Naseem Shah accused of age fraud as an old Tweet of a Pakistan Journalist resurfaces

Pakistan is known as the nursery of producing talented pacers with every passing year in international cricket. It is something that has kept the men in green always in contention during the major international tournament. They have come up with numerous pacers who went on to shock the world with their talented skills of producing a sheer pace with elegance.

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When it is to replace any pacer due to injury or unavailability, then Pakistan always has faced a problem of plenty. A similar has happened recently when young speedster Naseem Shah spearheaded the pace attack of Pakistan in the absence of star pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi who has been ruled out of the tournament due to a knee injury.

Naseem made his first appearance for Pakistan just at the age of 16 and made it to the headlines in international cricket. Apart from that, he has recently performed exceptionally well in the first match of Pakistan against India during the Asia Cup 2022.

Both experts and fans were amazed that only a 19-year-old guy is troubling one of the best batting lineups in the world of cricket. But this is an era of the internet where people keep digging to come up with astonishing facts and revelations.

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It also happened in the case of Naseem when people saw an old tweet of veteran Pakistani sports journalist Saj Sadiq which he posted four years back in 2018. In this tweet, he mentioned Naseem as a highly rated pacer of just 17-year-old.

Old tweets found Naseem Shah accused of an alleged age fraud

“Highly rated 17-year-old pace bowler Nasim Shah who was signed by Quetta Gladiators for the Pakistan Super League has suffered a back injury. He is back in training and hopes to be fit for PSL4 #Cricket #PSL4,” read the tweet from Saj Sadiq.

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Here's the tweet from Saj Sadiq:

Highly rated 17 year old pace bowler Nasim Shah who was signed by Quetta Gladiators for the Pakistan Super League has suffered a back injury. He is back in training and hopes to be fit for PSL4 #Cricket #PSL4

— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) December 1, 2018

Since then, the tweet is there on his Twitter handle he never bothered to delete it or to come up with any sort of explanation regarding this. It also transliterates into the fact that it was not a typing error in any case.

Naseem Shah was 17 y/o in 2018. But now in 2022, he's just 19 y/o 😯👏 pic.twitter.com/OQSS3cwjm7

— Trueshil (@rushilthefirst) August 29, 2022

If an individual considers this tweet as correct on the grounds of facts, which puts the journalist in the radius of a lie about the age young Pakistani pacer. This old tweet is also contradictory to the official records that have been provided by Shah to the cricket’s governing body.

Notably, the apex governing body of international cricket has a zero-tolerance policy against age fraud and considers it as a serious crime.

Now, it is awaited to see what the officials of the apex cricket council come up with regarding this age issue of Naseem Shah.