Hyderabad: Afghanistan all-rounder Gulbadin Naib, who led the national cricket team in 2019 World Cup, opened up about his captaincy stint in an exclusive interview with the ETV Bharat. Naib also talked about his journey from being bodybuilder to playing cricket at the highest level.
Body-Building to Cricket
Naib has played over 100 matches for the national side but very few people know that the 19-year-old was interested in body-building.
"I was not the kind of bodybuilder, I was supposed to be. When I was in school, I used to watch wrestling and then it became my hobby and I started bodybuilding. I thought I would do something in it. It is very difficult to take bodybuilding as a career and then I started playing cricket. It is very difficult to do bodybuilding along with cricket. However, I still do bodybuilding. "
How much difficult is it to become a cricketer in Afghanistan?
Star Afghani cricketer said, "Now the facilities are much more than before. When we used to play cricket, we had no goal, we did not know that we would ever come this long and will play cricket for Afghanistan. But now the facilities are good and everyone wants to play cricket for Afghanistan."
Nab, who has 76 wickets international wicket for Afghanistan, said that there are many batsmen who bother him but the most difficult batsman was Virat Kohli.
"I have bowled two overs against him and I realize that he is the best batsman."
Gulbadin, who scored a total of 1536 international runs, named Pakistan's spinner Saeed Ajmal as the most dangerous bowler.
He said, "I have faced some overs against him and he is very good."
When asked about the best thing in India, he said, "The people of India are very good, there is no feeling that we People are in some other country. The food there is also very good. We like Dal Makhni there. "
When will Afghanistan win the ICC Trophy?
In 2012, Naib, who had captained the Afghanistan team for the first time in an ODI match, said, "If we look at the history of our cricket, then we will know that if we can do so much in a short time, then that day is not too far when we win the ICC Trophy. "
Talking about the match against India in the World Cup he said that the match was very good and when Mohammad Nabi was at the crease it seemed that we would win that match but Mohammad Shami's over messed it up.
