Lahore, Shahid Afridi is the leading cricketer and former Pakistani captain, who represented Pakistani in tests, ODIs and T20i matches. He announces to back the Pakistani cricket team in the coming 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which will be started from 01 June in UK. Afridi asked that the bowling attack of Pakistani cricket team is impressive and the bowlers are in good form and they can show their brilliant performance during the match between Pakistan vs India.
The fans of Pakistan and India have marked their calendars for 4 June as both arch rivals will come face to face with each other in this most wonderful match. Afridi said that he is also waiting for the India vs Pakistan match and he is expecting the rousing performances from Pakistan against its traditional rival.
He wrote for ICC website that we are now at the distance of one month from the great event between Pakistan v India and there are millions of the fans around the world, who are waiting for the start of the match anxiously. He said that ICC Champions Trophy is the only event, in which Pakistan grabbed many successes against India and Pakistan won the match against India at Edgbaston in 2004 and in 2009 match at Centurion.
Afridi himself played 398 ODIs in which he showed tremendous performance and said that India will have upper hand in the match but Pakistani bowling line is impressive and it will help Sarfaraz and his team to get victory of Indian side led by Virat Kohli. India has the strength and the psychological advantage on the basis of their recent performance. India has great batting potential as it has many talented and potential players in batting lineup, which can show their performance by playing aggressively.