Former Indian all-rounder, Irfan Pathan recently revealed an incident during his second series against Pakistan, after making his debut in Australia in 2003-04. Javed Miandad, who was the head coach of Pakistan, during one of his press conferences said bowlers like Irfan are there in every street in Pakistan.
The southpaw fast bowler revealed that his father had read these comments and wanted to meet Miandad in person.
During a show on Star Sports, Pathan said, “I remember Javed Miandad saying something like bowlers like Pathan are there in every street of Pakistan. My father, I remember, reading that news, he didn’t like it at all. I remember in the last game as well, he came to Pakistan, he came to me and said ‘I want to go to the dressing room of Pakistan and meet Javed Miandad’ and I said ‘I don’t want you to go there’.”
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The Baroda-born also recalled Miandad’s meeting with his father, where the head coach denied having said anything wrong against the bowler.
Irfan recalled, “As soon as Miandad saw my father, he stood up and said, ‘no I didn’t say anything about your son’. My father had a smirk on his face and said, ‘I didn’t come here to say anything to you. I wanted to meet you as you were a wonderful player’.”
Amid the coronavirus lockdown, the Pathan brothers have been doing social work by providing relief material, like masks, to the people who need it. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients in India went past 14600 with almost 500 people losing their lives on Thursday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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The entire world is slowly moving towards a lockdown due to the scare of the ever-escalating situation concerning the World Health Organisation-recognized pandemic that is the Coronavirus. Everything- schools, colleges, airports, railway stations, gyms, sporting events, movies, offices- have been put under lockdown as the world continues to self-isolate in order to control the pandemic.
