When Shoaib Akhtar threatened Brett Lee

Cricket enthusiasts who grew up in the 90s will fondly recall the iconic Shoaib Akhtar-Brett Lee game. Whenever Pakistan played against Australia, millions of fans around the world would put the two against each other.

On the one hand, both hit the ball at lightning speed and intimidate batters around the world. Although Shoaib Akhtar has hurt many batsmen (Gary Kirsten, Saurav Ganguly, and Brian Lara) in his brilliant career with his fiery fast bowling, but whenever we talk about Akhtar’s fear of entering the batsman’s heart, Think of a specific video.

A few years ago, Brett Lee appeared in an episode of the famous TV show hosted by comedian Kapil Sharma.Li fondly recalled his face Rawalpindi Express Once, Pakistan and Australia were fighting each other.

Lee just went out to hit the ball, on a very fast and resilient Australian court, and Shoaib Akhtar couldn’t wait to go.

“I have played against Pakistan and Shoaib Akhtar,” Lee can be heard saying in the video clip. The crowd was amused and responded.

“And me and him [Shoaib Akhtar] Get along well. My nickname is’Binga’,” Li said.

The former Australian Pacer talked about his nervousness when he went out to play against the Pakistan team, with sweaty hands.

“I was sweating and nervous, I heard’Binga, Binga’. And Shoaib was just 75 meters away. He looked at me and he wanted to say,’I’m going to kill you,” Lee said with a laugh from the audience.

Lee said that Akhtar’s bowl hit him in the foot.

“I appealed to the referee,’how?’ That must have come out,” he joked, and the attendees laughed again.

Li lamented how the “stupid Australian referee” kept him out, which meant that he had to face Akhtar again.

This viral video clip really caught the attention of Shoaib Akhtar, who praised his former Australian counterpart on Twitter and said that Lee was also terrifying during his cricket days.

“To be honest, Binga was very humble there. For the batsmen of that era, @BrettLee_58 himself was pretty scary on the court,” he wrote on Twitter.