Afridi apologises for ball biting
February 1, 2010 |11:26 | Sports By : Team X
“I want to say sorry to the whole nation for what I did today,î said Pakistan’s stand-in captain after he led his team to a two-wicket defeat against Australia in their final One-day International in Perth, where the hosts completed a 5-0 clean sweep of the ODI series.
“I’m really embarrassed over the whole incident. I don’t know why it happened but it did and I’m sorry,” stressed the senior allrounder, who has been tipped to take over as Pakistanís long-term captain.
But what happened in Perth on Sunday could jeopardise his possible future as Pakistan’s next captain.
“I was just trying to help us win our first match (on this tour),” Afridi said, adding “I still believe that we are a talented team and just need a win to lift ourselves.”
Afridi, 29, has not only admitted that he was involved in ball-tampering but might have also landed himself in deeper trouble by claiming that all international teams are involved in ball-tampering.
“All teams do it (ball-tampering). It’s just that I did it in a different way and was caught,” he said. Afridi, who is Pakistan’s Twenty20 skipper, will miss his team’s tour-ending Twenty20 International against Australia at the MCG on February 5.
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