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KARACHI: Former cricketer Shahid Afridi has offered to provide free endorsements for brands in return for ration and funds.
Taking to Twitter, Shahid Afridi wrote, “I have been lucky to have worked with many brands for advertisement and promotion.”
I have been lucky to have worked with many brands for ads/promotion. Now working first hand with the ones suffering during #COVID2019 I have a proposal to al brands: I will work with brands for free personally – I just want ration and funds in return #DonateKaroNa @SAFoundationN pic.twitter.com/UI43gkBTmo
— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) April 13, 2020
He further wrote that now in wake of coronavirus situation, he has a proposal to all brands. He explained that he will prefer to work with brands that are affected because of the virus.
He further said that he would not charge any personal fee, however, he is ready to work with brands in exchange for funds for coronavirus.
Recently Afridi backed his former teammate Shoaib Akhtar’s proposal for an ODI series between India and Pakistan to help raise funds for the less privileged in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Akhtar’s suggestion was criticised by Indian former cricketer Kapil Dev, who was quoted saying, “India does not need money.”
To this, Afridi replied that he was surprised by Kapil’s reaction, “I expected better from him and feel one should not talk like this in these crisis times. “I do not see anything wrong with Shoaib Akhtar’s suggestion for Pakistan and India to play cricket,” he added.
Afridi expressed that the entire world is fighting against coronavirus and we need unity in our region to defeat this common enemy. “Such negative comments do not help at all,” he added.
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