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    "excerpt": "New Delhi, July 6:\u00a0\u00a0Former India opener Aakash Chopra responded to former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi's comments that they defeated their arch-rivals so many times that the Indian players ask",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>New Delhi, July 6:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Former India opener Aakash Chopra responded to former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi&#39;s comments that they defeated their arch-rivals so many times that the Indian players asked for forgiveness at the end of matches.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I have always enjoyed India. We&#39;ve beaten them pretty comprehensively quite a few times. I believe we&#39;ve beaten them so much that they used to ask us for forgiveness after the match,&quot; Afridi had said on the Cric Cast show on YouTube.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Chopra took note of these remarks from Afridi and stated Pakistan were indeed a better side when they had stalwarts like Imran Khan and Wasim Akram in their ranks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;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&#39;t the Afridi time that he was talking about,&quot; Chopra said in his show AakashVani in the video uploaded on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;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.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Chopra then put forward some statistics to negate Afridi&#39;s claims that his Pakistan team beat India a lot of times. The cricketer-turned-commentator shared India-Pakistan stats after Afridi&#39;s debut and it seemed to paint a different picture altogether.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;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,&quot; Chopra said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;But when you talk about T20I, the format in which you were really good, India lead the head-to-head record 7-1. Isn&#39;t the story told backwards? Maybe, he (Afridi) wanted to say something else, and he said something else. I am really surprised.&quot;<\/p>\r\n",
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