Actor and host Fahad Mustafa is a true Shahid Afridi fan and won’t let anyone make fun of the former captain – even if it's a cricketer himself. So when former pacer Danish Kaneria dissed Afridi for being the Chief Selector of the national cricket team, the Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad actor didn’t hold back.
On Monday, Kaneria took a jibe at Afridi with a blurry zoomed-in image of him eating on the field in the national team’s shirt.
Chief selector đđđ pic.twitter.com/cdKokzJCyR
— Danish Kaneria (@DanishKaneria61) December 25, 2022
When Mustafa saw the former leg-spinner criticise Afridi for no reason, he ran to Afridi’s defense. “And he’s clearly not a match-fixer like you,” read his tweet.
And clearly not a Fixer like you đ https://t.co/yrbkRyOZFa
— Fahad Mustafa (@fahadmustafa26) December 25, 2022
While his support was lauded, many Twitter users brought a throwback picture and called out the Actor in Law star for never raising his voice against former bowler Muhammad Amir for the same.
Yeah, right đ pic.twitter.com/Pfgi7fXSjC
— Bhevish Kumar Maheshwari (@iambhevishk) December 26, 2022
In 2012, Kaneria was named in court as a go-between in a spot-fixing case involving former English county player Mervyn Westfield. A lifetime ban was imposed on him, which even after numerous appeals, was never revoked.
Bowler Westfield, 23, pleaded guilty at a hearing to being paid £6,000 to give away a set number of runs in the first over of a match between his Essex side and Durham in September 2009. The London court heard that Westfield’s Essex teammate Kaneria told him that a friend would pay him to cheat, Britain’s Press Association reported.
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