Irfan Pathan's adorable reply to Preity Zinta's congratulatory wish is unmissable

Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan called it quits from all forms of cricket on Saturday. southpaw turned out to be a consistent match-winner for India in early and mid-2000s. He was lethal with new ball with ability to move ball both ways and worked in tandem along with likes of Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Laksmipathy Balaji, RP Singh, Munaf Patel, S Sreesanth etc. to register some memorable wins for India. Pathan was one of bowling spearheads of team in a lot of historic moments that Indian cricket enjoyed in 2000s.

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As southpaw anunced his retirement, Twitter was flooded with congratulatory wishes for all-rounder from cricketing community. One such wish came from Bollywood actor, Preity Zinta, who is  owner of Kings XI Punjab, whom Irfan Pathan represented in Indian Premier League from 2008-10.

Preity Zinta's sweet words for all-rounder

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Irfan Pathan was quick to respond to Preity Zinta's wish as he termed her an amazing friend to have.

Irfan Pathan thanks Preity Zinta

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Irfan Pathan's cricketing career

Irfan Pathan played for India in 29 Tests, 102 One Day Internationals, and 24 T20Is from 2003 to 2012. In a cricketing career which spanned over a decade, Pathan was an integral part of numerous memorable victories which includes historic tour of Pakistan in 2003-04, 2007 ICC World T20 and 2007-08 Australian tri-series. southpaw played his last international match against South Africa in ICC World T20 2012.

former all-rounder had made it to 2013 Champions Trophy squad but did t feature in a single game as India went on to win tournament without a single loss. This was also last time that Pathan featured in Indian squad. 

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