Photo / PhotosportOPINION:Good old Shoaib Akhtar, the fastest bowler in history and self-appointed emissary from mighty Pakistan, putting little old New Zealand in its place for daring to reprimand their quarantine-breaking cricketers. That's because Akhtar was so unloved by his employers, the Pakistan Cricket Board, that they made it public. Shoaib Akhtar has chosen to chuck plenty of criticism at New Zealand's handling of the Pakistan cricket team's current tour of the country. You wonder whether they need Akhtar either. They didn't back in 2012 when Akhtar was ruled out of the World T20 tournament, the subject of an extraordinary statement from the PCB: "Shoaib Akhtar will miss next month's World Twenty20 tournament due to a genital infection," it said.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 28, 2020 04:07 UTC