Hyderabad: Controversial Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who terrified top batsmen during his playing career with pace and bounce, revealed that the Indian tail-enders begged him not to bowl bouncers and hurt them.
During an interaction with Sawera Pasha on the Youtube show Cric Cast, Akhtar spoke at length how he inflicted fear amongst the opposing batsmen. He revealed that there were many batsmen who asked him not to bowl fast. “There were a lot of batsmen like that. Muralitharan was there, a lot of players from India, all tail-enders. They used to ask me to get them out but not hit them as it would hit them hard. They used to say that they have a wife and kids and that their parents wouldn’t like it,” Akhtar said.
“Yousuf used to ask me to hit him (Muttiah Muralitharan), to break his fingers as he couldn’t play him. I had bowled a couple of bouncers to Murali and he told me not to do it else he will die. He told me that he was very fragile. So I used to feel shy but Yousuf wanted me to hit him,” he added.
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