Shahid Afridi might have given a lot of wickets to Pakistan and at the same time, he has given his to other teams as well. Here is one such moment when he got out in Australia courtesy to a very controversial decision by the third umpire.
Afridi came into bat and as Pakistan was chasing a stiff total and with six wickets down Afridi was the only hope for Pakistan. Afridi started his innings with a big six over long off. The intentions from him were pretty clear.
He was right on the money on this hit. Hodge gave Afridi a floated leg spinner and Afridi just hit it as straight as possible. It was a clean hit that came from the middle of his bat. the fielder could only watch it going over his head.
The next boundary was on the leg side from Afridi. This time, he swept the ball on the leg side against Lehman and collected four runs. Afridi third major hit was another six and the time he went down the track and hit Hodge over long on.
But after all, this he got run out. Afridi placed the ball down to deep third man and went for a double. Lee picked up the ball and immediately threw it back to the wicketkeeper Gilchrist. Afridi was sliding his bat and Gilchrist hit the wickets with his hands.
Now it was a close call. The replays showed that Afridi was just in by a frame and hence it made a very dubious case. Now here the benefit of the doubt should have been given to Afridi but it was denied and Afridi was given out which was pretty much irrational from the third umpire.
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