While Virat Kohli and co were jeered at for laughing during the presentation ceremony of the Champions Trophy, Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik revealed the real reason behind the light moment.
Talking at a show named Voice of cricket, Shoaib recollected an incident from 2008 when he and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal had got into a mix-up while taking a catch against the West Indies in an ODI.
Shoaib revealed that he along with Indian skipper Kohli and Yuvraj Singh were having a laugh at while talking about this fact.
“We were playing the Champions Trophy final against India. Post the final, in the prize distribution, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Azhar (bowling coach Azhar Mahmood) and myself were laughing. We all were discussing the same catch and laughing”, he said.
Kohli had asked him about that catch and they burst out laughing.
“That catch was Chris Gayle’s. I asked Ajmal ‘if you had positioned yourself to take the catch, why did you pull out at the last moment’? He told me that he waited crouched on the ground to take the catch just in case you (Shoaib Malik) drop it,” added the 36-year old.
Pakistan’s opener Fakhar Zaman had scored a hundred as India had lost the match to Pakistan by 180 runs, thereby conceding the Champions Trophy–a title they had won in 2013.
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