Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Taimoor Masood and Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi have congratulated Pakistan cricket team for snatching a narrow 1-wicket victory against in-form Afghanistan cricket team in a Super-4 clash of T20 Asia Cup at Sharjah, UAE.
Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Taimoor Masood, in his felicitating message on Thursday, said that the Pakistan cricket team demonstrated wonderful fighting spirit especially in the later stages of closely fought T20 encounter.
Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Taimoor Masood highly admired the performance of fast bowler Naseem Shah, who struck two back-to-back sixes and sealed a berth in the final of Asia Cup. “Wicketkeeper M Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan and Asif Ali also contributed valuable shares in the tense T20 clash,” he added.
Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi in his greeting message lauded the performance of national cricket squad in a crucial T20 match of ongoing Asia Cup. He said that tail-ender speedster Naseem Shah really deserved huge appreciation the way he controlled his nerves in the tense final stages of the nerve-wrecking T20 match against Afghanistan.
He expressed his hope that Pakistan cricket team will carry this match winning performance in the remaining key encounters of T20 Asia Cup cricket tournament and clinch the title of T20 Asia Cup cricket tournament.