Cricketers congratulate Sakshi Malik: Virender Sehwag's best 'girls save our pride' tweet

Bengaluru, Aug 18: Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar and other cricketers hailed Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik's bronze medal achievement at Rio Olympics 2016. Virender Sehwag paid the most fitting tribute to Sakshi.

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On Wednesday (August 17), Sakhi won India's first medal at Rio Games. She claimed a bronze in Freestyle 58kg category with a 8-5 win over Kyrgysztan's Aisuluu Tynybekova. It was a superb comeback for the Haryana girl after trailing 0-5 in the second round of the bout. (Indians salute 'Supergirl' Sakshi)

23-year-old Sakshi created history by becoming the first female wrestler from India to win an Olympic medal. Overall, she is the 4th woman to achieve the feat. The others being Karnam Malleswari (Bronze in weightlifting in Sydney 2000), Mary Kom (Bronze in boxing in London 2012) and Saina Nehwal (Bronze in badminton in London 2012).

Indian limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Tendulkar, Sehwag, Ravichandran Ashwin and other cricketers joined in to congratulate Sakshi, via the micro-blogging website Twitter. (Who is Sakshi?)

Sehwag's was the best message, which was retweeted by more than 8,000 users. He wrote, "#SakshiMalik is a reminder of what cn happn if u don't kill a girl child.When d going gets tough,its our girls who get going &save our pride."

Here are the messages from cricketers for Sakshi

What great news to wake up to! #SakshiMalik, your resilience at #Rio2016 has made whole of India proud. Many Congratulations!!!

— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 18, 2016

#SakshiMalik is a reminder of what cn happn if u don't kill a girl child.When d going gets tough,its our girls who get going &save our pride

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 18, 2016

Poora Bharat is baat ka Sakshi hai,jab koi bht mushkil ho toh is desh ki ladkiyan hi Malik hain.Thank U#SakshiMalik pic.twitter.com/YfHgRqxwTM

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 18, 2016

Great comeback by Sakshi Malik 2 win our 1st medal in Rio.determination and self belief r the key for a performance like this.congratulation

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni (@msdhoni) August 18, 2016

#SakshiMalik has made India proud.Wrestling in India gets another big boost.#Rio2016

— Ashwin Ravichandran (@ashwinravi99) August 17, 2016

Well done #SakshiMalik on your achievement! Proud of you! #Rio2016

— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) August 17, 2016

#SakshiMalik take a bow 👏👏😊😊 1st #Indian woman wrestler to win an #Olympics medal & #IND's first in #Rio2016 #Bronze pic.twitter.com/7W2BXFvSPn

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) August 18, 2016

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