Kolkata, Aug 17 - A young female fan stunned everyone at a function Monday as she tried to publicly hug and kiss Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan, but the pacer used his reflexes to block her advances at the last moment.

The incident took place at a city hotel, and Irfan could only manage an embarrassing smile as he thwarted 24-year-old Kolkata girl Sabina Khatun's advances. She had literally lunged at him on the stage, where the pacer's elder brother Yusuf Pathan was also present.

Khatun, who works for an insurance company, was one of the recipients of prizes for a promotional contest held by Tata Indicom and tried her desperate act while waiting for a photo op with the Pathan brothers after receiving the prize.

The girl, a resident of Park Circus in the southern part of the city, later said she could not hold herself on standing next to Irfan.

'I am a big fan of Irfan. I wanted to touch him. And I have touched him. I am very happy,' a smiling Sabina later told mediapersons, who scrambled for a byte from the girl.

Asked what she was mumbling to Pathan on the stage, she replied: 'I was telling him that I wanted to hug and kiss him'.

'But he was saying 'No no, please don't do it. Shivangi gala kat legi (Shivangi will kill me)'.

Shivangi Dev is Irfan's fiancee.

However, Sabina vehemently denied that what she did was pre-planned.