Basit Ali: “Babar Azam, talk to your parents and get married. He will be a completely different man after that. I know how a player feels when he is not performing well. I request Babar’s parents to get him to marry”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali believes limited overs captain Babar Azam should get married soon as he will “be a completely different man after that”.
Pakistan opener Imam-ul-Haq: “My parents want to watch me play, but they have not seen me play at a venue even once. Even I don’t want them to. I don’t want my mother [to] hear someone utter parchi when I am fielding on the boundary”
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Imam-ul-Haq, the Pakistan opening batsman has admitted that he doesn’t want his parents to see him play since he is regularly taunted with chants of ‘parchi’.
Pakistan batsman Fawad Alam: “On 25th December, it was my parents’ wedding anniversary but I couldn’t arrange a gift for them. My father said the best gift would be if I did well against South Africa and scored a century”
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Pakistan batsman Fawad Alam dedicated his knock of 109 to his parents, saying it was the perfect gift for their wedding anniversary.
Shoaib Malik: “I’d like to dedicate this milestone to my parents. They’ve always prayed for me and I wish my father was alive today as he would’ve been very happy, but that’s how life is”
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Veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik became the first Asian player to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket on Saturday and dedicated his outstanding achievement to his parents and the people of Pakistan.
Naseem Shah: “Even in school during classes, I would be daydreaming about bowling, thinking about bowling fast, thinking when is this lesson going to end, so that I can get out of here and go and play cricket”
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Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah has revealed that he used to daydream about bowling fast in school.
Mohammad Hafeez: “Initially, my parents were against the idea of giving all my time to cricket. They wanted me to be an engineer”
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Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has revealed that his parents wanted him to be an engineer.
Mohammad Hafeez: “I am grateful to Allah for the blessings. My every success is owed to the prayers and encouragement I got from my parents”
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Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has revealed that he owes his success as a cricketer to “the prayers and encouragement I got from my parents”.
“I was really surprised, really happy and really excited when I saw what was happening”
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Morris admitted that he had never seen “this much money”
South Africa all-rounder Chris Morris, who had a base price of $20,000 in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, admitted that he was not expecting to be bought for a whopping $625,000 by the Chennai Super Kings.
Shahzad’s story shows that the road to becoming an international cricketer is not always an easy one
From an early age, Afghanistan-born Mohammad Shahzad knew nothing of life beyond the refugee camp his family and he had fled to in Peshawar after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
