Watch: Shaheen Afridi cleans up Marnus Labuschagne; Labuschagne gets him next day with his leg break

Marnus Labushagne got his sweet revenge against Shaheen Afridi a day after the bowler got him out in the County Championship.ย 
 By Kashish Chadha Apr 22, 2022, 20:19 IST
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Marnus Labuschagne got back at Shaheen Afridi one day after being dismissed by the Pakistan quick.ย 

In a moment of sweet revenge, Marnus Labuschagne got Shaheen Afridi out with his part-time legspin the very next day after the Pakistan speedster had gotten the Australian middle-order batter out. 

Labuschagne turned the tables on Afridi in a County Championship Division 2 game in the UK. Playing for Glamorgan, the Aussie batter avenged his dismissal against the Middlesex quick by getting him out the following afternoon. 

Intent on getting the big shots going at No.10 to try and stretch Middlesex's first-innings lead, Afridi danced down the ground and went for the big swing of the bat, only to be done in by the dip and turn on the delivery from Marnus Labushagne and sky the ball to the short cover fielder. 

Marnus Labuschagne gets back at Shaheen Afridi 

Seemingly hoping to go straight over the head of the bowler, the lower-order batter was done in by dip and the angle of the ball from Marnus Labuschagne, who landed it wide off his arc and extracted a miscued shot to the close-in fielder. 


It would've been a moment to grin over for Labuschagne as he once again got it to rip past a batter with his gentle but effective part-time spin bowling and that too against someone who had gotten him out a day earlier. 

Afridi got Glamorgan's Australian recruit out off a deflection from his inside edge onto the stumps while he tried to shoulder arms and leave the delivery outside off-stump. 

Batting on 8 off 24 balls at the time, the right-hander was only setting his eyes in for a long haul at the crease. But his vigil ended after an error in judgement, not being able to get his bat out of the way on the attempted leave. 

 

The wicket of Marnus Labuschagne was also the first for Afridi in his maiden County Championship stint for London-based Middlesex. The Afridi-Labuschagne dual was also seen with great interest throughout Australia's historic Test series in Pakistan in March. 
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