Akhtar said the Indian tailenders and Muttiah Muralitharan were scared of him.
Ex-Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar's comments about the Indian tailenders wasn't welcomed by fans on Twitter. Akhtar had said the Indian tailenders were so scared of him that they would plead him to not hit them and were ready to get out.
Speaking to Pakistani presenter Sawera Pasha on her YouTube show ‘Cric Cast’, Akhtar said, “There were many who told me not to hit them. Muralitharan was one. Many Indian tailenders would tell me ‘don’t hit us, we have families’. Muralitharan would ask me to bowl slow, and he would get out."
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“Yousuf would ask me to hit him. He would say ‘break his fingers I can’t play his spin’. I bowled Muralitharan a few bouncers but he said ‘don’t do this to me I will die if the ball hits me’."
Akhtar was heavily roasted for his comments and some of the fans reminded him of the six by Lakshmipathy Balaji on his bowling during the 2004 tour.
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