Sachin Tendulkar wishes Irfan Pathan on his 33rd birthday

Legendary former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar wished all-rounder Irfan Pathan on his birthday. Pathan celebrates his 33rd birthday today, and his well-wishers, fans and colleagues have showered love and wishes to the Indian cricketer. Pathan is currently leading the Baroda team in the Ranji Trophy and he has been consistently making an impression in the domestic circuit.

One of the most talented seam and swing bowler, Pathan has played 29 Test matches and 120 ODIs for India. He has 100 and 173 wickets respectively. The left-handed batsman has a hundred and 11 fifties to his name in international cricket. Pathan has also played T20I cricket for India, bagging 28 wickets in 24 games.

Tendulkar, with whom Pathan has played the major part of his cricket at the international level, sent his warm wishes to the birthday boy. Tendulkar also wished him luck for the ongoing domestic season.

Patha on a comeback mode

The Baroda-born pacer is trying his best to make a comeback into the Indian side. Pathan last represented India in the year 2012. “I started early this season and I’m doing everything that I could to hopefully achieve my dream in the future,” he recently told ESPNcricinfo.

The promising all-rounder had his fair share of injuries and has been sidelined on many occasions, resulting in layoffs. He recently narrated the story of how he managed to play continuous seven days of non0stop cricket.”I was playing a Champions League game, the semi-final,” he recalls. “We lost the game. The same night we took a flight (back to India). A couple of days in between and I played a three-day game against England. Third day, the last day, I took a flight to Baroda. From the next day onwards, I played a Ranji Trophy game against Karnataka. I scored a hundred in that game, bowled more than 20 overs in an innings, so I played about nine days continuously,” the all-rounder said.

“My knee flared up and I got a fracture. So, in ten days I took an international flight, played a T20 game, came to India, I was still jet-lagged, played a three-day game, scored 45 against England, bowled more than 20-25 overs (19 overs), took a flight on the third day, played the Ranji Trophy whole game, and on the last day I got injured. Who plays that? No one plays seven days of continuous first-class cricket. So that was my commitment and eventually I got injured,” he added.

Here is the maestro’s tweet to the magical all-rounder: