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Gautam Gambhir, Shahid Afridi (Image Credit: Twitter)
Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi don't see each other eye to eye since their ugly spat in an ODI game way back in 2007. Over the years, the former Pakistan skipper hasn't been able to let go and has spoken ill of his Indian counterpart. Once again, ahead of the ongoing game between India and Pakistan, Afridi has claimed that the Indian team never took Gambhir seriously.
“Fans talk about any kind of fight between me and Gambhir, I really don’t think so. It is because even many players of the Indian team don’t like Gautam Gambhir,” said Afridi in his statement.
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This is wrong statement by Afridi 😡@GautamGambhir always will be hero whole india .....Afridi says India team hi pasand nhi karti what nonsense🤬 don't speak anything about gauti sir🌍
We loved ❤️ Gautam gambhir pic.twitter.com/iugWFXPZ91— AJ (@biharshain) August 28, 2022
Talking about the game, the Men In Blue skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. At the toss, he said that the toss doesn't matter at all and having a score in front of them will be good for them.
'I don't think the toss is that important. Having played here for a few years now, I thought having a score in front of us would be a good option. There is some grass covering and we want to exploit it. Rishabh Pant unfortunately misses out, we got out with Karthik. Avesh is the third seamer,' Rohit said at the toss.
India playing XI: 1 Rohit Sharma(capt), 2 KL Rahul, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Avesh Khan, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Arshdeep Singh
On the other hand, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam also wanted to bowl first.
'We wanted to bowl first but that is not in our hand. Three fast bowlers, two spinners and Naseem is making his debut.' he said.
Pakistan playing XI: 1 Babar Azam (capt), 2 Mohammad Rizwan (wk) 3, Fakhar Zaman, 4 Iftikhar Ahmed, 5 Khushdil Shah, 6 Asif Ali, 7 Shadab Khan, 8 Mohammad Nawaz, 9 Naseem Shah, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Shahnawaz Dahani