{"id":9270,"date":"2025-10-09T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=645494"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:36:51","slug":"pakistans-ihsanullah-claims-he-can-dismiss-abhishek-sharma-in-just-three-balls-after-retiring-and-returning-within-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pakistans-ihsanullah-claims-he-can-dismiss-abhishek-sharma-in-just-three-balls-after-retiring-and-returning-within-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Ihsanullah claims he can dismiss Abhishek Sharma in just three balls after retiring and returning within 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan fast bowler <strong>Ihsanullah<\/strong>, who recently made headlines for announcing his retirement at 22 and reversing the decision within 24 hours, has stirred controversy again with a bold claim about Indian opener <strong>Abhishek Sharma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a video that has gone viral on social media, Ihsanullah declared that he could dismiss Abhishek Sharma in <strong>just three deliveries<\/strong>, despite never having faced him in an international match. \u201cIf I play against India and get to bowl to Abhishek Sharma, he will not be able to hit me. I will only need 3 balls to dismiss him easily,\u201d said the Pakistan pacer.<\/p>\n<p>Ihsanullah, who last featured in a T20I back in <strong>2023<\/strong>, has been out of action due to an elbow injury and lack of match practice. His comments come after Sharma\u2019s stellar run in the <strong>Asia Cup 2025<\/strong>, where the Indian opener emerged as the <strong>tournament\u2019s leading run-scorer<\/strong>, amassing <strong>314 runs from seven matches<\/strong> at an average of <strong>44.85<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Against Pakistan, Abhishek was in exceptional form \u2014 smashing <strong>74 runs off 38 balls<\/strong> in the Super Fours clash on <strong>September 21<\/strong>, laced with six fours and five sixes. He also scored 31 and 5 in the other two encounters against the arch-rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab-born batter has since climbed to the <strong>top of the ICC Men\u2019s T20I batting rankings<\/strong>, surpassing England\u2019s <strong>Dawid Malan\u2019s five-year-old record<\/strong> for the highest-ever rating.<\/p>\n<p>While Ihsanullah\u2019s claim has drawn amusement from fans, many have pointed out that even Pakistan\u2019s senior pacers struggled to contain Abhishek\u2019s explosive form during the Asia Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan fast bowler Ihsanullah, who recently made headlines for announcing his retirement at 22 and reversing the decision within\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-abhishek-sharma"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}