“Mehnat aur bowling dono karte raho daba ke”: Kohli wish Shami on his birthday

XtraTime Web Desk: Cricket fraternity is wishing Indian cricket team’s star pacer Mohammed Shami as he is celebrating his 30th birthday on Thursday. He will spearhead Kings XI Punjab bowling line-up in IPL 2020 in the UAE.

Shami is only the fifth Indian pacer to take five wickets in the fourth innings of a Test after Karsan Ghavri, Kapil Dev, Madan Lal and Javagal Srinath. Shami is also the second-highest wicket-taker at ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 and 2019.

Whether it’s his splendid Test spells in England and Australia or a magnificent hat-trick to dismantle Afghanistan in the World Cup 2019, Shami and breakthroughs go hand in hand.

With 144 wickets from 77 ODIs at an average of 25.4 and a strike rate of 27.2, Shami’s best is yet to come in white-ball cricket.

India skipper Virat Kohli and others took to social media on Thursday to extend birthday wishes to the Indian cricket team’s star fast bowler. Kohli’s tweet read, “Happy b’ day Shami @MdShami11. Mehnat aur bowling dono karte raho daba ke.”