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'Below the belt remark': Salman Butt responds to Vaughan's 'fixing' jibe
Former Pakistan cricketer Salman Butt has responded to Michael Vaughan's scathing remarks on Twitter and described the "match-fixing" jibe as a "below the belt" hit. Butt, in a video on his Youtube channel, had questioned Vaughan's remarks on India captain Virat Kohli and New Zealand captain Kane Williamson. Vaughan, in an interview on Spark Sport, had said that had Williamson been an Indian, he would be called the world's best batsman, directing that Kohli's huge fanbase in India is the reason most believe he alone is the best in the world. Butt, in a video on his Youtube channel on Saturday, asked Vaughan to back his remarks with stats and called his remarks "irrelevant". In response, the former England captain took to social media, and slammed Butt for "corrupting" the sport with "match-fixing". Now, in another video uploaded on his Youtube channel on Sunday, Butt responded to Vaughan and said that some people have "mental constipation".
"I don't want to get into details. I just want to say that he's picked the topic in the wrong context. There is no justification for a reaction like this. This is very below-average, below-the-belt. If he wants to live in the past and wants to talk about it, he surely can. Constipation is an illness. Things get stuck and they don’t come out that easily. Some people have mental constipation. Their minds are in the past. That doesn’t matter," Butt said on his YouTube channel.
