In a surprising revelation, veteran quick bowler Wasim Akram accused his former Pakistan teammate Salim Malik of treating him like a servant early in his profession.
Akram, who made his worldwide debut in 1984, stated senior teammate Malik gave him massages and cleaned his garments and sneakers.
Akram has made this disclosure in his biography ‘Sultan: A Memoir’.
“He would take advantage of my junior position. He was negative, selfish and treated me like a servant. He demanded that I massage him, he ordered me to clean his clothes and shoes,” learn an excerpt from the biography .
“I was furious when some young members of the team in Rameez, Tahir, Mohsin, Shoaib Mohammed invited me to nightclubs.” Akram performed underneath Malik’s captaincy from 1992 to 1995 and there have been studies that the 2 gamers weren’t on good phrases.
Malik, nonetheless, denied the allegations, saying that Akram had written all this to advertise his guide.
“I used to be making an attempt to name him however he didn’t reply. I’ll ask him what was responsible for what he wrote,” Malik was quoted as saying by Pakistani media.
He stated, ‘If I used to be narrow-minded, I’d not have given him an opportunity to bowl. I’ll ask him why he wrote such a remark about me.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
