‘He was compelled’: Pak cricketer Shoaib Akhtar casts aspersions on Virat Kohli giving up captaincy

Former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar on Saturday forged aspersions on Virat Kohli giving up his captaincy earlier this month. In a dialog with information company ANI, Akhtar claimed that Kohli didn’t relinquish his captaincy however was ‘forced to do so’.
#WATCH | Virat Kohli didn’t relinquish the captaincy himself. He was compelled to take action… He is a superb cricketer. I believe he’s going to return out of this: Former Pakistan quick bowler Shoaib Akhtar in Muscat, Oman pic.twitter.com/jbXU5My2bj— ANI (@ANI) January 23, 2022
“Chhodi nahin, chhudwai gayi hai… aise hi hai na? (He hasn’t left, he was made to leave, isn’t it so?)” he mentioned. In an interview with Aaj Tak, Akhtar claimed that there’s a foyer in opposition to Kohli. Many pro-Congress ‘liberals’ have additionally forged related aspersions on Kohli’s leaving captaincy.
Has Virat Kohli paid the value for talking up in opposition to hate? Did he soar or was he pushed?— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) January 15, 2022
Virat is at the moment the ‘favourite’ of the ‘liberals’ in India for having spoken up in opposition to Diwali firecrackers and plenty of had claimed that he’s dealing with the ‘wrath’ for standing up for Mohammad Shami when he was trolled by Pakistanis after the T20 World Cup loss in opposition to Pakistan. It was very apparent that the Pakistanis had peddled the ‘Shami abused for being a Muslim’ narrative and ‘liberals’ amplified it. Along with Kohli, different cricketers had additionally prolonged solidarity with Shami. Except, everybody then simply assumed that Kohli’s captaincy controversy in previous few months is due to his ‘standing up for Shami’.
Akhtar is at the moment in Muscat, Oman, enjoying the Legends Cricket League the place he’s representing Asian Lions. In one other media interplay after the primary match, Akhtar expressed his need to punch Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif, who was representing Indian Maharajas on the event.
On Thursday, Kaif stored strolling out of the crease to Akhtar through the match which triggered Akhtar. He jokingly mentioned that he’d prefer to punch Kaif. “Mohammad Kaif was walking towards me again. I just feel like punching him. Because I have told him many times in the past ‘do not walk at me’, But he did that again,” he had mentioned.