Akram slams Shoaib, PCB for all the 'drama'Slamming Shoaib Akhtar and the PCB for brokering a deal to suspend the bowler's five-year ban to facilitate his IPL stint, former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram described the entire episode was a "drama" which could make a "hit Bollywood comedy".
A Pakistan Cricket Board-appointed tribunal had upheld the five-year-ban on Akhtar but suspended it for one month besides the PCB Chief Naseem Ashraf also dropped a defamation suit against the fast bowler through political intervention.
Akram said he was baffled by the way PCB allowed Akhtar to weave his way out of the mess he had landed himself in by using political help.
"First you ban him and then you suspend it to facilitate something. After that, Naseemsaab and Shoaib are on TV, a politician mediates to sort out the matter and then Naseemsaab drops his case. I think a good Bollywood director can make a hit comedy film," Akram said.
"And, Shoaib should eventually join politics. He will really do well there," added Akram sarcastically. Akram did not stop there and said "publicity-hungry" Akhtar will be all fired up in the Indian Premier League.
"Once Shoaib sees the crowd and, of course, the babes around, I think he'll be able to perform. It will take him just a couple of games to get fit and since he has to bowl just four overs in a match, he doesn't need much fitness," Akram said of the fast bowler who was bought for USD 425,000 by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders.
Source http://www.cricketnext.com/news/akram-slams-shoaib-pcb-for-all-the-drama/31380-13.html
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