In his recent post on Instagram, Shami shared a video of him painting amid the nationwide three-week lockdown.
"Trying out some sketches after years...how do you think about the "The Artist Shami"?," Shami captioned the video on Instagram.
In an interview, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar, when asked who is his favourite Indian fast bowler, he took Shami’s name.
“He reminds me of Malcolm Marshall, who still wakes me up from deep sleep,” Gavaskar said while commentating for ‘Star Sports’.
Impressed with Shami’s skills, Gavaskar had earlier compared the fast bowler to a leopard.
“When he is running in, when the spider cam actually takes it, it is such a sight. It is almost like a leopard going for a kill,” Gavaskar had said.