Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar has said Shaheen Shah Afridi should have sacrificed his knee at the T20 World Cup.

The pacer got injured in the final against England and couldn’t complete his spell costing Pakistan the title.

However, the Rawalpindi Express said if he had been in Shaheen’s place, he would have died.

“If I was at his [Shaheen] place… that 12 minutes and 12 balls, I would have become the biggest celebrity of Pakistan,” he said in a video circulating on social media.

“Would have bowled, fell down, broke the knee, blood would be coming out from my mouth… I would dust myself up, take an injection to get my knee numb, and would have repeated that 12 times, but would not have let the World Cup slip away.”

He went on to add that it was the moment when he could have become a superstar. “If was at his place I would have died for Pakistan.”

England clinched the T20 World Cup title in 2022 for the second time by defeating Pakistan by five wickets with an over to spare.