Former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar, affectionately known by fans as the Rawalpindi Express, has shared an incident that happened to him as a child.
In international cricket, in the 21st century, Australia’s Glenn McGrath, Fred Lee, Sri Lanka’s Saminda Vaas and New Zealand’s Shane Bond are some of the most influential Pakistani batsmen in the world.
In particular, at the 2003 World Cup in South Africa against England, Akhtar set a world record of 161.3 km / h. He shared about the background of the doctor warning that the owner could not even get up and walk as a child at such speed.
In an interview with Australia’s popular The Age magazine, he said that I could not walk properly until I was 6 years old. The doctor who examined me at the time said that I could not run as fast as other children and was half disabled. The pain in my joints at that time would have been even harder to think of now.
But Akhtar did not care a bit about it all and continued to practice due to his love for cricket. History has it that he took 444 wickets in international cricket and became the most prolific fast bowler in the world.