WATCH: Aakash Chopra Reacts To Shahid Afridi's Jibe At Indian players

Shahid Afridi had said that Pakistan had defeated India so many times that the Indian players 'begged for forgiveness' at the end of matches.

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New Delhi: Pakistan cricket team's former star all-rounder Shahid Afridi had made a series of sensational remarks on the cricket rivalry between India and Pakistan. The lastest controversial statement of Afridi attracted the wrath of Indian cricket team fans all over the world. Afridi had said that Pakistan had defeated India so many times that the Indian players 'begged for forgiveness' at the end of matches. "I have always enjoyed India. We've beaten them pretty comprehensively quite a few times. I believe we've beaten them so much that they used to ask us for forgiveness after the match," Afridi had said on the Cric Cast show on YouTube. Reacting to Afridi's statement, Aakash Chopra said Pakistan was indeed a better side when they had stalwarts like Imran Khan and Wasim Akram in their ranks. "Pakistan had a very good team and there is no two ways about it. Now also they have a decent team but at one point Pakistan were a better side than India. But that wasn't the Afridi time that he was talking about," Chopra said in his show AakashVani in the video uploaded on his YouTube channel. "Pakistan team was filled with immensely talented players like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis and because of such players they did extremely well." The cricketer-turned-commentator then put forward some statistics to negate Afridi's claims that his Pakistan team beat India a lot of times. "If you look at the stats, we played 15 Tests, both the teams won five Tests each. In ODIs, they have won two more games than us. The stat is 41-39 in your favour in 82 games, so well done. But I doubt that anyone is going to ask for forgiveness for losing just two more games," Chopra said. "But when you talk about T20I, the format in which you were really good, India lead the head-to-head record 7-1. Isn't the story told backwards? Maybe, he (Afridi) wanted to say something else, and he said something else. I am really surprised."