Mohammad Asif sided with me on a joke which enraged Shoaib Akhtar: Shahid Afridi on 2007 dressing room fight

Pakistan cricket hit headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2007 when a spat broke out between senior fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif inside the team dressing room in South Africa.

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi let the rabbit out of the hat in a recent interview when he opened up on the controversial incident between teammates Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif in the Pakistan dressing room in 2007. Pakistan cricket hit headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2007 when a spat broke out between two senior fast bowlers in the squad. Just before the inaugural T20 World Cup in South Africa, Akhtar and fellow fast bowler Asif were involved in a dressing room fight which resulted in the latter injuring his leg. Shoaib later blamed all-rounder Shahid Afridi for the spat that led to him hitting Asif with a bat during Pakistan's build-up to the WT20 in South Africa. As a result, Shoaib was thrown out of the squad and he later apologised to Asif after returning to Pakistan.