Oh, it has been a tough couple of days for Pakistan cricket, especially when it comes to their athletes addressing their fans or expressing their emotions publicly.

Take former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi, for instance. The all-rounder who, after making his international debut way back in 1996, had spent the majority of his career amidst controversy and comments that did not fail to raise eyebrows. 

This is reality of secularism in Pakistan, TVs are broken for showing Hindu rituals & people applaud it pic.twitter.com/PXKcs5wcyf

â Amit Kumar Sindhi ð®ð³ (@AMIT_GUJJU) December 28, 2019

While his performance with the white ball certainly made him one of the better leg-spinners in limited overs cricket, it was his ballistic âall-inâ batting that eventually went on to diminish his value globally.

However, Afridi was well aware of this predicament and after retiring from international cricket in 2016, he became a lot more laid back in his approach towards talking about the game and himself.

While he continues to play franchise cricket, and is a part of the Multan Sultans in the ongoing season of Pakistan Super League, Afridi decided to address his fans during a press conference and used his reputation as the impatient batsman to troll himself: 

How can you not love this guy? ï¸ #PSLV2020 pic.twitter.com/UqDZGG8E9N

â Hassan (@iahassan9) February 22, 2020

âMain Zyada time nahi lena chahunga aapka, apni batting ki tarah,â he said, which translates into âI wonât be taking much of your time like I did when I batted.â

The self-trolling came just a couple of days after wicket keeper-batsman, Umar Akmal made his life difficult by posting a tweet without proof-reading it.

The 29-year-old cricketer took to Twitter and posted a picture along with former cricketer Abdul Razzaq and captioned it as, "Mother from another brother''.



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â Ibn Sina (@Ibne_Sena) February 19, 2020

In a tweet that has been deleted now, Akmal called former Pakistani all-rounder Abdul Razzak a âmother from another brotherâ, which converted into some really good meme material almost instantly.

Blood is in my cricket.
-Umar Akmal. pic.twitter.com/YFwAss17K1

â Memers production (@memes_walay) February 17, 2020

#UmarAkmalQuote

Best quotes from Sir Umar Akmal.

"Succeed, succeed and again succeed until you try" .

"Your health is injurious to smoking".

"Good happens for everything".

"Everything heals time". pic.twitter.com/bf7XKuwxMT

â Meme-Eater (@raksha_sa) February 20, 2020

To those who trolled umar akmal & made memes on him
Remember one thing you fools
"Forgive will never god you"#UmarAkmalQuotes

â KYO BILYAA (@Muzamelx) February 23, 2020

Meme Community Was Going Through Hard Times..
Meanwhile Umar Akmal- pic.twitter.com/gqkbvTyQIm

â Saharsh Tiwari ð®ð³ (@memer_chef) February 22, 2020

#UmarAkmal#UmarAkmalQuotes
Visit FB for more funny meme https://t.co/pQ9lDsscK0 pic.twitter.com/Xv0P6ZZmgT

â Shahid Shani (@shahid_for_you) February 20, 2020

The only difference between what Afridi and Akmal said was that Afridi knew that he was making fun of himself and gave everyone the open right to troll him for his comments, for Umar Akmal, not so much.

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