Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Kamran Akmal has lastly opened up about his on-field spat with Ishant Sharma throughout an India-Pakistan match on the Chinnaswamy Stadium in December 2012. Akmal claimed that it was Ishant who initially began abusing him and, because of this, he received it again. He then went on to disclose that it was Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni who got here in to settle the matter. As quoted by cricket pundit Farid Khan, Akmal stated: “Ishant Sharma did hurl abuse, he got all the abuses back too (Ishant ne gaali diya par baad mein usko bhi bohot pada). MS Dhoni was really nice and Suresh Raina came and settled it down. India were losing and it happened in the heat of the moment. Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez performed very nicely, so he was livid.”

This shouldn’t be the one incident the previous Pakistani batter has shared just lately. During his interplay on the YouTube channel ‘Nadir Ali Podcast’, he was requested to recall an analogous incident. In 2009 Akmal and Gautam Gambhir had been caught in an on-field verbal feud.

“It was a complete misunderstanding. It was an Asia Cup match in 2009. Saeed Ajmal bowled, there was an appeal for caught-behind from me. It was given not out. Gambhir said something in a hilarious way, but because of the hype around the India-Pakistan matches…he did not say any cuss words. If I am not wrong, he said that to himself, but I felt it was directed towards me,” he stated.

Akmal later clarified that it was resulting from a misunderstanding. If it wasn’t for Dhoni and the intervention of the on-field umpires a single misunderstanding would have actually made issues go unhealthy from worse. India and Pakistan share a protracted historical past of on-field fights and these two moments are among the most memorable moments.

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