Brian Lara: “Wasim Akram was maybe the most difficult bowler or the one I least wanted to come up against”
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Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara has admitted that iconic Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram was “maybe the most difficult bowler” he faced or “the one I least wanted to come up against”.
Kamran Akmal: “We spoke about him (Harbhajan) making fun of Babar Azam. I admit the class of Babar and Brian Lara don’t match and there is no point making comparisons but as cricketers, we shouldn’t be making fun”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal confronted ex-India spinner Harbhajan Singh for “making fun of Babar Azam”.
Ahmed Shehzad: “Zahid played very little cricket and I remember once Brian Lara said, he is the fastest I have ever played”
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Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad recalled legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara saying Mohammad Zahid was the fastest bowler he ever faced.
Wasim Akram: “But yes, bowl attacking lines in the first few overs just to check whether they are set on that particular track”
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Pakistan pace icon Wasim Akram said his game plan to get batting maestro Babar Azam out would be to “bowl attacking lines in the first few overs.”
Wasim Akram: “Babar Azam for Pakistan is like [what] Brian Lara was for West Indies”
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Wasim Akram, the iconic left-arm pace bowler, believes captain Babar Azam can have the same impact for Pakistan as legendary batsman Brian Lara did for the West Indies.
Mohammad Yousuf: “Players like Saeed Anwar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Javed Miandad, and Zaheer Abbas came, but I was the one who made the most runs in a calendar year. Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara couldn’t break the record”
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Pakistan batting coach Mohammad Yousuf said neither India icon Sachin Tendulkar nor West Indies legend Brian Lara were able to break his record of the most Test runs scored in a calendar year.
Shadab Khan: “Spinners of our generation are lucky, we don’t have to bowl to him”
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Pakistan star Shadab Khan said he and other spinners are lucky that they don’t have to bowl to legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara.
Rashid Latif: “He (Babar) is the Bradman and Lara of this era”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rashid Latif said captain Babar Azam is the Don Bradman and Brian Lara of this era.
Shadab Khan said he would have loved to dismiss Brian Lara
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Pakistan spinner Shadab Khan has revealed that he would have loved to dismiss legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara.
Daren Sammy: “I literally questioned whether I wanted to play cricket again. Shoaib Akhtar did that to me”
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Former West Indies captain Daren Sammy has revealed that iconic Pakistan seamer Shoaib Akhtar made him question if he wanted to play cricket again.