Shane Watson, Harbhajan Singh poke fun at Yuvraj Singh’s age, compare him to Shahid Afridi

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If there’s one factor that has made Shahid Afridi the butt of all jokes throughout his career, it has been his age that no one wants to believe.

Since his debut to his retirement, from cricketers to commoners, no one has spared a chance to take a dig at Afridi’s age with the newest entrants in the list being Harbhajan Singh and Shane Watson.

The Indian off-spinner has launched his own show — Bhajji Blast — and had Shane Watson and Yuvraj Singh as his guests when the conversation shifted to Yuvraj’s debut match, which was around 18 years back against Kenya.

Although he didn’t bat, he sent down four overs in which he gave away 16 runs without a wicket. He got an opportunity to showcase his skills in the next game of the ICC KnockOut Trophy though, slamming 84 against Australia to help India win the tie by 20 runs.

During the interaction, Watson, who had a stellar run with Chennai Super Kings in the recently-concluded Indian Premier League, enquired how old was Yuvraj when he played his debut game.

On hearing it was 18, Watson joked, stating if the southpaw was referring to his ‘cricket age’ instead of his ‘birth age’.

It didn’t take long for Bhajji to join in as well and said: “Did you spend lot of time with Afridi?” to which Watson stated: “He (Afridi) has been 36 for about 7 years. That’s a great effort.”

Watson recalled how he has seen Yuvraj in the cricketing circuit for a number of years now. “I have played against Yuvraj in under-19 World Cup. He scored 50 odd runs off 20 balls. A year later, he played Champions Trophy in Kenya. He was so dominating,” he added, to which Bhajji quipped: “He (Yuvraj) is also like Afridi.”

Although Watson had slammed a century in the IPL final against Sunrisers Hyderabad to help the yellow brigade lift the title for a third time, Harbhajan had missed the game after he was dropped from the side.

[Garuda]

Is UV older than his stated age. He is never the same since rehabilitation after cancer. Its a great achievement that he has overcome that.

[Khota]

I am not a big fan of U19. Everything in India is not that straightforward.

[Khota]

@Bilal

@Ellipsism

@Lala

@Lala2790

 

For sake of transparency I bet this thread has made to green forum but not the other.

Kindly do not tell the mods here what thread to keep on or not. 

[Lala]

45 minutes ago, Khota said:

@Bilal

@Ellipsism

@Lala

@Lala2790

 

For sake of transparency I bet this thread has made to green forum but not the other.

Kindly do not tell the mods here what thread to keep on or not. 

I dont know why they missed sachin who came to international cricket in 16 same like afridi. 

[Khota]

5 minutes ago, Lala said:

I dont know why they missed sachin who came to international cricket in 16 same like afridi. 

Mumbai has a better age record than remote parts of India. It is hard to do in big cities. And yet you still dont get it.

[sandeep]

9 minutes ago, Lala said:

I dont know why they missed sachin who came to international cricket in 16 same like afridi. 

Because you don't talk about donkeys and racehorses in the same breath.

[Lala]

2 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Because you don't talk about donkeys and racehorses in the same breath.

How fair donkeys and racehorses came to cricket at same age and not mentioning each.  racehorses are chasing behind personal records and making fans donkeys  on the other hand donkeys hard working to bring their team to victory. 

[Lala]

10 minutes ago, Khota said:

Mumbai has a better age record than remote parts of India. It is hard to do in big cities. And yet you still dont get it.

Are you from Mumbai? 

[sandeep]

18 minutes ago, Lala said:

How fair donkeys and racehorses came to cricket at same age and not mentioning each.  racehorses are chasing behind personal records and making fans donkeys  on the other hand donkeys hard working to bring their team to victory. 

Racehorses top score in world cups and lead their teams to victory.  Donkeys can only stare angrily at their team-mates and throw their wickets away in typical donkey fashion after hitting an odd boundary.  

 

Even Afridi himself would be ashamed to put himself in the same sentence as Tendulkar - forget about the level of player.  

 

I can understand that the blunt words might be provocative to you, a clear fanboi for "Lala".  But comparing Afridi to Tendulkar is even worse than comparing an Ajit Agarkar to a Wasim Akram.  At least Agarkar won a match with the ball for India in Australia, and has scored a century at Lords.  

[nikred]

I dont know why they missed sachin who came to international cricket in 16 same like afridi. 

Sachin looks his age. Afridi clearly does not.

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[MCcricket]

9 hours ago, nikred said:

Sachin looks his age. Afridi clearly does not.

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Afridi and Kambli are both couple years older, growing up in Bombay and knowing people is school cricket circles, this is common knowledge