Shahid Afridi: “He (Shaheen Afridi) has been playing for some time now. You don’t know from where you have to bowl the last over. He has been told many times, he should know these things by now. He has been repeating his old mistakes again and again”
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Former Pakistan big-hitter Shahid Afridi has lashed out at his son-in-law, left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi, for making the same mistakes over and over again when bowling in the death overs.
Shahid Afridi: “I don’t want runs from Shaheen, I want bowling from Shaheen… Shaheen should understand that his role is to swing the new ball and he should know how to take wickets by moving the ball. He should focus on his game plan”
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Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi said he expects his son-in-law, Shaheen Shah Afridi, to concentrate on taking wickets instead of scoring runs.
Shahid Afridi: “Shaheen should play mind games, he can take wickets in the beginning. I would like him to win the match for Pakistan with his bowling”
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Pakistan big-hitting icon Shahid Afridi wants to see his son-in-law, Shaheen Shah Afridi, start playing mind games with opposition batsmen and win games with his bowling.
Shahid Afridi: “I’ve stopped speaking because my comments about Shaheen often lead to negativity. I don’t praise him much and usually end up scolding him, which creates a negative image”
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Legendary Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi said he has stopped talking about left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi as his comments regularly get turned into negativity.
Shahid Afridi: “If the decision on Shaheen’s captaincy had been made and you (PCB) had stated that he will remain the captain till the [T20] World Cup, then I think Babar [Azam] should have supported Shaheen”
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Former Pakistan big-hitter Shahid Afridi believes limited overs captain Babar Azam “should have supported” left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi when he was T20I skipper.
Shahid Afridi: “I want Shaheen to focus on his own cricket. I always tried to keep Shaheen away from captaincy”
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Legendary power-hitter Shahid Afridi has revealed that he tried to keep his son-in-law Shaheen Shah Afridi away from the Pakistan captaincy.
Shahid Afridi: “I want to see him (Rizwan) as the T20 captain but mistakenly, Shaheen became the skipper”
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Legendary big-hitter Shahid Afridi said left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi “mistakenly” became Pakistan’s T20I captain.
Shahid Afridi: “I wanted to keep Shaheen away from the captaincy”
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Legendary big-hitting batsman Shahid Afridi admitted that he wanted Pakistan left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi kept “away from the captaincy.”
Shahid Afridi: “I always have been in favour of Mohammad Rizwan”
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Legendary all-rounder Shahid Afridi revealed that he always favoured wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan as Pakistan’s T20I captain.
Shahid Afridi: “Whose mouths should I shut? By reading things on social media, I’m just feeling regretful”
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Legendary big-hitting all-rounder Shahid Afridi has asked “whose mouths should I shut” as he is sick and tired of hearing that he advocated for Shaheen Shah Afridi to replace Babar Azam as Pakistan captain.
