Chopra responds on Afridi’s comment ‘Indians asked for forgiveness’


Chopra responds on Afridi’s comment ‘Indians asked for forgiveness’

shahid afridi and aakash chopra

In a recent interview with Cric Cast show on Youtube, Afridi said, “I have always enjoyed India. Unhe to theek-thaak mara hai humne. Itna mara hai unhe ki match ke baad maafiyan mangi hai unhone. (We’ve thrashed them a lot. I believe we’ve beaten them so much that they used to ask us for forgiveness after the match).”

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Aakash Chopra focused on the stats which shows the equal balance between both the teams and Indian performance in T20 matches during Afridi’s time.

“Pakistan team used to be good at one point. It is still an okay team today. But there was a time when India used to play against Pakistan at Sharjah and the balance was tilted towards the neighboring nation. But it was not the ‘Afridi time’ that he is talking about”, said Chopra in his latest video.

“Pakistan’s strength was sheer talent – from Imran Khan to Wasim Akram to Waqar Younis. Because of it, they did really well. They used to beat India, there is no doubt about that. But later, when Afridi started playing and till the time he retired, things had changed,” Chopra added.

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With referring to the stats between India and Pakistan matches, Chopra said, “If you look at the stats, we played 15 Tests, each of us have won 5 Tests each. In ODIs, you have won two more games than us. The stat is 41-39 in your favour in 82 games, so well done. But I doubt that anyone is going to ask for forgiveness for just losing two more games.”

“But when you talk about T20I, the format in which you were really good, India lead the head-to-head contest by 7-1. Isn’t the story told backwards? Maybe, he (Afridi) wanted to say something else, and he said something else. I am really surprised,” Chopra further added.

“During Afridi’s time, the scenario was balanced, in fact it was starting to tilt in favour of India. And if we talk about the current scenario, there is quite a difference.” Chopra concluded.

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