Shoaib Akhtar: “I’ll give free advice, but I’ll never work for the Pakistan Cricket Board”
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Legendary fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has said he will offer “free advice” to players who need it but will never work for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Shoaib Akhtar: “Jasprit Bumrah’s game awareness is exactly like Wasim Akram’s. He’s a thinking fast bowler and has the best yorker in world cricket”
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Legendary 161.3 kph Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has lauded India speedster Jasprit Bumrah, saying his game awareness is just as good as Wasim Akram’s.
Shoaib Akhtar: “You’ve been spoiling Fakhar Zaman for five or six years. He is a natural opener. Let him play his natural game”
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Iconic Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar believes Fakhar Zaman has been used incorrectly by the team management for the past five to six years.
Shoaib Akhtar: “Babar Azam is not going to deliver until you play him as an opener. He is of no use in the middle order”
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Pakistan pace legend Shoaib Akhtar believes Babar Azam will be useless in the middle order and will not deliver in T20Is unless he returns to opening the batting.
Shoaib Akhtar: “Fakhar Zaman is a natural opener, yet he was not played earlier”
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Pakistan fast bowling icon Shoaib Akhtar said Fakhar Zaman is a natural opener and questioned why he has not been used in that role more often.
Shoaib Akhtar on Saqlain Mushtaq: “Both of us secretly used to take pills and injections just to be able to play the match. Had any senior known this, they would have thrown out Saqlain”
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Iconic 160kph Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar has revealed that spinner Saqlain Mushtaq would have been “thrown out” of the national team had any senior player known he was taking pills and injections to treat his knee pain.
Shoaib Akhtar: “Salman Ali Agha is not [captaincy] material. They’ve forcefully made him captain”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar believes Salman Ali Agha was forcefully made T20I captain.
Rashid Latif: “The way Salman Ali Agha sets the bowling, I’m telling you, even if you gave him Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, or Shoaib Akhtar, he’d still find a way to lose with them too”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rashid Latif has strongly criticised T20I captain Salman Ali Agha’s bowling tactics, claiming he would still lose matches even with the legendary pace trio of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar at his disposal.
Shoaib Akhtar: “Shaheen is not fit. He is not able to bowl over 125 kph”
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Iconic Pakistan seamer Shoaib Akhtar has lashed out at left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi, saying he is not fit as he cannot bowl over 125 kph.
Shoaib Akhtar: “You have made a superstar out of a player who cannot win you a game”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has criticised batsman Babar Azam, saying he is considered a superstar despite not being able to win matches.
