Shoaib Akhtar Prediction On Pakistan Cricket: Pakistani cricket player Shoaib Akhtar, popularly known as Rawalpindi Express, has made a prediction about Sam Ayub. While talking to PTV Sports, the veteran player of Pakistan cricket said that in the form of Sam Ayub, Pakistani cricket has got a big player, who can perform better for the team in all three formats Test, ODI and T20.

While talking on Pakistani channel, Shoaib Akhtar said that ‘Pakistani cricket has got a big player in the form of Sam Ayub, whose credit can be given to the Pakistani management. The Pakistan Cricket Board and the team coach expressed confidence in this player, gave him many opportunities to play and Sam Ayub has taken advantage of it very well. Shoaib Akhtar further said that ‘Whoever wants to become a star, he becomes one, paths also open for him and for the player who has to reach there, luck also takes him there’.

Tremendous performance against South Africa

Pakistan cricket team has defeated South Africa in ODI and T20. This was Pakistan’s home series, in which Sam Ayub’s tremendous performance was seen. Sam Ayub played an inning of 77 runs in the third and last ODI against South Africa and Pakistan won the match by 7 wickets. Along with this, the series was also captured.

Pakistan’s opening batsman Sam Ayub scored 169 runs in three ODI matches against South Africa, scoring half-centuries in two matches. Ayub scored 39 runs in the first match, 53 runs in the second match and 77 runs in the third match. In the T20 series also, Sam Ayub had scored 108 runs in 3 matches. Seeing this tremendous performance of Ayub, Shoaib Akhtar has called him the best batsman of all three formats.

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The India-Pakistan match is being played in Dubai in the Asia Cup 2025. When Pakistani captain Salman Aga won the toss and chose the batting first, it was a ax -hitting decision in his own leg. Because after 2021, the winning percentage of the first batting team in Dubai is very bad. Sam Job, who is called the next superstar player of the Pak team, has become a victim of Golden Duck in the second consecutive match. He was dismissed by Hardik Pandya on the score of ‘0’ on the first official ball of the match. He was also out on the very first ball against Oman.

The first over for India came to Hardik Pandya, who was getting swing from the beginning. The first ball was wide, but Pandya bowled out the outswing ball outside the second ball off-stump, on which Sam Ayub laid the bat and the ball went straight into the hands of Jasprit Bumrah.

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Sam Ayub’s name has been added to those players who have become the victim of golden duck in innings consecutive innings in international T20 cricket history. In international T20 cricket, the record of being dismissed on golden duck is the name of Abdullah Shafiq of Pakistan, who was dismissed on Golden Duck in T20 innings four times in consecutive innings.

Bumrah was predicted to hit 6 sixes

Recently, former Pakistan cricketer Tanveer Ahmed while doing Bhaviswani said that Sam Job can hit Jaspreet Bumrah in the Asia Cup. Far from 6 sixes, he did not get a chance to come in front of Bumrah. Ayub has played two balls in this tournament, scored 0 runs and has been dismissed on ‘Zero’ both times.

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