Pakistan And India between the Cricket The on-field rivalry between the two traditional rivals is not limited to the field and sometimes the off-field tension spills over onto the cricket pitch.
This year, the teams of Pakistan and India will compete against each other first in the Asia Cup and then in the World Cup.
Recent years have seen friendly relations and exchange of good words between the players of the two teams.
But in the past few players of both the teams were seen confusing each other not only on the field but also on social networking websites.
The last time India and Pakistan faced each other in a bilateral series was in 2012, since then Pakistan and India have not played a series.
In this report, we will mention a few such controversies that not only affected the ongoing competitions on the field, but their intensity was also felt outside the field.
Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi fight
In the year 2007, when the Pakistani team visited India for a series of five one-day matches. In the 20th over of the third match of the series which was played in Kanpur, Gautam Gambhir hit Shahid Afridi for a four after which he stared at Shahid Afridi.
On the very next ball, Gautam Gambhir collided with Shahid Afridi while running to take a run, after which bitter words were exchanged between the two and the umpires and other players intervened to prevent the matter from going any further.
Regarding this fight, Shahid Afridi has written in his book Game Changer that ‘I remember the conflict with Gambhir in 2007 when he collided with me trying to take a single.
‘The umpires had to intervene to end the fight otherwise I would have ended the fight myself. We had said a lot about each other’s families on that occasion.’
Shahid Afridi described Gautam Gambhir as a person with negative attitude in his book. After Afridi’s book came out, Gautam Gambhar criticized Shahid Afridi on his X account (formerly Twitter) and invited him to come to India for treatment.
The conflict between the two former players that started on the field continues even after 16 years and has been repeated many times on social media.
Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar feud
In the year 2010 Asia Cup The match between Pakistan and India ended with the victory of India, but the quarrel between Harbhajan Singh and Pakistani speed star Shoaib Akhtar in this match continued to be in the news even years after the match.
Shoaib Akhtar and Harbhajan Singh have said in many interviews that they are good friends off the field but in this match their friendship turned into enmity for a few hours.
Pakistan, playing first, gave India a target of 268 runs, in response to which the Indian team scored 219 runs in the 45th over.
The Indian team needed 49 runs off 29 balls when batsmen Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh took the match into the last two overs to take the Indian team just 16 runs away from victory.
When Shoaib Akhtar came to bowl the 49th over, Suresh Raina was in front of him at the batting end.
On the very first ball of the over, Suresh Raina hit Shoaib Akhtar for a six, but while making a comeback, Shoaib Akhtar gave only three runs in the next five balls.
On the last ball of the over, Shoaib Akhtar hit a bouncer to Harbhajan, at the end of the over Shoaib Akhtar and Harbhajan Singh exchanged bitter words.
The last over of the match was bowled by Mohammad Amir who was hit by Harbhajan Singh for a six to win the match for India.
At the end of the match, Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar once again appeared confused with each other, but after this incident, both have expressed their shame for their behavior.
Gautam Gambhir Vs Kamran Akmal’s Bitter Talk
The 2010 Asia Cup is not only memorable because of the bitterness between Shoaib Akhtar and Harbhajan Singh, but during this time, Gautam Gambhir once again tangled with another Pakistani player.
This time Pakistan team’s keeper Kamran Akmal was against him. When Kamran Akmal continuously appealed for a catch during Gambhir’s batting, Gambhir went to Kamran Akmal during the water break and started messing with him.
Where Kamran Akmal was going to sit down, he also answered Turkish by Turkish, then the conversation started to escalate.
In such a situation, other players and umpires stopped both and Indian captain Dhoni grabbed Gautam Gambhir and took him away from Kamran Akmal, after which the fight was possible to end.
Aamir Sohail and Vinketish Prashad’s hotness
The 1996 World Cup is a bitter memory for Pakistani fans, but during this match, if Pakistani batsman Amir Sohail had not called out Indian bowler Vinketish Prasad after hitting a boundary, the result of this match might have been different.
In this quarter-final played in Bangalore, the Indian team, while playing first, gave Pakistan a target of 288 runs.
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When the Pakistani team started batting, the opening batsmen played fast and brought Pakistan’s score to 113 in 15 overs.
Among them were Aamir Sohail’s fifty runs which he scored while playing at a strike rate of over 100.
During the 15th over, Aamir Sohail hit Prasad for a boundary at cover, after which he pointed Prasad towards the boundary while showing the bat.
On the very next ball, Venkatesh Prasad bowled Aamir Sohail and he signaled to leave the field.
After Aamir Sohail, the Pakistani team continued to lose wickets and India won the match by 39 runs.
Javed Miandad and Karan More’s fight
of 1992 The World Cup The short but hilarious fight between Pakistani team batsman Javed Miandad and Kiran More during
India batted first and scored 216 runs. In response, the Pakistani team started batting and soon lost early wickets.
Aamir Sohail showed some resistance but he also went for an individual score of 62 after which Pakistan team started to advance in the match with the help of Javed Miandad.
Meanwhile, Indian wicketkeeper Kiran More started talking from behind the stumps to distract Javed Miandad.
On which Javed Miandad stopped him by expressing his displeasure, but where was Kiran Mori going to stop.
He continued to speak from behind the wickets, while Javed Miandad tried to take a single but had to return to the crease as Kiran Morey blew the bails while catching a throw to him but Javed My father-in-law had reached the crease by then.
At this point, Javed Miandad started jumping imitating Kiran More.
This light-hearted banter between Javed Miandad and Kiran More just ended there and both the players decided not to take the matter any further.
Commenting on this incident, Kiran More said that ‘Javed Miandad jumped and imitated me for talking continuously behind the wickets, Javed Miandad is a very interesting character. After this incident we became very good friends.’
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