Who could have predicted that Thursday’s cricket match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan would end with the countries’ political leaders trading banter about a Mr Bean lookalike?
Asif Muhammad is a Pakistani comedian who commentators online claimed visited an agricultural show in Zimbabwe a few years ago.
One disgruntled cricket commentator said Zimbabweans were disappointed to meet this “Fraud Pak Bean” because they’d expected to get the real “Mr Bean Rowan [Atkinson]”, according to the Indian Express website.
Take a look at Mr Muhammad for yourself – a pretty good likeness, no?
And here’s the exchange between the president of Zimbabwe and the prime minister of Pakistan, who apparently couldn’t resist taking part in the Twitter chatter:
