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Gautam Gambhir vs Shahid Afridi: The 2007 India-Pakistan On-Field Clash

Gautam Gambhir

The most talked about controversy during the clash between India and Pakistan on the cricket field has been that of Gautam Gambhir vs Shahid Afridi. The fight between Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi had become the talk of the town in the year 2007.

Whenever there is a match between India and Pakistan on the cricket field, the eyes of the whole world are fixed on this match. For the last many years, these two teams have been able to clash only in ICC tournaments.

But earlier, these two teams used to play series against each other. Where many times the players of both the teams used to clash with each other. Especially the whole world remembers the fight that happened on the field between Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi in 2007.

Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi abused each other in the India and Pakistan match

Shahid Afridi

In the year 2007, when the Pakistan team came on a tour to India, the third match of the 5 ODI match series was played at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur in which Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi abused each other a lot.

The whole world still remembers this big debate. Actually, Gambhir was running for a single on Shahid’s ball. Then both of them collided and Gambhir felt that Afridi did this intentionally. After that both of them started arguing. Meanwhile both the players clashed with each other.

Gautam Gambhir has also had a dispute with Kamran Akmal

Kamran Akmal

Not only this, Pakistan’s wicketkeeper batsman Kamran Akmal also clashed with Gambhir once. There was a heated argument between these two players on the field.

During the 2010 Asia Cup, Pakistani wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal was batting and was disturbing Gautam Gambhir by appealing against him unnecessarily. Then there was a heated argument between Gambhir and Akmal. Finally Dhoni had to intervene.

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