India and Pakistan will meet for the first time since the Sindoor operation. Teams that include several veterans from both countries are about to face the World Championship in Legends, an exhibition tournament in the UK.
The match, which takes place on July 20 in Edgbaston, will see Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Rain and Irfan Pathan. The Indian vs Pakistani match will also have the presence of Shahid Afridi of the Pakistani side, which has made several controversial statements about India in the last past. Afrids have been criticized several times on social media for hatred against its neighboring nation.
The former Pakistani cricket, the Danish Kaleria, tore himself into Shahid Afrid because of his bizarre demands against India after the terrorist attack Pahalgam. April 28, Kaneria was criticized by Afrids for his incident statement, where the former captain claimed that India had made it easier for an attack and then accused Pakistan.
Shahid Afridi’s statement became viral on social media, where he made strange remarks on a terrorist attack that demanded 26 innocent lives.
“The terrorists continued killing people in Pahalgam for an hour and not a single Indian soldier out of 8 Lakhs. But when they did it, they blamed Pakistan,” Afrids told local reporters in Pakistan.
“India performs terrorism itself, kills its own people, and then blames Pakistan,” he said.
Former Captain of the cricket team of Pakistan continued to be guaranteed for the country and said that they always wanted peace with their neighbors.
“No country or religion supports terrorism. We always support peace. Islam teaches us only peace and Pakistan never supports such types of acts. We have always tried to improve our relations with India.”
“We got so many threats before traveling to India. I was a captain during the World Cup T20 2016 and I had no idea whether we were going or not. Sports diplomacy is also good.
India vs Pakistan after Sindoor surgery
This is not the first time that India and Pakistan participated in the consequences of Sindoor operations. The controversy broke out in the junior Davis Cup 24 May after India defeated Pakistan at the U16 tournament.
In the viral clip, the Pakistani player was seen to shake his hands in an unharmed way with an Indian player. After the loss of Pakistan in the tie, it seemed that the U16 player Pakistans was over to run over to the Indian junior star. Initially, he did not join in Handshake and repeated the action – this time made contact – just to suddenly shake the hand of the Indian player in a disrespectful gesture.
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Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
1 July 2025
