A video is being shared on social media with a claim that it shows a recent fight between the supporters of Afghanistan and Pakistan after their cricket teams played against each other in the 2022 Asia Cup. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Visuals of a recent fight between the Afghanistan and Pakistan fans after the 2022 Asia Cup cricket match.
Fact: The posted video is an old one. It is related to the 2019 Cricket Cricket World Cup. While it is true that some clashes between the fans were reported after the 2022 Asia Cup cricket match, the posted video is not related to those incidents. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
When the screenshots of the video were run through Google Reverse Image, many similar visuals were found in the search results. ‘The Sun’ has written an article on the same video in June 2019 with the title – “Shocking new footage emerges of Pakistan and Afghanistan fans brawling during Cricket World Cup”. Many old posts showing similar visuals can be seen here, here, and here.
However, some clashes between the fans of the two teams were reported after the 2022 Asia Cup cricket match. Some of those actual visuals can be seen here, here, and here.
To sum it up, the posted video of a fight between Afghanistan and Pakistan fans is related to the 2019 Cricket World Cup, not the 2022 Asia Cup.
