Wasim Akram: “I was ready to guide the players but no one came to me”

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Legendary Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram has admitted that he has grown “tired” of giving advice to the national team.

Akram’s comments come after Pakistan were beaten by 89 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in their World Cup clash against arch-rivals India on Sunday.

Akram noted that he has constantly tried to provide advice to the men in green, but it has always fallen on deaf ears.

“When you’re going with five bowlers, that means you’re omitting one batsman and bowling would be your strength. And, when you’ve bowling as your strength, you go for defending the total,” Akram told Geo.tv. “I have been saying things to them since the [last] two games but I am tired of it now.

“I am here, I have played here, I was ready to guide the players but no one came to me. Even in the tournament, only Shaheen Shah Afridi came once to seek my advice and other than that, no one came to me to ask anything.”

Pakistan’s next World Cup match will be against South Africa at Lord’s on Sunday.

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