Pakistan cricket hit headlines for all of the incorrect causes in 2007 when a spat broke out between senior quick bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif contained in the group dressing room in South Africa. Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Akhtar have all the time maintained an excellent relationship on and off the sector (AFP Photo)HIGHLIGHTSShoaib Akhtar hit Mohammad Asif with a bat in 2007, injuring the latter’s legShoaib Akhtar was despatched residence from South Africa earlier than the inaugural T20 World Cup because of the incidentAkhtar had blamed Shahid Afridi for aggravating the state of affairs which led to the battle contained in the dressin roomFormer Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi let the rabbit out of the hat in a current interview when he opened up on the controversial incident between teammates Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif within the Pakistan dressing room in 2007.Pakistan cricket hit headlines for all of the incorrect causes in 2007 when a spat broke out between two senior quick bowlers within the squad. Just earlier than the inaugural T20 World Cup in South Africa, Akhtar and fellow quick bowler Asif had been concerned in a dressing room battle which resulted within the latter injuring his leg.Shoaib later blamed all-rounder Shahid Afridi for the spat that led to him hitting Asif with a bat throughout Pakistan’s build-up to the WT20 in South Africa. As a consequence, Shoaib was thrown out of the squad and he later apologised to Asif after returning to Pakistan.Afridi although, denied any involvement within the incident regardless that Shoaib accused the previous Pakistan captain of instigating him through the incident.“Things happen within the team when you’re with each other more than you’re with your families. There are some people who can take a joke and some people who can’t. I did not have a hand in the incident, I only went in to save the situation when I saw Shoaib angry,” Afridi stated on a video interview with Samaa.“Asif had sided with me in a joke which enraged Shoaib and all this happened. But Shoaib has a very beautiful heart, despite all the show of aggression he does. It’s natural for a fast bowler,” Afridi added.Akhtar had touched upon this controversy in his autobiography, Controversially Yours, the place he revealed how Afridi aggravated the state of affairs.“Afridi was aggravating the situation and I swung the bat at both of them. Afridi ducked, but Asif couldn’t get out of the way, the bat struck him on his thighs and he collapsed. I had lost it. I had never behaved like this, especially in the dressing room,” Akhtar wrote.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.