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Imran farhat on his twitter has gone the full Monty and has stated afridi has been fooling him for fifteen years. That he is a blackmailer and is behind dressing room fights and has a big ego. He blackmailed the PCB through his sponsorships, thus ijaz butt wanted him kicked out.

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Afridi has brought this upon himself. But hardly big news if Imran Farhat is saying it.
 
Thank God. This Mediocre Player career is finally over (Shahid Afridi). I mean he was a liability, good for T20 but for any other format he was average. He gave us his moments of brilliance and that was it.

His Book 📚 is just shocking, he is not even 10% of the players he has mentioned that he had problems with or pointing that they didn’t deserve to lead the team like Shaoib Malik, we all know it yousaf and his lobby went after Malik and got him out.

But seriously Afridi act like he has won us many WC and he is a legend. Sarfraz taking over Odi and T20 is the best decision pcb made.
 
finally a lot of people seeing Afridis real face but Farhat just did what we Pakistanis are famous for ����*♂️
 
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Abdullah719 said:
Nothing. No mention of Farhat in the book that I could find.
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I checked his tweets and he said he will take time out to respond to Afridi’s ‘B.S’. Maybe Afridi mentioned things with underlying messages at some of these boys.

Imran Farhat
Salman Butt
Faisal Iqbal
Yasir Hameed

These boys were a group that didn’t get on with Afridi I feel
 
Abdullah719 said:
Nothing. No mention of Farhat in the book that I could find.
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That's exactly I was going to ask!

If I have to guess - Ijaz Butt (ex-PCB Chairman) who had altercation with Afridi was a good friend of Mohammad Ilyas.... and Ijaz Butt appointed Mohammad Ilyas as Chief Selector.
Imran Farhat is Mohammad Ilyas's son-in-law. Of course, Imran Farhat kept getting selected Ilyas was Chief Selector.

So Imran is sreacming because Afridi must have written something about Ijaz Butt or even Ilyas.

So that Why should one believe this biggest pa~rchi (Farhat) - who was only getting selected because his father-in-law was the chief selector at that time.
 
Tbf Farhat had steller domestic numbers and was decent in test matches alongside Toufique Umar. The last time he was selected out of blue, there was criticism in media and he had dignity to withdraw from the tour citing "personal reasons".

Afridi hogged onto the allrounder's spot undeservedly (which Azhar, Razzaq, or even Saqlain Mushtaq deserved) for a very long time with mediocre returns. His bowling numbers are hardly inspiring (less than one wicket per match), while his batting was as good as that of a reckless tailender, no better than Hasan Ali's.
 
KyoOne said:
Tbf Farhat had steller domestic numbers and was decent in test matches alongside Toufique Umar. The last time he was selected out of blue, there was criticism in media and he had dignity to withdraw from the tour citing "personal reasons".

Afridi hogged onto the allrounder's spot undeservedly (which Azhar, Razzaq, or even Saqlain Mushtaq deserved) for a very long time with mediocre returns. His bowling numbers are hardly inspiring (less than one wicket per match), while his batting was as good as that of a reckless tailender, no better than Hasan Ali's.
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Lala has won a wt20 trophy singlehandedly.
 
Cringe worthy tweets by Immy Farhat.

After Shobby Malik, IMO Immy Farhat was the second most gifted batsmen to come out of Pakistan in last 19-20 years.

But he needs to stop being a ghatiya aadmi and give credit to Afridi.
 
lahoriyah1234 said:
Thank God. This Mediocre Player career is finally over (Shahid Afridi). I mean he was a liability, good for T20 but for any other format he was average. He gave us his moments of brilliance and that was it.
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Thanks for clarifying that the mediocre player you were talking about is Afridi. Because sometimes when we are talking about two mediocre players (Lala and Farhat) it can get confusing.
 
Imran Farhat and his broken english on twitter :))
 
freelance_cricketer said:
Cringe worthy tweets by Immy Farhat.

After Shobby Malik, IMO Immy Farhat was the second most gifted batsmen to come out of Pakistan in last 19-20 years.

But he needs to stop being a ghatiya aadmi and give credit to Afridi.
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Both are mediocre players of pace bowling their gifts must have been hidden.
 
