Recently Former India bowler Irfan Pathan sat down for an interview with Sports Tak. During the same, he recalled how the captain and selectors did not give him the right kind of backing. Irfan also talked about being dropped from the team after the 2012-13 cricket season.

Irfan said,  “I feel like if an opener is asked to bat at No. 7 then there will be a difference in his number. Just take an example of Chris Gayle. He if bats at No. 7 then he will not get to bat in 3-4 matches, he will get out early on in some matches and in others. He will get a chance to bat only for 5-6 overs.”

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“So now it is the captain’s role to back him because you had only changed his role. So I think, I did not get the backing there. I had Man-of-the-Match in my last ODI, last T20I. People who say, I wasn’t getting the swing need to know that I was bowling first change. So the role was changed.  So, some players are backed, some are not, some are fortunate and I was among the unfortunate ones.”

Irfan Pathan also recalls his conversation with MS Dhoni about his bowling performance against Australia in 2008.

“I had talked to Mahi about it. I also talked to him about the statement he made about me during the 2008 Australia series that Irfan wasn’t bowling well. So I asked him that I was bowling well in the whole series, so I asked him for clarification and what could I do to get better.”

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“I remember getting dropped after winning the game in Sri Lanka in 2008, who gets dropped after winning the game for the country. Which match-winner is made to sit outside, but I did,” he mentioned.