Shoaib Akhter: Players were not comfortable under Wasim Akram’s captaincy– Cricket News Update
Pakistan’s former speedster, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Akhtar-c90080 said that players were not comfortable to play under Wasim Akram’s captaincy because of his rude behaviour with them.
Furthermore, he went on to say that it was not only him, who did not want to play under the captaincy of the legendary pacer Akram, as some other players were also uncomfortable by his essentric behaviour and mood swings.
Meanwhile, Akhtar, who recently announced retirement from international cricket during the recently concluded http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 ODI World Cup 2011, appreciated the services of Pakistan’s former fast bowler, Akram, and termed him as an outstanding pacer.
"Though I respected Akram as a bowler, he was abusive and had a bad attitude," he said while talking to the NewsX.
Earlier, the 36-year-old, Akhtar revealed in his autobiography, 'Controversially Yours' that Pakistan’s former captain, Akram was against his selection in the national side.
"http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292 threatened to walk out with half the team if I was included in the team. General Tauqir Zia backed me against Wasim." he claimed in his book.
Meanwhile, the master of swing bowling, Akram reacted angrily over Akhtar’s claim, and said that he had always been problem for the country during his cricketing career, and now after the retirement he is still a problem.
Akram refuted the allegations levelled against him and said that Akhter was himself responsible for spoiling his career because of his non-serious attitude.
"I know, Shoaib knows and the entire world knows that he himself is responsible for destroying his career. Nobody helped him (in destroying his career)." Akram had said while talking to the media.
In the meantime, the Rawalpindi Express clarified that the one should read out his book to understand the context of it.
According to him, the passage about his opposition in selection by Wasim Akram was regarding the playing XI of Kolkata Test in 1999 against arch rivals http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, when Akram did not want to pick him in the team, as he was interested to play with an unchanged
side.
Interestingly it is the same test in which Shoaib Akhter went on to become a global star by disloding the wickets of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 of consecutive deliveries. The later earned himself crickets most famous golden duck in the process.
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