The former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir has given a fitting reply to Shahid Afridi, Pakistan all-rounder for his comments in the autobiography “Game Changer”. Afridi said Gambhir has an “attitude problem” and he has “no personality” as well. He further said that Gambhir “has no records just a lot of attitude”. However, Gambhir took to Twitter and hit back at Shahid Afridi, saying, “we are still granting visas to Pakistanis for medical tourism. I will personally take you to a psychiatrist.”
@SAfridiOfficial you are a hilarious man!!! Anyway, we are still granting visas to Pakistanis for medical tourism. I will personally take you to a psychiatrist.
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) May 4, 2019
“Some rivalries were personal, some professional. First the curious case of Gambhir. Oh poor Gautam. He and his attitude problem,” Afridi wrote in his book. “He (Gautam) who has no personality. He who is barely a character in the great scheme of cricket. He who has no great records just a lot of attitude.”
“In Karachi we call guys like him saryal (burnt up). Its simple, I like happy, positive people. Doesn’t matter if they are aggressive or competitive, but you have to be positive and Gambhir wasn’t,” he further added.
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Gambhir and Afridi have old enmity on the field since long. In 2007, both of them were booked for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct because they had a clash in Kanpur during an ODI match between India vs Pakistan.
While talking about the incident, Afridi said, “I remember the run-in with Gambhir during the 2007 Asia Cup, when he completed his single while running straight into me. The umpires had to finish it off or I would have. Clearly we had a frank bilateral discussion about each other’s female relatives.”
Meanwhile, Paddy Upton, the former mental conditioning coach recently said referred Gambhir as the negative person in his book ‘The Barefoot Coach’.
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“mentally the most insecure, negative and pessimistic,” Upton wrote in his book. “I did some of my best and least effective mental conditioning work with Gautam Gambhir, the International Test Cricketer of the Year’ in 2009. I worked with him up until that time but I had little to do with him being named world’s best cricketer,” Upton further added.
However, Gambhir replied that “no sinful intention in Upton’s views as he is a nice man and in any case his insecurities are well documented”.
