‘Rishabh Pant is the Indian Shahid Afridi’: the former Pakistani captain makes a huge complaint | Cricket news

Rishabh Pant made a strong impression on the former Pakistani captain Mushtaq Mohammad, who compared the Indian Window Guiche to Shahid Afridi – and even went further.“Rishabh Pant is Indian Shahid Afridi, in fact it is even better than it has when he has a bat in his hand,” Mushtaq told PTI when he attended the fourth day of the India-Angleterre test in Edgbaston.

His admiration for Pant is part of a wider inclination for Indian cricket, which he continues to follow closely despite the fact that most of his life in Pakistan and now in the United Kingdom. Mushtaq also congratulated Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, saying: “Kohli could have played two more years. He should be here with the test team. I don’t know why he retired. ”

Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!The 81 -year -old man, who now lives in Birmingham, made the headlines in Edgbaston by carrying a tie starring the Indian flag – a calm but powerful reminder of his roots in Junagadh, Gujarat, from where he emigrated to Pakistan at the age of six.“I would love to go to the place where I was born and I grew up. The closest where I came to visit Junagarh was when I played the Dilip Sardesai performance game in Ahmedabad. I could have taken the train to Junagrah, but the calendar was so tight. Unfortunately, I could not come back after that,” he told PTI.Mushtaq visited India twice: in 1961 for a series of tests and in 1978 for the match for the advantages. But despite his desire to visit his birthplace, visa complications – in particular as a Pakistani national – continue to block his return. He remembers having been unable to attend the wedding of the daughter of his close friend of Bishan Singh Bedi for this reason.He became emotional while speaking of Bedi, the legendary Indian spinner and his longtime teammate in Northampothire. Mushtaq attributes Bedi for unlocked his Bowler potential:“Bishan, what a humorous man. He loved his cricket. We played Northampothire for six years, our families loved each other. I recently met the Bedi family in London, the Grand Zaheer Abbas was also there. I cannot forget these years. Very sad to lose it, Low Yaadein Rahe Jaati Hain.“His contribution to Northampothire and English cricket is great. He helped me become the launcher I have become. My selection on the side was like a paste that could play a little. I loved the bowling alley but nobody trusted me. When Bishan saw me play in Northampton, he said you had a great ability to play. He used to spend time with me in the nets, he told me how to play. (He would tell me) “don’t be afraid if you are touched for a six as a leg spinner”. The spinners buy their counter.“He told me a lot about the turn of the legs and I became a good bowler. At the end of my career, I had a lot of races but I never thought that I could get 936 counters in the first class cricket. It is a lot for someone who did not believe in himself. Bishan was the only one to have made me a quinrôleur.”The former Pakistani captain remains close to many great Indians, including Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev. “Gavaskar was the best striker in my time. He scored so many hundreds against this attack on the Antilles and that too without a helmet. It was incredible,” he noted.In the current cricket landscape, Mushtaq recognizes the domination of India and deplores the absence of the Bilateral Indian-Pakistani series, adding: “Indian cricket is undoubtedly above. Everyone wants to play India for obvious (financial) reasons. One thing that is close to my heart is in India that plays Pakistan in their respective country.“”