I have read Afridi's book, he has not mentioned Imran Farhat at all. During his conflict with Ijaz Butt and Mohd Ilyas in 2011, he mentioned that all Ilyas cared about was playing his son in law in the team. This was no secret, the whole world knew about it.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am utterly amashmed from what I have heard and read so far regarding this new book of Mr Afridi, someone who has lied about his age for 20 odd years now decides to come clean and name and blame some of our living legends</p>— Imran Farhat (@imranfarhat1982) <a href="https://twitter.com/imranfarhat1982/status/1125402235452571651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have allot of stories to tell regarding this so called Saint we have had the pleasure of playing with. He sure is talented enough to become a politician.</p>— Imran Farhat (@imranfarhat1982) <a href="https://twitter.com/imranfarhat1982/status/1125402565137420289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have a fair few stories to tell and I urge all the players who have been named and shamed to speak up and tell the truth about this selfish player who has ruined plenty of careers for his own good</p>— Imran Farhat (@imranfarhat1982) <a href="https://twitter.com/imranfarhat1982/status/1125402770519945217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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I am no Farhat fan but I am actually on his side. Afridi has time and again proven himself to be a very shallow person and a hypocrite. He is now bad mouthing our legends and throwing people he played with under the bus. Terrible!
 
All this is helping Afridi sell his book so I am sure he doesnt mind.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
Cringe worthy tweets by Immy Farhat.

After Shobby Malik, IMO Immy Farhat was the second most gifted batsmen to come out of Pakistan in last 19-20 years.

But he needs to stop being a ghatiya aadmi and give credit to Afridi.
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Malik, gifted? Even in his peak I dont think it could have been said about him. I suppose it depends on the definition of gifted maybe.
 
Have seen Imran Farhat speak in English before and it looked decent enough. I have seen him do expert analysis on PTV Sports and he sounded very methodical and logical which was mind boggling why he could not apply it to his game. Am shocked at his extremely poor english writing.
 
There is some truth to what Farhat is claiming. It was laughable when Afridi had retired from all formats but stayed as the T20 captain. No country will have a specialist T20 captain.
 
You guys can poke fun at farhat's career and all but I reckon he's made some valid points regarding opportunistic Afridi.
 
Savak said:
Have seen Imran Farhat speak in English before and it looked decent enough. I have seen him do expert analysis on PTV Sports and he sounded very methodical and logical which was mind boggling why he could not apply it to his game. Am shocked at his extremely poor english writing.
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Maybe very angry!
 
Lost of opportunities
Hafeez
Shohaib
Afridi
Misbah
Kamran
Amir
Salman Butt
Mohammed Asif
Shohaib akhtar
Wasim Akram
Waqar younis
Inzamam ul haq
Javaid miandad
List goes on
Bunch of full
 
If I was Afridi, I would look over at Imran Farhat and say in the words of Conor Mcgregor, "Who the **** is that guy?!" HAhaha...this will only make sense to people on here that also watch a bit of UFC :p haha

This is just a case of Imran Farhat being jealous, that even whilst being a ******, he has no major accomplishments or accolades to speak of. As far as Afridi's position in the team I feel on most occasions they were justified, after serving for soo Pakistan for so many years, the guy was dropped to Pakistan A, and his first match back he bags 7/12 against WIndies (2nd best bowling figures in the world), he has the most MoM for any Pakistani player...he contributed in all 3 facets of the game, batting bowling and fielding...the guy was a warrior and played for his country and you could see it on his face. (doesnt hide emotion well) the guy won us the 2009 wT20, and that asia cup match against India, he was the best bowler in 2011 world cup and had Misbah not been a complete imbecile in the Semi's he wouldve been lifting that trophy for Pakistan on Indian soil...as a cricketing nation we dont have too many things we look back on and celebrate but there are a few with Afridi in em! I mean if you think about it, its been 4 years since he has retired from ODI's and we still cant find a replacement for him, says it all.
 
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says the guys who literally spent years in the team because his father-in-law was a influential selector
 
Ramzaan ka mahina hai, everyone should calm down.
 
Afridi may have underachieved in his career but what he done for pakistan players like farhat could only dream off. He was probably the last household global superstar int he pakistani team and we owe a lot of that 2009 t20 world cup win to him especially in the knock out stages.
 
shahidbhai said:
If I was Afridi, I would look over at Imran Farhat and say in the words of Conor Mcgregor, "Who the **** is that guy?!" HAhaha...this will only make sense to people on here that also watch a bit of UFC :p haha

