When the name of Irfan Pathan comes up, one of the most vivid memories about the former all-rounder is when he rattled the Pakistani top-order with a hat-trick in the first over of the Karachi Test during the 2006 tour. However, the same tour has been a memorable one for Irfan, not only for his brilliant spells with the ball, but the verbal encounters with star Pakistan player Shahid Afridi.
While the tour was ongoing, both the teams were travelling in the same flight from Karachi to Lahore. An in-flight verbal spat with between the top all-rounders of the arch-rivals meant that the journey to Lahore was going to be filled with heated moments. However, Irfan tackled the awkward situation thrown at him by Afridi. During a recent conversation, the Baroda-born revealed how the incident unfolded.
A few time later, Irfan said that he went up to Abdul Razzaq, another all-rounder from Pakistan and part of the squad on that tour. Irfan asked the kinds of meat available in the city, to which Razzaq replied courteously. The Indian cricketer then took that conversation to a whole different turn, taking a hilarious dig at how Afridi was behaving inside the plane.