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Twitter reacts as Asif Ali recreates MS Dhoni gunshot celebration after winning the game against Afghanistan

Asif Ali finished the game with four sixes in one over

Photo of Abhishek AbhishekOctober 30, 2021
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Not many would have forgotten the famous gunshot celebration of the former Indian captain MS Dhoni which he had done after scoring his first ever international hundred against Pakistan many years ago in Vizag.

Yesterday, the Pakistani batsman Asif Ali did the exact same celebration after finishing a thrilling game against Afghanistan with 4 sixes in one over. It was a proper exhibition of power hitting by the Pakistani middle order batsman.

Some would say that the Afghanistan fast bowler Karim Zanat bowled a lot of balls in the slot to Asif, but to even hit the slot balls out of the ground as consistently as Asif did, it’s not an easy task.

Asif Ali had bailed Pakistan out of trouble against New Zealand too

The game against Afghanistan was not the first game where Asif Ali did that. He had done the same against New Zealand as well. In effectiveness, Asif has faced a total of 19 balls in T20 World Cup 2021 and has scored 52 runs with 7 sixes and no fours at all.

Asif’s heroics against Afghanistan also dragged Pakistan almost to the semi final of the T20 World Cup, with the assumption that they would be able to beat Scotland and Namibia in their next two games.

When Asif finished the game with those 4 sixes in one over, nobody really paid too much attention to that gunshot celebration amidst the chaos of joy all around, but the footage later showed that celebration of Asif which very much resembled the gunshot celebration of MS Dhoni in Vizag.

MS Dhoni had scored 148 runs in that game in Vizag and it was the first time that the world cricket had taken note of a new star on the horizon.

There were a lot of tweets about Asif’s celebration after pulling off a heist in exactly the same manner Dhoni has done many a time in his career. Here are the tweets on Asif’s celebration –

 

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Photo of Abhishek AbhishekOctober 30, 2021
213 1 minute read
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Abhishek

I write a bit on cricket and I am more interested in technical and tactical side of the game, rather than bravado.
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