This is just a case of Imran Farhat being jealous, that even whilst being a ******, he has no major accomplishments or accolades to speak of. As far as Afridi's position in the team I feel on most occasions they were justified, after serving for soo Pakistan for so many years, the guy was dropped to Pakistan A, and his first match back he bags 7/12 against WIndies (2nd best bowling figures in the world), he has the most MoM for any Pakistani player...he contributed in all 3 facets of the game, batting bowling and fielding...the guy was a warrior and played for his country and you could see it on his face. (doesnt hide emotion well) the guy won us the 2009 wT20, and that asia cup match against India, he was the best bowler in 2011 world cup and had Misbah not been a complete imbecile in the Semi's he wouldve been lifting that trophy for Pakistan on Indian soil...as a cricketing nation we dont have too many things we look back on and celebrate but there are a few with Afridi in em! I mean if you think about it, its been 4 years since he has retired from ODI's and we still cant find a replacement for him, says it all.
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Even when he was fighting with Ilyas in 2011, Afridi mentioned that Imran Farhat was a good guy and didn't say anything negative about him.
 
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shahidbhai said:
If I was Afridi, I would look over at Imran Farhat and say in the words of Conor Mcgregor, "Who the **** is that guy?!" HAhaha...this will only make sense to people on here that also watch a bit of UFC :p haha

This is just a case of Imran Farhat being jealous, that even whilst being a ******, he has no major accomplishments or accolades to speak of. As far as Afridi's position in the team I feel on most occasions they were justified, after serving for soo Pakistan for so many years, the guy was dropped to Pakistan A, and his first match back he bags 7/12 against WIndies (2nd best bowling figures in the world), he has the most MoM for any Pakistani player...he contributed in all 3 facets of the game, batting bowling and fielding...the guy was a warrior and played for his country and you could see it on his face. (doesnt hide emotion well) the guy won us the 2009 wT20, and that asia cup match against India, he was the best bowler in 2011 world cup and had Misbah not been a complete imbecile in the Semi's he wouldve been lifting that trophy for Pakistan on Indian soil...as a cricketing nation we dont have too many things we look back on and celebrate but there are a few with Afridi in em! I mean if you think about it, its been 4 years since he has retired from ODI's and we still cant find a replacement for him, says it all.
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:yk savage post esp the UFC line :)))
 
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Don't disagree with the headline of this thread. Biggest revelation for me was when Afridi got to know something was up with Butt, Mazhar Majeed, Asif and Amir. He told the manager and coach who did nothing. Rather than taking it higher up the ladder or engaging the board he just ran away. That for me was weakness of character. As captain and one of the most senior players in the side he had a greater responsibility that he clearly failed to realize.
 
I agree with Farhat...Afridi was selfish.
He always played for himself, never for country.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Don't disagree with the headline of this thread. Biggest revelation for me was when Afridi got to know something was up with Butt, Mazhar Majeed, Asif and Amir. He told the manager and coach who did nothing. Rather than taking it higher up the ladder or engaging the board he just ran away. That for me was weakness of character. As captain and one of the most senior players in the side he had a greater responsibility that he clearly failed to realize.
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Not just weakness of character but also cowardice. But then again this is Afridi we are talking about: the man's whose "natural game" always came before playing according to the situation
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Don't disagree with the headline of this thread. Biggest revelation for me was when Afridi got to know something was up with Butt, Mazhar Majeed, Asif and Amir. He told the manager and coach who did nothing. Rather than taking it higher up the ladder or engaging the board he just ran away. That for me was weakness of character. As captain and one of the most senior players in the side he had a greater responsibility that he clearly failed to realize.
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That's why it amazes me that people talk of Afridi as a future politician or even PM when he has track record for quitting when the going gets tough.
 
Markhor said:
That's why it amazes me that people talk of Afridi as a future politician or even PM when he has track record for quitting when the going gets tough.
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That's absolutely laughable. Afridi as PM would be a bad joke that I hope never gets played on this country, which has already suffered enough from incompetent politicians/PMs.
 
With all due respect, but Afridi as a real politician is laughable. He will not last a minute in Pakistan's political arena.

On another note, Afridi might have been an underachiever but his services for Pakistan Cricket and the Commercialism he bought to the game cannot be denied. All Imran Farhat is known for is being the son in law of a chief selector
 
Savak said:
Even when he was fighting with Ilyas in 2011, Afridi mentioned that Imran Farhat was a good guy and didn't say anything negative about him.
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He didn't, Afridi said Farhat although a good guy, was shown nepotism by selectors/Illyas. He used it as ammunition, bringing Farhat into it when he wanted to make a point how he was unhappy about captaincy loss.

Probably wasn't nice to Farhat and I'm sure it probably didn't go down well with him, but also we have to consider whether Farhat himself thought that true or not. Most Pak fans do think he was in the side due to nepotism quite a lot, but on the other hand Farhat was arguably (think he probably was) the most performing opener in domestic, so to him made sense he was given many chances.

