Ex-spin great Saqlain Mushtaq celebrates 45th birthday

Saqlain Mushtaq, regarded as one of the greatest off-spinners of all time, celebrated his 45th birthday today.

Mushtaq, widely known as the founder of "Dusra", was born on 29 December 1976 in Lahore.

Saqlain served as Pakistan cricket team's interim head coach during the T20 World Cup, Bangladesh and the West Indies series held recently. 

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) took to Twitter to upload an old clip of the former Pakistani spinner in which he clean bowls ex-England opening batsman Marcus Trescothick.

"The right-arm off-spinner took 496 international wickets from 218 matches. Saqlain served as interim head coach of Pakistan men’s team during ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021, tour of Bangladesh and West Indies series," PCB tweeted.

Saqlain played 169 ODIs for Pakistan from which he took 288 wickets and took 208 Test wickets from the 49 Test matches he played.