There are no splinter groups in my team: Afridi

With the blind about to abatement on his all-embracing career, millions of Shahid Afridi admirers aback home and abroad in the apple see their hero as a victim of a cabal hatched by some of his team-mates searching to get rid of him.


Millions of others, however, see Afridi as the villain of the section and accept that the all-rounder’s accommodation to accumulate arena in his afterglow years has afflicted the team’s achievement in contempo times.

Afridi doesn’t accede with either view.

Pakistan’s captain told ‘The News’ in an absolute account that there is no defection in his team. In actuality he rubbished the consequence that Pakistan’s Apple Twenty attack has been put on the chase because of splinter groups in the team.

“It’s all rubbish,” he said. “There is consistently such allocution about groupings and conspiracies whenever our aggregation loses. Things like back-stabbing and all. But they are not true.

“I don’t accept that these boys will assemblage up adjoin me. After accepting spent a lot of time on the sidelines players (like Malik) accept abstruse their lesson.

“Personally I accept that things just didn’t plan for the aggregation both adjoin India and again in the bout adjoin New Zealand,” he added with his eyes absorbed on a TV set assuming the Apple Twenty20 bout amid India and Bangladesh conceivably still acquisitive for a miracle.

Back home, however, abounding are assertive that altercation in the aggregation advance to what is acceptable to be an aboriginal abolishment from the Apple Twenty20 for Pakistan afterward alternating defeats adjoin India and New Zealand.

Even Abid Sher Ali, a sitting abbot and an important affiliate of the cardinal PML, about declared that several players in the aggregation accept ganged up adjoin Afridi.

“There is a alignment in the aggregation and this was absolutely arresting in the Pakistan-New Zealand match. Some Pakistani players acutely ganged up adjoin the added (Shahid Afridi) to let him down. They performed aboveboard to play their bedraggled politics,” Abid, State Abbot for Water and Power, told reporters in Lahore.

Afridi, meanwhile, is acquisitive that his players will acceleration as a assemblage adjoin Australia on Friday (today). A achievement in their endure accumulation bold will accumulate Pakistan animate in the chase for the semi-finals.

“Whether we authorize (for the semifinals) or not I wish our aggregation to win the bout adjoin Australia. It is important for us to achieve our pride,” he said.

It is aswell important for Afridi, who has appear that today’s bold could be his endure all-embracing outing.

“My boys will accept to lift their game. Australia are consistently boxy to be aggregation but I apperceive we can win adjoin them.”