I think though Afridi only brought this up because he was upset about losing captaincy. Otherwise he didn't care too much. Same with when he was talking about disrespected seniors like YK. He was just bringing up stuff to try and strengthen his case, when really I think he was just upset about losing captaincy so suddenly, which was put down to "media outbursts". I think he should have brought up Farhat's case if it really bothered him before, but as I said don't think it was his main issue.
 
Titan24 said:
Malik, gifted? Even in his peak I dont think it could have been said about him. I suppose it depends on the definition of gifted maybe.
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Shobby is the most gifted Pakistani batsman of last 20 years.

He didn't fulfill his true potential obviously much like Yuvraj Singh.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Don't disagree with the headline of this thread. Biggest revelation for me was when Afridi got to know something was up with Butt, Mazhar Majeed, Asif and Amir. He told the manager and coach who did nothing. Rather than taking it higher up the ladder or engaging the board he just ran away. That for me was weakness of character. As captain and one of the most senior players in the side he had a greater responsibility that he clearly failed to realize.
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Isn't this a punishable thing with ICC? It should be.

Afridi comes across looking stupid with this issue, and with his age issue.

As Farhat says, what, you just decided to lie for 20+ years about your age? Come clean about that too.
 
which players career was ruined by Afridi..?? Afridi was dropped around 7 times from the squad and each he returned due to his replacement was even poor.. Even today Shadab or Imam not good as Afridi..
 
ads101 said:
He didn't, Afridi said Farhat although a good guy, was shown nepotism by selectors/Illyas. He used it as ammunition, bringing Farhat into it when he wanted to make a point how he was unhappy about captaincy loss.

Probably wasn't nice to Farhat and I'm sure it probably didn't go down well with him, but also we have to consider whether Farhat himself thought that true or not. Most Pak fans do think he was in the side due to nepotism quite a lot, but on the other hand Farhat was arguably (think he probably was) the most performing opener in domestic, so to him made sense he was given many chances.

I think though Afridi only brought this up because he was upset about losing captaincy. Otherwise he didn't care too much. Same with when he was talking about disrespected seniors like YK. He was just bringing up stuff to try and strengthen his case, when really I think he was just upset about losing captaincy so suddenly, which was put down to "media outbursts". I think he should have brought up Farhat's case if it really bothered him before, but as I said don't think it was his main issue.
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Actually if you read his book, he talks about that phase in 2011 and he was extremely hurt, let down that a lot of senior and junior players he had fought hard for betrayed him and did not stand up for him during his stand off with the then coach and PCB.
 
Farhat himself was not even a first class player. Heaven knows how he became an international.
 
I still can’t seem to work out which careers were ruined by Afridi?

I’m pretty sure he ended the careers of a few Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi spinners but not sure which Pakistani players he has screwed over?

If Farhat is referring to Salman Butt, then Farhat needs a serious check up.
 
Afridi knew that this 2010 tour will be a disaster. He knew he will get a lot of criticism in Pakistan as well as internationally on how brainless he is as a Test player and captain and he knew well that he will be surely sacked as a captain and dropped. So after losing the first Test he decided to run way and happily handed over the captaincy to Butt who he know was a crook and the main man at the center of all the match-fixing fiasco. And our patriotic champion didn't even bother reporting this issue to the ICC. WOW!

Afridi knew well that what he did by leaving the team was an act of cowardice. Now, he has concocted a story to save his reputation and glorify his character.
 
For the record:

Imran Farhat scored 2400 Test runs.

Shahid Afridi scored 1700 Test runs and took 48 Test wickets.

The irony is that the main career ruined by Shahid Afridi was Shahid Afridi’s.

He somehow achieved LESS as a Test cricketer than Imran Farhat!

But Afridi took 15 years to achieve precisely nothing.
 
Junaids said:
For the record:


But Afridi took 15 years to achieve precisely nothing.
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I realize you are talking about test cricket, but for the record;

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P.S:
1. We all know he played the most matches. But somehow.... this "precisely nothing" player did get selected for 518 matches for Pakistan team.

2. We all know a lot of his MOMs were against minnows. But the point is that other 10 players also played against the same minnows. How come other 10 players did not get those awards?
 
Junaids said:
For the record:

Imran Farhat scored 2400 Test runs.

Shahid Afridi scored 1700 Test runs and took 48 Test wickets.

The irony is that the main career ruined by Shahid Afridi was Shahid Afridi’s.

He somehow achieved LESS as a Test cricketer than Imran Farhat!

