New Delhi:

After pointing fingers at Virat a few days back, Pakistani cricketer Sohail Khan has now targeted Indian pacer Umran Malik.

In recent months, Umran Malik has made headlines for his speed.

Umran is regularly touching the speed of 150 km/h.

Even in the series played against Sri Lanka in the past, he touched the speed of 156 km / h and after that he remains the subject of attraction among the legends of the world.

But the Pakistanis are not able to digest Umran's stay in the discussions, but the Indian management is continuously encouraging this young pacer and he is getting a lot of appreciation from the former cricketers.

Malik has played 16 matches for India so far.

These include 8 ODIs and as many T20 matches.

He has taken 24 wickets in these matches and his average is 30 in both the formats.

However, this is not the first time

When a Pakistani has made such a comment about an Indian pacer.

Many years ago veteran Javed Miandad had also said something similar about Irfan, to which Pathan gave a befitting reply with a performance.

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Sohail Khan, who has played 9 Tests and 13 ODIs for Pakistan, was asked during a podcast program about Malik breaking Shoaib Akhtar's pace standard record.

On this Khan said, "I have seen many bowlers like this."

He said that I believe that Umran is a good bowler.

I have seen one or two of his matches.

He runs fast and takes care of other things too.

But if you think of 150-155 km/h bowlers, I can give you 12-15 bowlers who play tape-ball cricket.

If you go to the trials organized by Lagor Qalandars, you will find many such bowlers. 

Sohail said, "We have many like him here. Our domestic cricket is full of such pacers. When a bowler comes to our domestic level, he is a real bowler. Like Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Harris Rauf. These are such fast bowlers, who know their potential. Like them, I can count many more names. Earlier in the conversation, another Pakistan player Aaqib Javed did not hesitate to target Umran. Aaqib had said That Aqib's speed is less as compared to Harris.

On Shoaib Akhtar breaking Malik's record, Sohail said that there is only one thing here, which can break Akhtar's record.

And it's a bowling machine because no human could ever do that.

The reason is that Shoaib has worked very hard behind this.

No one has done such hard work.

Akhtar used to make 32 rounds of the stadium every day.

I used to apply only 10 in a week.

He used to run and sprint in hilly areas with heavy legs.

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