Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has put forth an interesting idea of organising a charity match in which a team ⛎comprising 11 retired legends will be taking on♐ the current national team led by none other than Virat Kohli.
Pathan suggested that this game, apart🎃 from serving as the farewell game for the cricketers, will also 🔥be used to raise funds for a good cause.
The demand f♕or the farewell match has skyrocketed since MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina bid farewell to international cricket on August 15.
“Many people are talking about a farewell game for retired players who didn’t get a proper send-off from the game. How about a charity cum farewell game from a team consisting of retired players vs the current Indian team?” Pathan tweeted.
The Baroda-born has come up with an exciting line-u🍃p which consists of the likes of Vir🅺ender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and Pathan himself.
Many people are talking about a farewell game for retired players who didn't get a proper send-off from the game. How about a charity cum farewell game from a team consisting of retired players vs the current Indian team?
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Recently, there has been a lot of furore in the cricketing fandom over how some of the most celebrated players announce꧑d their retirement in obscurity, without any pomp and fanfare.
Yuvraj, the former Indian all-rounder, too echoed the same sentiment in the past as he expressed his displeasure on how BCCI handled him and some of his colleagues like Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh an🔯d VVS Laxman.
“I just felt that the way they managed me towards the end of my career was very unprofessional. But looking back at a couple of great players like Harbhajan, Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, also very badly mismanaged. So it is part of Indian cricket, I had seen it in the past and I was not really surprised,” Yuvraj had said.
