Big news for fans before IPL 2025, now Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi will play for Virat Kohli’s team

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|12-09-2024

Virat Kohli: It is perhaps the wish of cricket fans of both these teams that players of India and Pakistan play together as a team. About two decades ago, there were many such matches and tournaments in which players of these two arch-rival teams, who are each other's sworn enemies while playing for their respective countries, were seen representing the same team together.

If we tell you that Team India's star batsmen Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Pakistan's star cricketers Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi can play for the same team, will you believe it? Actually, this will become possible as soon as Jay Shah takes over as ICC President.

Let's know the whole thing in detail.

Virat Kohli and Babar will play for the same team

Virat Kohli-Babar Azam

Virat Kohli and Babar Azam play for the same team, this would be the wish of many cricket lovers.

Actually, both these players are among the two best batsmen of modern day cricket. In such a situation, if they play together for the same team, then this sight will be very pleasant. If ICC wants, this can be possible. Actually, Afro Asia Cup was organized in 2005 and 2007.

In this, a match was played between Asia XI and Africa XI. Players from Team India and Pakistan were seen playing together in Asia XI. However, after the Mumbai attacks in 2008, due to deteriorating political relations between India and Pakistan, no bilateral series was played between these two teams.

Now discussions about this tournament have started again.

This veteran shared important information

Recently, the President of the African Cricket Association, Samod Damodar, has shared important information about the Afro Asia Cup. In fact, Forbes has quoted Damodar in a report that discussions are being held once again regarding the organization of this tournament. There is a possibility of Africa taking it forward. If there is an agreement between the ICC and BCCI, then the Afro Asia Cup can be organized for the third time in the year 2025.

However, we will have to wait for official information at the moment.

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