Have friends from Pakistan team, used to interact with Afridi: Ashok Dinda

Former India fast bowler Ashok Dinda who retired on Tuesday said that he made few friends from the Pakistan cricket team. "I have many friends from the Pakistan team. Mohammad Hafeez knows me really well, we are good friends. Players who played for the Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2008 like Salman Butt, Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar, everybody knows me. In fact, while playing for India, I used to interact with Shahid Afridi as well,” Dinda told Sportskeeda.

Dinda also talked about the kind of motivation the players have while the two teams face each other on the field. 

"It is a different experience, different ball game altogether, different one-on-one contests, going into India-Pakistan matches feel like going to war. No team wants to lose, hence a different motivation seeps into the entire squad."

The right-arm pacer hung his boots from all forms of the game on Tuesday. He represented India in 13 ODIs and 9 T20Is scalping 12 and 17 wickets respectively. 

In 116 First-class, Dinda picked up 420 wickets at an average of 28.28 while was a part of 98 List A matches. He had 151 wickets to his name in one day format. Apart from this the right-hander was capped in 147 T20s picking up 151 wickets during the course at an economy of 7.68. 

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