Some People Have Mental Constipation; Their Minds Are In The Past: Salman Butt's Reponse To Michael Vaughan's Jibe On Him

Both Salman Butt and Michael Vaughan have exchanged some heated words over the past two days regarding the Kane Williamson-Virat Kohli comparison. Salman Butt labelled Michael Vaughan’s remarks as irrelevant when he tried to reason why Virat Kohli is alone considered the greatest in the world. After the former English captain took a jibe at Butt for his involvement in spot-fixing back in 2010, the former Pakistan skipper has responded.

Michael Vaughan made debatable comments in an interaction with Spark Sport, claiming that Virat Kohli is considered the greatest today due to him being an Indian. The 46-year old believes that Kane Williamson is equally the best across formats and spoke of his supremacy in English conditions against the moving ball. But Salman Butt believes that Vaughan’s comments are irrelevant as Williamson remains behind Kohli in terms of tuns since the latter has over 70 centuries in international cricket.

Salman Butt also criticized the former English skipper for questioning Virat Kohli’s greatness since he does not have a single hundred in ODIs. After Vaughan hit back by saying wished he had clarity before getting indulged in match-fixing, the southpaw said that he’s picked the topic in the wrong context by talking about the past. Butt thinks that the Englishman suffers from mental constipation as their minds are in the past events.

“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 in his Youtube channel.

The year he has mentioned, he can go on: Salman Butt

Salman Butt believes that while talking about two great players, there was no need to take the conversation in an entirely different direction. The 36-year old highlighted that what happened with him is in the past; however, Vaughan should have provided some basis for his comments for anybody to learn something from it.

“We spoke about two great players and there was no need to take it into a different direction. But he has opted to. The year he has mentioned, he can go on. It’s the past and it’s gone. But that doesn’t change the actual fact, which we spoke about. Had he provided some statistical presentation, some logic, some experienced-based observation, it would have been better. We too could have learnt something,” he added.

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