Monday, October 09, 2023
Giving a bizarre rationale, Pakistan's previous captain Shahid Afridi has said that playing the Indian Head Association (IPL) and eating meat is the explanation for their superior presentation.
Afridi, 43, was chatting on a nearby games show when he was asked about the justification behind what good reason Indian cricket has changed as well as the country, which is known for delivering extraordinary players, has now begun to make incredible bowlers too.
"India has a gigantic 1.4 billion populace, and the nature of cricket has changed [over the years]. In those days we used to say that they are delivering extraordinary players while Pakistan is making great bowlers, however that was not the situation as we were producing the two bowlers and hitters," Afridi said.
"Be that as it may, their bowlers have now begun eating meat, so they have acquired strength," he laughed.
Afridi, who captained the Green Shirts in the 2011 World Cup, credited IPL and previous skippers like Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni and others for working on the nature of cricket in India.
"First Sourav Ganguly rolled out such countless improvements during his captaincy and afterward the manner in which MS Dhoni conveyed every one of the seniors with him. They [BCCI] put resources into the ideal locations.
"They worked on their grassroots level cricket by giving the whole homegrown framework to a player like Rahul Dravid, who can say for sure what the children [domestic players] need to arrive at the top. They really buckled down, and presently they continue to create abilities. Assuming that India need, they can make two groups now," Afridi added.
Throughout the long term, India had not delivered extraordinary quick bowlers but rather the pattern has changed as, simply over the most recent couple of years, abilities like Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj arose as two of the best pacers on the planet.
"They contributed at the perfect locations and presently individuals of India are redirecting their consideration towards it [bowling]. They constructed camps and the ability is coming."
It should be noticed that Siraj is positioned the main bowler in One Day Internationals (ODIs). He was likewise the person who controlled India to an uneven triumph in the Asia Cup 2023 last against Sri Lanka by recording his vocation best figures of 6-21.
