The news doing the rounds is that Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, who tied nuptial knot with Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, joined hands with Bollywood actor Salman Khan to play against Pakistan.

At the Dubai sports city on Thursday, Malik created cricketing history by playing in Sallu's Indian team against his fellow team- mates headed by Shoaib Akhtar who played against Salman's 'being human' team from the Hindi film industry.

Apparently, Shoaib was reluctant to play against Pakistan team. It was wife Sania who convinced him.

A source from Salman's team said, "Sania Mirza is a huge Salman fan. When Salman asked her husband to play on his team Shoaib Malik was naturally reluctant. But then Sania's persuasive powers over her husband worked. When it came to Salman, Sania wouldn't hear a 'No' even from her own husband."

Arbaaz Khan verifies the historic occurrence. However he wouldn't like to attribute any political motives to Salman's charitable game in Dubai.

Arbaaz said, "It was a friendly match with mixed teams nothing like playing for or against. All in good spirit and for fun."

However with Pakistan awaiting 'Sania Bhabhi' to show up and Shoaib Bhai giving in to his wife's fondness for Salman by playing against Pakistan could it be a wrong move both politically and athletically? (With Inputs from Agencies)