10 Dressing room secrets in cricket history

6. Shoaib Akhtar hitting Mohammad Asif with a bat at 2007 World T20

No list of dressing room secrets can get complete without featuring Pakistan cricket and even in this instance here is a controversy that had omitted the speedster, Shoaib Akhtar, from participating in the inaugural edition of the 2007 World T20.

As per Shoaib Akhtar’s autobiography “Controversially Yours”, the incident had shaped up because of Shahid Afridi’s aggravation wherein Shoaib had swung his bat at both of them. While hitting them although Afraid had ducked himself, Mohammad Asif on the other hand was unable to get out of the way which eventually made him get hit on his thighs.

Now while the trio was initially joking around, in one of the jokes Asif had sided with Afridi that apparently had enraged Shoaib Akhtar to lose his cool. In the end, while Akhtar’s book does highlight Shahid Afridi’s aggravation, the all-rounder had once precisely denied regarding him aggravating anything.