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Shoaib Malik's fastest T20 50 has Pakistani Twitter overflowing with admiration

Shoaib Malik's fastest T20 50 has Pakistani Twitter overflowing with admiration

The '40 years young' cricketer sure knows how to silence his haters, one six at a time.
08 Nov, 2021

In case you missed Pakistan's win against Scotland in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sunday night, cricketer Shoaib Malik scored a fiery 54-run spell while batting against the Scots last night, making his 50 the joint-fastest of the 2021 World Cup alongside Indian cricketer KL Rahul’s, which was also against Scotland.

Pakistan breezed through with a 72-run win on Sunday night to seal the top spot in Group II and set up a semi-final meeting with Australia.

Many took to Twitter to congratulate Malik for the achievement. Cricketer Shoaib Akhtar tweeted and called Malik "40 years young & blistering". Other users agreed with him.

That 50 was glorious and Twitter wanted the entire world to know.

Twitter thanked Malik's wife and tennis player Sania Mirza for playing a big role in the record. She was there in the stands with their three-year-old son cheering Malik on.

It was truly wholesome.

She's the good luck charm that keeps Malik swinging, according to Twitter. Pakistan needs its favourite bhabi to attend the rest of Pakistan's matches as well.

There was a little tongue-in-cheek humour about the only two Indians heading into the semi finals after the Indian cricket team was eliminated from the World Cup.

All Shoaib Malik haters, we see you.

Singer Asim Azhar especially wants the haters to exit the chat.

The man is like fine wine that ages well, or in Malik's case, non-alcoholic wine.

Four decades later, the man is still going strong.

Congratulations to Malik as well as team Pakistan for making it through to the semi finals with such impressive swag.

Comments

bhaRAT© Nov 08, 2021 04:03pm
He is good against spinners. He won't get them from better teams.
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Oldhabibian Nov 08, 2021 04:13pm
Wonder how Sania's family will be treated after Shoaib's 50, in India? After what they did when they lost to Pakistan.
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Raza Nov 08, 2021 04:23pm
There is no shortcut to experience , provided your keep your self physically fit for the game.
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Ziauddin Shaikh Nov 08, 2021 04:54pm
Whoever thought of including this 'aged wonder' in the team at the last minute must have had an inspiration from somewhere! Welldone Shoaib.
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Soraj Nov 08, 2021 05:02pm
Why such celebration ? It’s not like he scored against India or NZ.
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Abood Nov 08, 2021 05:20pm
Dont get the women part supporting him for his 50.he did play a great and he got the score.according to this the other players either need to get married or there women needs to support them.its a matter of trophy.
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Pak Pashtun USA Nov 08, 2021 05:28pm
It was against Scotland, take it easy people.
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Jamil Soomro, New York City Nov 08, 2021 06:13pm
Shoaib Malik came in line and played his turn with utmost determination and took the dignity of Pakistan to the sky. Congratulations for doing the impossible.
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Hasan Mahmood Nov 08, 2021 07:01pm
Seriously! This was against one of the worst teams. How about we wait and see what Shoaib does against a decent team.
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KHAN Nov 08, 2021 11:01pm
@Pak Pashtun USA than why other players of other team couldn’t do the same against Scotland
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Observer101 Nov 08, 2021 11:35pm
He is admired on both sides of the border.
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad Nov 09, 2021 01:01am
He has proved with a big bang that when you believe in yourself, anything is possible irrespective of your age.
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Hamid Nov 09, 2021 04:36am
Why there some people getting excited about Malik's fifty, against one of the weakest associate team? If he score a fifty against Aus on Thursday then I'll take my hat off, in the meantime lets not get too excited.
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Hamid Nov 09, 2021 04:37am
Some of those people twitting , thinks Scotland is a world power cricketing nation.
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Saran Nov 09, 2021 05:51am
The way he is batting His wife like it
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altaf shaikh Nov 09, 2021 06:29am
@Oldhabibian No trip to India for her for next 30 days. Let the dust cool down
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Tadka Nov 09, 2021 06:33am
@Oldhabibian Malik is respected in India and his 50 is welcome even if he plays against Indians
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Mike Nov 09, 2021 06:53am
Shoaib & Hafeez, Two Faces of the same coin, always playing good against weaker Teams to keep their positions cemented for more than 20 years. thus depriving new talents who enter the Team at a Ripe age of 39.
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High flier Nov 09, 2021 09:23am
Too much exposure is given to age numbers instead of fitness and skills, why people worry about other people's age so much ??
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Anonymouseee Nov 09, 2021 10:41am
Excellent innings no doubt. Go all the way Team GREEN. Best wishes and prayers.
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