When Navjot Singh Sidhu threatened to beat Aamir Sohail with his bat!

When arch-rivals India and Pakistan face each other, the atmosphere is always heated. Players of both the teams are often involved in verbal spats.

During the 1996 clash between India and Pakistan in Sharjah, Aamer Sohail and Navjot Sidhu were involved in one such verbal spat.

The incident took place when Aamer Sohail was captaining Pakistan in a match at Sharjah against India. Sidhu was batting somewhere in the 90s.

Numerous reports at the time claimed that Sidhu had threatened to beat Sohail with his bat after losing his cool. However, various versions of the story have reported other things as well.

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Later, recalling the incident, Sohail revealed that Sidhu was unhappy with speedster Waqar Younis’ sledging in the game and had asked Sohail to advise his bowler not to hurl abuses.

“The incident took place when I was captaining Pakistan in 1996 in a match at Sharjah against India. Sidhu paaji was batting somewhere in the 90s,” said Sohail.

“In the middle of an over, he came to me angrily and said ‘Aamir paaji, teach your fast bowler. He is doing this wrong’, so I asked him ‘paaji, what happened’. So, he said ‘he’s throwing abuses at me’. So I told him ‘paaji, ignore him,” he further said.

“He’s a fast bowler; they have a habit of talking’. So he said, ‘no, no, say whatever you want but don’t give abuses’. So I said ‘okay paaji, I will tell him after the game, you go on and play’. That’s all that happened, and I don’t know what he is thinking and bringing up this incident. This is the truth,” he added.