Shadab Khan Compares Babar Azam With Absolute Football Legends
Shadab Khan compares Babar Azam with Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi (Image Source: Twitter)
Pakistan is currently busy playing the three-match ODI series in the Netherlands. However, they already sealed the series by winning both of the matches. They will face off for the third match of the series on 21 August 2022. Meanwhile, Babar Azam and his boys made a visit to one of the Netherlands’ biggest football clubs Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax or AFC Ajax.
There they got the chance of meeting some football greats like Van der Sar, and current global football stars. However, Shadab Khan was seen introducing his skipper to the former Manchester United legend, Van der Sar. During that, he compared Babar with two football greats and the video got viral. It gt surfaced quickly over the internet.
Here is the shared video:
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“Babar Azam is Cristianal Messi of Cricket” – Shadab Khan to Van der Sar
Speaking of the video, Babar Azam, Shadab Khan, and others were present along with their manager Mansoor Rana. Dusan Tadic is known as a good player for Ajax. He and Babar exchanged signed t-shirts on the back of them. During the interaction with Van der Sar, Shadab Khan pointed at Babar and stated ‘he’s Cristianal Messi of Cricket’.
Now speaking of the ongoing series, Pakistan found it easy so far. The Netherlands put up a fight in the first match. But, in the second match, Pakistan had an easy victory. In the first match, Pakistan scored 314 runs by losing six wickets. In reply, the Netherlands scored 298 runs by losing eight wickets. Fakhar Zaman was the player of the match for scoring 109 runs off 109 balls, including 12 fours and one six.
Meanwhile, in the second match, the Netherlands batted first. They put up only 186 runs by losing all 10 wickets in 44.1 overs. In reply to that, Pakistan chased it down with ease in just 33.4 overs. They won the match by seven wickets. Mohammad Nawaz was the player of the match as he picked up three wickets in the match.
