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Former Pakistan star Shoaib Akhtar is known as a world-class fast bowler. He was the bowler who ruled world cricket at the beginning of the 21st century, beating Australia’s Glenn McGrath, Fred Lee, Sri Lanka’s Saminda Vaas and New Zealand’s Shane Bond to top the world’s top batsmen.
In fact, many quality batsmen will be a little scared to face his balls, which surpass Glenn McGrath and Fred Lee in throwing fastballs. Fans still celebrate him as the “Rawalpindi Express” who bowled like an express.
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World record for speed:
At that time, batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting set a world record by amassing several thousand runs and scoring hundreds. Similarly, Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne set a world record for the most number of wickets taken by a batsman.
Shoaib Akhtar, who felt he could set a world record by throwing the fastest ball as a fast bowler in such a situation, has been trying to do so since the day he stepped foot in international cricket. He eventually set a world record of 161.3 km / h in the 2003 World Cup against England in South Africa. Besides, he would love to see quality batsmen, including Sachin and Sehwag in general, deliberately throw bouncer balls with high speed and let the heat of the match fly.
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The doctor who said he could not get up and walk:
In fact, in modern cricket, you can not see a lightning fast bowler bowling at such an astonishing pace. He shared the background of a doctor who warned him that he could not even get up and walk as a child as he was known for running so fast and stunningly fast bowling.
He spoke to Australia’s popular The Age magazine about this. “Every morning I walk in the bathroom as if crawling in pain. Even now my legs are locked. It was in this kind of pain that my cricket career began. In fact, 1999 was the year I was painless. I could not even walk properly until I was 6 years old.
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The doctor who examined me at the time told my mother, “This boy is half disabled. He said he could not run as fast as other children. ” The pain in my joints at that time is hard to think of now. ”“ Then I took an ice bath and learned to sleep. At those times my teammates would often wake me up saying “Get up early it’s 4am”.
I tried to cover my wound in those moments. Because in my early days there was a lot of competition to play cricket. And the media discussed why I don’t play often. “
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Akhtar falsifies prediction:
The doctor found that Shoaib Akhtar had defects in his joints when he was born naturally and told his mother that he could not run as fast as the others. But he did not worry about it because of his love for cricket, he continued to train and became a world-renowned fast bowler in the course of time and created many achievements.
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Shoaib Akhtar, who falsified the doctor’s prediction that he would not even get up and walk at a young age, has set a world record by throwing the fastest cricket ball in the world today. He has also taken 444 wickets in international cricket and will no doubt be hailed as a tremendous fast bowler as long as cricket exists. But Shoaib Akhtar, who retired 10 years ago but still feels pain every day, said he would soon have an operation in Melbourne for that.
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