But Afridi took 15 years to achieve precisely nothing.
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Afridi played as an all rounder, Imran Farhat played as a specialist opening batsman. Hence given that perspective, just a gap of 700 runs between them is shocking. Combine that with Afridi's 48 test wickets. Definately a much better and utility player than Imran Farhat.
 
Rana said:
I still can’t seem to work out which careers were ruined by Afridi?

I’m pretty sure he ended the careers of a few Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi spinners but not sure which Pakistani players he has screwed over?

If Farhat is referring to Salman Butt, then Farhat needs a serious check up.
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Afridi did not play Imran Farhat at all in the T-20 and ODI series in 2010 against England. Imran Farhat got a chance in the T-20's against South Africa under Afridi's captaincy which he did not avail and Afridi did not select him again. It is pretty clear that Imran Farhat was unhappy at what happened to Salman Butt because with Butt's exit, Farhat no longer had a confirmed place in the team again. All the players who played under Afridi's captaincy are still playing for Pakistan therefore there is no merit in these claims.
 
Savak said:
Afridi played as an all rounder, Imran Farhat played as a specialist opening batsman. Hence given that perspective, just a gap of 700 runs between them is shocking. Combine that with Afridi's 48 test wickets. Definately a much better and utility player than Imran Farhat.
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Afridi took just 48 wickets in 27 Tests.

If he was a Test all-rounder he was one who barely performed at all.

Basically as Test players it’s fair to say that Shahid Afridi and Imran Farhat were equals.
 
Junaids said:
Afridi took just 48 wickets in 27 Tests.

If he was a Test all-rounder he was one who barely performed at all.

Basically as Test players it’s fair to say that Shahid Afridi and Imran Farhat were equals.
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Yes 48 more wickets than Mr Imran Farhat. One will have to compare their batting averages. Afridi has 5 test hundreds as well. Not sure how many test centuries Imran Farhat has. Imran Farhat should hang his head in shame if Afridi has a better average than him and if the gap between the amount of runs between the two is not that high.

His performance even if lacking is way better than Imran Farhat. They are certainly not equals. Had it not been for Mr Ilyas, Farhat would have been discarded way earlier.

Afridi has better stats than Salman Butt as well in test cricket.
 
Imran Farhat has confirmed to PakPassion that he will be retiring from cricket at the end of the current domestic season.
 
Saj said:
Imran Farhat has confirmed to PakPassion that he will be retiring from cricket at the end of the current domestic season.
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It's been a long career! Never good enough for international cricket but had very strong FC stats. That was his level and he did perfectly well there. Don't think anyone can cry too much nepotism against his name.
 
Shoaib Akhtar was also benched against India by Afridi in 2011 — Afridi asked Akhtar to feign an injury because he didn’t want to handle media pressure of dropping him straight up. Thus, the last international game was against New Zealand.
 
Thunderbolt14 said:
Shoaib Akhtar was also benched against India by Afridi in 2011 — Afridi asked Akhtar to feign an injury because he didn’t want to handle media pressure of dropping him straight up. Thus, the last international game was against New Zealand.
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but they are good friends right?

I think Shoaib blames this world cup episode on WY more than SA
 
Bigboii said:
but they are good friends right?

I think Shoaib blames this world cup episode on WY more than SA
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Tbh as an Akhtar fan, he was finished at that stage and he was no longer effective or reliable bowling his full quota of overs and at the death. He got hit for 15 sixes from 2010-2011 which was unimaginable in his prime, that should give you the insight into his decline
 
Savak said:
Yes 48 more wickets than Mr Imran Farhat. One will have to compare their batting averages. Afridi has 5 test hundreds as well. Not sure how many test centuries Imran Farhat has. Imran Farhat should hang his head in shame if Afridi has a better average than him and if the gap between the amount of runs between the two is not that high.

His performance even if lacking is way better than Imran Farhat. They are certainly not equals. Had it not been for Mr Ilyas, Farhat would have been discarded way earlier.

Afridi has better stats than Salman Butt as well in test cricket.
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Imran farhat was bordering on mediocrity
 
“Game Changer” is complete nonsense. One of the worst autobiographies I have had the misfortune of reading.

Calling it a high fantasy novel would be more accurate.

Even in his book, he cannot decide how old he is.

This book was also going to be a disaster once Afridi decided to collaborate with Wajahat S. Khan.
 
Well he is kinda right Not a fan of farhat but afridi isnt some great player or leader as hes now made out to be

Afridi was always selfish When on the field It was always about him and not the team He also played hundreds of games more than he deserved
 
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