{"id":74882,"date":"2025-08-18T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74882\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:50:07","slug":"debut-on-a-new-pitch-irfan-pathan-drops-hint-of-joining-politics-aapko-lagta-hai-aana-chahiye-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74882\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut on a new pitch? Irfan Pathan drops hint of joining politics &#8211; &#8216;Aapko lagta hai aana chahiye?&#8217; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123356615.jpg\" alt=\"Debut on a new pitch? Irfan Pathan drops hint of joining politics - 'Aapko lagta hai aana chahiye?'\" title=\"**EDS: THIRD PARTY** In this image posted by @iamyusufpathan via X on Monday, March 31, 2025, TMC MP and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan celebrates Eid with father Mehmood Khan Pathan and brother Irfan Pathan. (@iamyusufpathan via PTI Photo)    *** Local Caption ***\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>**EDS: THIRD PARTY** In this image posted by @iamyusufpathan via X on Monday, March 31, 2025, TMC MP and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan celebrates Eid with father Mehmood Khan Pathan and brother Irfan Pathan. (@iamyusufpathan via PTI Photo)    *** Local Caption *** A year after his elder brother <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/yusuf-pathan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yusuf Pathan<\/a> joined politics and went on to win from the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal&#8217;s Murshidabad district for the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/trinamool-congress\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trinamool Congress<\/a>, younger brother <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/irfan-pathan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irfan Pathan<\/a>, too, has shown interest in following his brother&#8217;s path.Yusuf Pathan had defeated Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who had been winning the Baharampur constituency since 1999 and had consecutively won Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p>IRFAN PATHAN FLYING FROM MUMBAI SPOTTED AT AIRPORT<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with The Lallantop, when the anchor coaxed Irfan Pathan about whether he is interested in joining politics, the former India all-rounder said: &#8220;Aapko lagta hai aana chahiye? (Do you think I should join?)&#8221;He then made it more specific and stated: \u201cMai jo bhi karoonga apni zindagi mey&#8230; aage jaa ke ya abhi hamesha difference paida karne ke liye karoonga aur agar nahi kar paaya toh nahi karoonga (Whatever I do in my life\u2014whether now or in the future\u2014I will always do it to make a difference. And if I cannot make a difference, then I won\u2019t do it at all).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Should Irfan Pathan join politics like his brother Yusuf Pathan?<\/p>\n<p>Pathan played 29 Tests, 120 ODIs and 24 T20Is, claiming 301 international wickets before retiring in 2020.He burst onto the international scene in 2003 as a teenager, drawing comparisons with Wasim Akram. At his peak, he could swing the new ball prodigiously and contribute vital runs down the order, earning comparisons with Kapil Dev. His hat-trick against Pakistan in the 2006 Karachi Test remains historic. A match-winning spell in the 2007 T20 World Cup final cemented his reputation as a big-match player.Whether he will join politics or not, only time will tell, but the 40-year-old has certainly teased fans about his future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"**EDS: THIRD PARTY** In this image posted by @iamyusufpathan via X on Monday, March 31, 2025, TMC MP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[38405,38404,38406,1721,37361,229,101,8051,38403,56,54,55,38402],"class_list":["post-74882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-adhir-ranjan-chowdhury","tag-baharamppur-lok-sabha-seat","tag-baharampur","tag-cricket","tag-irfan-pathan","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-trinamool-congress","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yusuf-pathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}