Not a match-fixer at least: Fahad Mustafa disses Danish Kaneria while defending Shahid Afridi

The former cricketer took a jibe at the Chief Selector of the national cricket team for no reason

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 😂😂😂 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 😊 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 😆 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.