Former national team captain Babar Azam has called the aggressive young opener Saim Ayub a ‘cheetah’ for his brilliant performance during the three-match ODI series against South Africa.
Yesterday, the Pakistan cricket team made history on South African soil by whitewashing the host country for the first time in an ODI series.
In the third and final ODI of the series, Pakistan achieved this historic feat by defeating South Africa by 36 runs.
Opener Saim Ayub played an important role in the national team’s victory in the last ODI and played an innings of 101 runs off 91 balls. He was declared the best player of the match for his brilliant performance.
Earlier, he had scored a century in the first match of the series and played an important role in the team’s victory. Based on this great performance, he was also declared the player of the series against the Proteas.
Even batsman Babar Azam could not help but be impressed by the young opener’s great performance and praised Saim Ayub.
In a post on the social networking website Instagram, Babar Azam shared a picture of Saim Ayub taken on the field and wrote: “Cheetah”
