All over the world, there is hardly a rivalry that is as intense, emotional, and widely follow as the one between the Indian and Pakistani cricket team. There is nothing more the fanbases of the national teams of the two neighboring nations want than a victory over the other.
In last few decades, whenever two sides have met each other on the cricket field, there have numerous memorable encounters.
Not only have the two teams produce some high quality matches, the matches between these two sides have not short of on-field drama either.
Ex-Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has made a sensational claim stating that the team management told Pak players to try and disturb the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Ajay Jadeja, Navjot Singh Sidhu, and Vinod Kambli.
Basit Ali made a big revelation and said that an exception was made for Mohammad Azharuddin.
Also Basit Ali claim that there was a lot of respect for the former Indian skipper in the Pakistan dressing room.
Basit Ali Said :
“Before every India match, I was given the responsibility to sledge the Indian players. I was told to disturb Sachin (Tendulkar), Jadeja (Ajay), Sidhu (Navjot), Kambli (Vinod), but the moment Azhar bhai’s name use to come, the entire team unanimously said no one would disturb Azhar bhai. I don’t have words to describe the amount of respect we use to have for Azhar bhai in our dressing room,”.
‘’Be it Wasim (Akram) bhai, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, Inzmam-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis, they would not dare to sledge Azhar bhai. I don’t think any Pakistan player ever insult Azhar bhai. As Azhar bhai use to bat at No 3 and when the likes of Ganguly and Dravid came up, he start batting low down the order and gave the youngsters his slot,”.
All this Basit Ali said on his Youtube channel.
