharp response of Pathan is being seen as an attempt to silence Afridi for his ‘border cross’ statements. The rivalry on the field between the cricketers of the two countries often turns into such oral battles, which draws a lot of attention to the fans. This incident is also another example of how the statements of celebrities associated with the sports world often become the subject of debate on social media.