Sania Mirza posts heartfelt tweet after husband Shoaib Malik will become first Asian cricketer to 10,000 T20 runs

Sania Mirza reacted after her husband and Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik have become the primary Asian cricketer to attain 10,000 T20 runs on Saturday.

Longevity, patience, tough work, sacrifice and belief – These had been the phrases utilized by Sania Mirza to explain her husband and Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik’s stellar success on Saturday.

Sania tweeted to congratulate Shoaib Malik after the middle-order batsman have become the primary Asian cricketer to get to 10,000 T20 runs.

Malik is handiest the 1/3 cricketer withinside the international after Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard to attain 10,000 runs withinside the shortest layout of the game.

Malik executed the milestone in a National T20 cup – Pakistan’s home T20 tournament - fit on Saturday. Representing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Malik slammed seventy four off forty four balls towards Balochistan.

Reacting to his success, Malik said: “I would really like to congratulate the humans of Pakistan as I am the primary Asian cricketer to have reached this milestone of creating 10,000 runs in #T20 cricket & I wish I will keep on withinside the manner I had been playing. I’d want to devote this milestone to my mother and father they’ve continually prayed for me. I desire my father became alive nowadays as he would’ve been very happy, however that’s how lifestyles is. Whenever I visit the floor I continually name my mom earlier than a fit & get her prayers.

“Also a massive thankyou on the equal time to all my fellow players, floor group of workers members, lovers and supporters.”

Malik, who's 1/3 withinside the listing of maximum run-scorers in T20s, has 10,027 runs in 395 fits at a mean of 37.forty one and a strike charge of 125.71.

The former Pakistan captain had introduced his retirement from ODI cricket after the 2019 ODI World Cup however he maintains to ply his exchange for Pakistan in T20Is.