In some cultures biting balls is frowned upon.
This is a serious offence, but it is hard to take seriously.
Mostly because he bit a ball.
He put the ball in his mouth.
And bit it.
At the end of the footage the world’s most athletic security guard watches a spectator tackle a Khalid Latif to the ground.
It was a close game too.
shame his dad is not a match referee, so he is fucked.
saw the video a few times…rana naved’s face says it all!
what a prick
I have laid a few dollars on the Paki’s doing all sorts of stupid stuff to lose games over the years, but I don’t think even Nostradamus could have predicted either of those events tonight. That was even worse than when Afridi tried to scuff up the pitch with his spikes a few years ago. Your poll on improving the IPL needs an Afridi event
He must be a regular on cwb and read abt the mag cover yday.. how cud he let it slip? Poor watson, how will he respond?
coinbox.
I am torn between laughing, crying, and wanting to bang Afridi’s head into something solid. There are also many things I would dearly love to ask him right now, but have done jrod’s readers the favour of not ranting in his comment space and sticking them in a blog post instead.
W.
T.
F.
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Bloody hilarious. All those sportsmen/ wannabe characters who think they have ‘personality’ ain’t got a ticket on Shahid. He eats cricket balls in public with about as straight a face as you can ask for. Crazy as a loon.
I want to live in a world where a grown man can put a ball in his mouth if he so chooses.
DC, you can put balls in your mouth, it is the biting that causes problems.
No-one’s denying you that right, DC, but I was led to believe that with balls of all kinds, biting is the absolute last thing you want to be doing.
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Sort of unrelated, OK, definitely unrelated. But a sin of this magnitude knows no bounds. Here’s Ian Chappell desecrating our Idol: http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/446349.html
Modi = Sehwag? Good God.
Yeah, we won; close match, 5-0, blah blah blah – but jesus, there was a rugby tackle and Afridi bit the freakin’ ball!! WTF??
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That was his Tyson ear biting moment, a man who had those who love his sport at his feet, and that same man could get so desperate.
Brilliant comedy from the loon. His motives reminded me of this episode of Father Ted…from 53 seconds…
Let’s not foget this is not the first case of Alfridi being a bad boy. In 2005 he was banned for pitch tampering in England. Does he not realise there are cameras everywhere? Stupid or a cheat …. hmmmmmm!!!!!
You guys have to watch (well listen) to this. ABC journalist questioning Afridi about the events that took place.
Four stops past Dagenham East.
I have to admit, as bizarre things go on a cricket field, that was was possibly the most bizarrest I have ever seen.
And funny….
It appears Afridi’s batting extends to his fielding and captaincy as well.
I should add that I hope the squeezer that tackled Latif gets a couple of years in the pokie for assault.
What a dick.
It was funnier until I remembered that he was captaining today, and then I was pissed, because he was doing well, and then he basically undermined it totally by being an idiot. As if Pakistan don’t have enough to deal with after a 5-0 series humiliation, now they have to deal with their regular captain being inept and the standin being certifiably insane. It’s possible to lose with a bit of grace, and he cost Pakistan that -what would basically have been their only saving grace – today.
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I feel he was making joke of umpires looking at the ball and playfully he bit the ball knowing all cameras watching.
He is just crazy. Not dependable item. Ipl team should avoid afridi even in IPL 5.
if he is not playing cricket he is ideal suicide bomber. :D
if you extend his behaviour he might have even choked bob woolmer for saying bad about muhammed…he is a lunatic.
Afridi just loves having balls in his mouth. Imagine all the spit on that ball, eeew. Definately the least fun way to share body fluids…
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Match referee to Afridi:
Shahid, you might be captain cool
But biting a ball’s the work of a fool
With those cameras around
Evidence abounds
And you come off looking like a tool.
Afridi to match referee:
But sir, biting the ball’s no sin
When you’ve given up hopes for a win
I looked to make merry
Sinking my teeth in the cherry
So my team mates could finally grin.
That’s the first edition of cricmericks. (Getit? Cricket limericks).
‘I was just trying to sniff the ball’. Hmm. At least he fessed up later on. Typical Afridi – on a day where he was bowling and captaining so well, he self-destructs.
I was at the game, and earlier in the day, near the players pavilion, I was next to about 6 of the fattest security guards I’ve ever seen – I remember thinking at the time that I like to see them try to chase somebody who jumped the fence. The guy in the video was one of their fitter guards.
Hopefully the security contract at the WACA didn’t stipulate that they had to feed the security staff – otherwise they’d make a loss for the day.
Oh, and if a copper or even a guest at the lockup is reading this, give that tosser who jumped the fence a working over for all of us, would you.
Sehwag sees the ball and hits the ball.
Afridi sees the ball and bites the ball.
Do not have any more words to say about it. Frankly, I am left speechless. In hindsight, the franchises must be very thankful of whatever external infuence (if there was such) which prevented them from bidding on him.
They’re putting the streaker up on assault charges so he’s a bit arsed.
Figures I end up going to the boring match and miss the close drama-filled match.
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For once the spectator decided to wear clothes and charge on the field. . and yea Shahid bit the ball !!!
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when god wanted the ball changed, he promptly hit it out of the ground. afridi figured he would lose it in his big mouth.
To get the batsman out somehow is the right idea, but he bit the wrong ball !
Those nice people over at Cricket Australia have again deemed it fit to deny the innocent pleasures of gentle folk. The video can’t be played because of a copyright claim from those lovely and seductive scoundrels. Personally, I don’t quite appreciate all the hooblah about putting a ball in the mouth, after all it’s Afridi and without such actions, his considerable standing may well be deprecated.
Omar, I have found a new version.
Afridi has proved again that he’s multitalented.It began with his pitch dance at faisalabad against England in 2005.He would surely had been a contender for the lead role of dirty dancing-II ,if they were to make one.He’s back again in the news with cherry biting.was he trying to prove that Pak is not a toothless side.
I dont believe in Afridi but I am very afraid of him
There is only one explanation. Afridi’s insane cricket powers come from a steady diet of shiny cricket balls. It’s his spinach, his magic potion, his gummiberry juice.
The man was captaining a ship of fools. He was stressed. He had a snack to calm his nerves.
Get off his case already.
You’d have done it too. If you COULD.
Dude leave the poor guy alone. He’s insane sometimes, I think he will do anything in a cricket game.
It was a ton of pressure, if you look at all Pakistani team has been through in past couple of months, especially with the PCB, IPL, and changing captaincy and melodrama against the cricketers,
you will realize that for someone who is already awesome & insane, like Afridi, such a crazy act was inevitable. He just caved in, I don’t know. But I will always support him because he is KING {and shares that title with a couple of Australians, Chris Gayle, and Sangakarra}!
sympathizer, I’ve hardly ripped into him. It is too funny to properly attack him.
Never acceptable from a internation professional player, why he did that? he himself put his country in trouble….shabby work afridi