Shahid Afridi doesn’t know the full form of LBW

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi might have scored tons of runs and picked up hundreds of wickets but as it appears the allrounder doesn’t know the full form of ‘lbw’. He appeared on a Television show on a popular Pakistani channel and during an activity when the host used the term ‘leg before wicket’ Afridi said he had never heard of this cricketing term before and that the host was making it up.

Afridi had headphones on with music playing on it while the anchor of the show had the role of explaining or describing in action the word assigned. He did a good job to make him understand the first word leg by pointing out at his legs and the leg-spinner guessed the next word before but the last word proved a bit too difficult for him to pick.

While any cricket fan would’ve spontaneously said ‘leg before wicket’ as soon as they say the first word together but Afridi certainly couldn’t. Eventually, he ran out of time and pulled his headphones off and the host told him that the word he was trying to make him guess was leg before wicket. The former cricketer in his response said ‘you are explaining an incorrect word how do you expect me to guess it.’

He also added ‘this is the first time I am hearing this term “leg before wicket” being associated with cricket. It’s probably hit wicket that you are trying to say.’ The anchor tried to explain that leg before wicket was the full form of lbw but Afridi was not willing to accept it.

Interestingly in his international career where the leggie picked 540 wickets to his name and 97 of those are lbws. Though he doesn’t seem to know the full form of the abbreviation he definitely knew how to get batsmen out lbw!

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