Shoaib Malik slams Ramiz Raja over deleted tweets controversy

Shoaib Malik slams Ramiz Raja: The veteran Pakistani all-rounder has once again indulged in online banter with the former Pakistani captain.

It seems that there is no stopping to the online banter between veteran Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik and former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja.

It all began earlier this month with Raja stating in an interview that Malik and another veteran all-rounder in Mohammad Hafeez should “retire gracefully” from international cricket.

Both Malik (38) and Hafeez (39) had last played a T20I in January this year against Bangladesh at home. As far as the ODIs are concerned, the senior Pakistani players had last played during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Responding to Raja’s interview, Malik took a dig at Raja on social media platform Twitter by saying that him, Hafeez and Raja should retire together. Malik’s tweet was then retweeted by Hafeez.

Yes @iramizraja bhai agreed. Since all 3 of us are the end of our careers let’s retire gracefully together – I’ll call and let’s plan this for 2022? 😅 @MHafeez22 #jokes https://t.co/vTwf9zzYOC

— Shoaib Malik 🇵🇰 (@realshoaibmalik) April 8, 2020

“Don’t need a tutorial from you…”

Soon enough, Raja had posted a series of tweets in which he asked Malik the facet from which he should retire. Furthermore, Raja bragged about him retiring from international cricket while being the captain of the Pakistani cricket team.

@realshoaibmalik @MHafeez22 1-retire gracefully .. from what ?.. speaking my mind on pak cricket? Sticking my neck out for pak cricket ? Wanting pak cricket back at top ? No chance .. won’t be gracefully retiring from that ever Malik Sahib! as for ur post retirement plans ..

— Ramiz Raja (@iramizraja) April 9, 2020

@realshoaibmalik @MHafeez22 2-would be tough to start commentating in 2022 as that would make you my age almost 😜And talking of careers , don’t need a tutorial from u of all the ppl as history, which is a great teacher, would tell u that I retired while I was Captain of Pak team

— Ramiz Raja (@iramizraja) April 9, 2020

Shoaib Malik slams Ramiz Raja

What followed was a glitch on the social media platform which saw Rameez’s tweets regarding Malik and Hafeez getting deleted. Raja then took on the same platform and appeared to accuse Malik’s manager of “mysteriously removing” the tweets.

While the same happened more than a fortnight ago, Malik slammed Raja regarding attacking his and his manager’s “personal credibility”. In reply, Raja claimed that the matter is solved and that Malik should “relax” and “stay safe”.

I agree to disagree on (my) retirement @iramizraja bhai – this is about my profession – so all cool

But please clarify your tweet which implied that your tweets disappeared & were linked to my manager & I. None of which are true. This is about our personal credibility – not cool https://t.co/z0wIDcSIND

— Shoaib Malik 🇵🇰 (@realshoaibmalik) April 19, 2020

@realshoaibmalik relax. Matter was sorted after talking with Ameem so all is cool. It was a technical glitch and nothing sinister. Stay safe!

— Ramiz Raja (@iramizraja) April 19, 2020

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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