"Women are good cooks, they should stay away from cricket" : Shahid Afridi

[Bahnz]

I guess it's really not that surprising given his background, but it's still highly disappointing that he'd come out and say this publicly. Don't like to think how young female cricket fans in Pakistan will respond to this.

 

[indiaholic]

Should be suspended the game IMO. If he had said any ethnic group instead of women, it would have created a furore and rightly so. It is an indication of how deeply insensitive we are about women's issues that we can just laugh at him.

 

[smash84]

Should be suspended the game IMO. If he had said any ethnic group instead of women, it would have created a furore and rightly so. It is an indication of how deeply insensitive we are about women's issues that we can just laugh at him.

This would be over doing it I think

 

[artvandalay]

This is right up there with Andy Gray and Richard Keys comments on Sky. Ok maybe not quite but still.

 

[hendrix]

This would be over doing it I think

if anything brings the game into disrepute, that comment is it.

 

[GotSpin]

Oh Afridi. So good

 

[smash84]

if anything brings the game into disrepute, that comment is it.

How do Afridi's comments bring the game into disrepute?

 

[hendrix]

How do Afridi's comments bring the game into disrepute?

a star cricketer makes an openly ***ist comment to the media?

 

[Howe_zat]

dope

 

[karan316]

So Afridi's logic is that if you are good at one thing, you shouldn't try another. So in that case, people who are good at cricket, should stay away from ***??

 

[smash84]

a star cricketer makes an openly ***ist comment to the media?

That should bring the star cricketer into disrepute and not the game

 

[fredfertang]

So Afridi's logic is that if you are good at one thing, you shouldn't try another. So in that case, people who are good at cricket, should stay away from ***??

Now I understand why I'm such a lousy cricketer ..................................

 

[smash84]

Fred, you were the exception, who was lousy at cricket and lousy in bed

 

[M0rphin3]

IDGAF about players sledging, however harsh it is, but this is just dire ****. And worries me how he thought it was totally cool to make these terribly misogynistic comments there. This is not just a matter of "offense" especially since this guy has huge fanbase and misogyny is so rampant in Pakistan (I'm not saying it isn't elsewhere, obviously, but just that it's worse in degree)

Read the top rated comments there.

I'd be really pissed off if this pr**k gets off the hook easily this time. This is not something to be taken lightly IMO.

 

[fredfertang]

Fred, you were the exception, who was lousy at cricket and lousy in bed

Well **** me backwards, sideways and every which way Smali - you must be that Gwendoline woman that I "met" at the Reading Festival back in '81 - in my defence I did make the point to you at the time that a surfeit of magic mushrooms was affecting my performance, and although I didn't say this at the time I'll say it now and tell you that it doesn't help a bloke to maintain his interest when the object of his desires keeps wittering on about how she wishes you were really Imran Khan - bit of a wilter that one

 

[hendrix]

That should bring the star cricketer into disrepute and not the game

yeah but how many times do we see cricketers suspended for things that have nothing to do with cricket? i.e. drinking, violent behaviour, non-performance enhancing drugs etc.

Their contracts basically describe them as walking advertisements for cricket. Intelligent people know that they're not, but like it or not that's the way sports contracts work.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Well **** me backwards, sideways and every which way Smali - you must be that Gwendoline woman that I "met" at the Reading Festival back in '81 - in my defence I did make the point to you at the time that a surfeit of magic mushrooms was affecting my performance, and although I didn't say this at the time I'll say it now and tell you that it doesn't help a bloke to maintain his interest when the object of his desires keeps wittering on about how she wishes you were really Imran Khan - bit of a wilter that one

Typical Smali (or Gwendoline) to moan about Imran during the old game.

 

[wiff]

Well **** me backwards, sideways and every which way Smali - you must be that Gwendoline woman that I "met" at the Reading Festival back in '81—cut to sitar music in background

I'm surprised that you could remember any part of the eighties.

 

[Top_Cat]

Allowing Afridi to speak about anything comes with a cost but Fred's post covers the bill many times over.