Saqlain Mushtaq: “When he came, he offered me coffee. We talked for 30 minutes. I was ashamed of myself that I had thought that he [thought] highly of himself. He guided me and asked me about my knee”
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Legendary Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq said he was ashamed he thought former India captain Sourav Ganguly was very full of himself.
Aakash Chopra: “Going by the stats, Babar Azam should be the No.5, but I am not including him in my list. He has scored 735 runs in 26 matches, his average is only 32, and his strike rate is merely 123. Sorry! But I can’t take him in my team”
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Former India batsman Aakash Chopra said he can’t include Pakistan captain Babar Azam in his list of the top five T20 batters in 2022.
Shoaib Akhtar: “So, Sachin, being a nice, greatest guy on the planet Earth, greatest batsman… I went up to him, looked at him, checked him out and said ‘Brother, you have no chance against me'”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar recalled telling iconic India batsman Sachin Tendulkar that he had “no chance” of surviving against his bowling.
Aaqib Javed: “Bowlers like Arshdeep are ‘just bowlers’. They don’t have a trademark and the opposition doesn’t even think about such bowlers”
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Lahore Qalandars head coach Aaqib Javed said the Pakistan team doesn’t even think about bowlers like India speedster Arshdeep Singh as he is nothing more than average.
Sachin Tendulkar: “Shaheen is an attacking bowler and he likes to go for wickets”
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Iconic India batsman Sachin Tendulkar has praised Pakistan quick Shaheen Shah Afridi for constantly being on the hunt for wickets and having a very attacking mindset.
Saeed Ajmal: “Arshdeep Singh, kya baat hai! He bowls brilliantly. Unke wrists se pata nahi chalta hai (You can’t figure out by his wrists) which ball he is going to move away or which one he’ll bring back in”
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Former Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal said there is no way to know which way the ball will move when India left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh is bowling.
Sanjay Bangar: “I feel, in the batting department, it’s clear that Pakistan is over dependent on their top order like Babar and Rizwan”
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Former India batsman Sanjay Bangar said Pakistan depend way too much on captain Babar Azam and wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan.
Saeed Ajmal: “The delivery that comes back in from a left-arm fast bowler, that is the ball which is very difficult to face”
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Former Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal said India left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh is “very difficult to face”, especially when he swings the ball back in.
Saqlain Mushtaq: “I had a feeling that he thinks very highly of himself. So I never talked to him”
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Pakistan head coach Saqlain Mushtaq said he never really talked to Sourav Ganguly since he felt the former India captain thought “very highly of himself”.
Sachin Tendulkar: “He pitches the ball up and backs himself to swing the ball”
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India batting legend Sachin Tendulkar said what makes Pakistan left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi so dangerous is the fact that he backs himself to swing the ball.
