“He Wasn’t…”: Shan Masood Breaks Silence On Rumours Of Rift With Shaheen Afridi

Pakistan cricket isn’t having time, be it on or off the bottom. Whereas the facet suffered an embarrassing 2-0 loss to Bangladesh within the recently-concluded Take a look at collection, there have been additionally rumours concerning the staff having cracks in it. A video involving Pakistan captain Shan Masood and star pacer Shaheen Afridi had gone viral on social media after the primary Take a look at and the web speculated that each one was not nicely between the duo. Within the video, Shan was standing subsequent to Shaheen throughout a staff hurdle when the latter eliminated the previous’s arms from his shoulders. After Pakistan’s collection loss to Bangladesh, Masood has cleared the air on the incident.

“No. There may be nothing like that,” mentioned Masood when he was requested to touch upon the rumours that he can be stepping down from his position of Pakistan Take a look at captain after the facet’s loss to Bangladesh.

“There additionally got here a (hearsay/misunderstanding) that I saved my hand on Shaheen’s shoulder and he eliminated it. He wasn’t offended with me, he really injured his shoulder by Rana’s supply. I saved my hand on the similar damage level,” mentioned Masood on the press convention after the second Take a look at.

One other video of Masood had gone viral by which he was seen having a heated dialog with Pakistan head coach Jason Gillespie within the dressing room.

Take a look at captain Shan Masood addresses rumored rift with Shaheen Shah Afridi

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Explaining the incident, Masood mentioned, “Then got here a (report) that I used to be fuming at Gillespie. Our second new ball that was 8 overs previous went out of the bottom after Litton Das hit a six. Nevertheless, the substitute ball that we obtained was 18 to 19 overs previous. We had been saying that we should always have been given a brand new ball slightly. I used to be complaining about that. That is the rationale we attempt to social media much less throughout video games.”