Wasim Akram: “Dropping Babar Azam is the need of the hour. Pakistan needs batters who can bat at a strike-rate of around 150”
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Legendary Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram said dropping batsman Babar Azam from the T20I team “is the need of the hour”.
Rao Iftikhar Anjum: “Fast bowlers like Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis are impossible to find again”
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Pakistan Under-19 bowling coach Rao Iftikhar Anjum believes it will be impossible to find any fast bowlers like the legendary duo of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
Mitchell Starc: “Wasim Akram’s still a far better bowler than I am. So as far as I’m concerned he’s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly right up there with bowlers to ever play the game”
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Australia pace spearhead Mitchell Starc insists legendary Pakistan swing king Wasim Akram is “still a far better bowler than I am”, even after overtaking him as the most successful left-arm fast bowler in Test history.
Wasim Akram: “I haven’t talked much about this yet, and I don’t have any inside news, but I knew about it two years ago – cricketers aren’t focusing enough on their fitness”
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Legendary left-arm seamer Wasim Akram has slammed the Pakistan team for not focusing enough on their fitness.
Dale Steyn: “Left-arm swing king”
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Legendary South Africa speedster Dale Steyn has hailed iconic Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram, dubbing him the “left-arm swing king.”
Wasim Akram: “Right now, Shaheen Afridi is your best T20 player. He also has captaincy experience from the PSL. There’s no better option than Shaheen for the T20 format at the moment”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram believes Shaheen Shah Afridi is the best option as T20I captain and should replace Salman Ali Agha.
Wasim Akram: “He doesn’t play red-ball cricket. He’s not going to improve. If he’s not going to play, you don’t want a player in your team who refuses to play red-ball cricket”
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Pakistan fast bowling great Wasim Akram has expressed his frustration at the fact that rapid speedster Haris Rauf refuses to play red-ball cricket regularly.
Wasim Akram: “I was talking to Waqar (Younis), and I asked, how come he hasn’t fixed the run-up in the last four or five years since he’s been playing? He said he doesn’t play red-ball cricket”
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Iconic Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram revealed he spoke to fellow fast bowling legend Waqar Younis about why Haris Rauf has yet to fix his run-up.
Wasim Akram: “He’s unfortunately a run machine as a bowler, and especially against India. I’m not criticising him. The whole country’s criticising him”
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Legendary left-arm seamer Wasim Akram has blasted fast bowler Haris Rauf for leaking too many runs when bowling.
Robin Uthappa: “Wasim Akram was too skillful. He was nuts! Just as he was ambling in to bowl, he lifted his index finger off the ball and then just pushed at it. As the ball is coming to you it goes away. He does like such weird things with the ball”
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Former India batsman Robin Uthappa said legendary Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram “was nuts” and “too skillful” as he did “such weird things with the ball”.
