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Previous Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar, nonetheless, needed to confront two terrible thrashings against Australia in the 1999 World Cup and against India in the 2003 World Cup.
Shoaib Akhtar was as of late inquired as to whether he was more disillusioned with the misfortune in the 1999 World Cup last against Australia or annihilation against India in the 2003 World Cup. The Rawalpindi Express reacted by saying that the 1999 World Cup was all the more frustrating as it was a last, while the 2003 World Cup conflict against India was only a class stage experience.
Our score was less on that wicket against India: Shoaib Akhtar
“The mistake is there for each match you lose. It was clearly more for 1999, the 2003 World Cup experience against India was a group coordinate,” said Shoaib Akhtar on the YouTube show ‘Cricket Baaz’.
Reviewing the 2003 World Cup experience against India, Shoaib Akhtar said that Pakistan’s score was 25-30 runs less than impressive, thinking about the idea of the try out. He further applauded Sachin Tendulkar who played a heavenly 98-run thump before getting excused off Akhtar’s bowling. The wicket was anything but difficult to the point that Akhtar acknowledged after the match that he could’ve turned to bodyline bowling to make things hard for the batsmen.
“I felt that our score was less on that wicket. We were 25-30 runs less than impressive in light of the fact that the pitch was extremely level yet India played well. Sachin played well overall, he got excused on 98 off my bowling. I understood after that coordinate that when the wicket is so natural, at that point you ought to do bodyline bowling. I ought to have gone just to hit the batsman,” Shoaib Akhtar further said.
Shoaib Akhtar brought up that bowling a short-pitched conveyance at Sachin’s body brought about his excusal. As indicated by the Pakistan veteran, he may have been crushed for several sixes with his strategies however could have additionally gotten a wicket.
“And no more, I would have hit for 2 sixes in an over, so what might have occurred. I could have still gotten a wicket. The equivalent bodyline bowling I did in the subsequent spell, I got Sachin’s wicket. This is the aspect of the cycle that I need to convey to the adolescents, that in the event that nothing is occurring, at that point the batsman has a body. You should break it,” finished up Shoaib Akhtar.
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