Shahid Afridi on Gautam Gambhir: He has no personality or records, just a lot of attitude

The rivalry of Shahid Afridi and Gautam Gambhir is quite popular in the cricket field and the way once Gautam Gambhir came to hit Afridi is a memorable moment in the cricketing history of India and Pakistan. However, now the cricketer Shahid Afridi has released his autobiography 'Game Changer' in which he has said that Gautam Gambhir lacked personality and has attitude problem.

Shahid Afridi in his autobiography wrote, “Some rivalries were personal, some professional. First the curious case of Gambhir. Oh poor Gautam. He and his attitude problem. He who has no personality. He who is barely a character in the great scheme of cricket. He who has no great records just a lot of attitude.”

Afridi even said that Gambhir acts like he was a like Don Bradman and James Bond. “In Karachi we call guys like him saryal (burnt up). Its simple, I like happy, positive people. Doesn’t matter if they are aggressive or competitive, but you have to be positive and Gambhir wasn’t,” Afridi wrote in his autobiography.

For those who don't know let us tell you that when India and Pakistan were playing in Kanpur they had a verbal fight. Both Afridi and Gambhir were booked for breaching the ICC code of conduct.

Afridi talks about the incident in his book “I remember the run-in with Gambhir during the 2007 Asia Cup, when he completed his single while running straight into me. The umpires had to finish it off or I would have. Clearly we had a frank bilateral discussion about each other’s female relatives.”

On the other hand, Gautam Gambhir has joined politics and now contesting general elections for BJP in East Delhi. He has not responded to Afridi's statement on the whole issue yet.

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