Was told to disturb Sachin, Jadeja, Sidhu: Ex-Pak cricketer makes big revelation on Mohammad Azharuddin

Across the world, there is hardly a rivalry that is as intense, emotional, and widely followed as the one between the Indian and Pakistani cricket team. There is nothing more the fanbases of the national teams of the two neighboring nations want than a victory over the other.

Over the last few decades, whenever two sides have met each other on the cricket field, there have been numerous memorable encounters.

Not only have the two teams produced some high quality matches, the clashes between these two sides have not been short of on-field drama either.

The two set of players have been scared of sledging each other. Ex-Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has made a sensational claim stating that the team management told the Men in Green players to try and disturb the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Ajay Jadeja, Navjot Singh Sidhu, and Vinod Kambli. He made a big revelation and stated that an exception was made for Mohammad Azharuddin. Basit claimed that there was a lot of respect for the former Indian skipper in the Pakistan dressing room.

“Before every India match, I was given the responsibility to sledge the Indian players. I was told to disturb Sachin (Tendulkar), Jadeja (Ajay), Sidhu (Navjot), Kambli (Vinod), but the moment Azhar bhai’s name used to come, the entire team unanimously said no one would disturb Azhar bhai. I don’t have words to describe the amount of respect we used to have for Azhar bhai in our dressing room," said Basit on his Youtube channel.

‘’Be it Wasim (Akram) bhai, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, Inzmam-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis, they would not dare to sledge Azhar bhai. I don’t think any Pakistan player ever insulted Azhar bhai.

“Azhar bhai used to bat at No 3 and when the likes of Ganguly and Dravid came up, he started batting low down the order and gave the youngsters his slot," he added.