In a recent interview, Akhtar was asked if there was any player who would ask him to not hit him. In his reply, Akhtar recalled how Muttiah Muralitharan would ask him to not send bouncers his way. 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.”The former right-arm fast bowler further recalled how Mohammad Yousuf would ask him to bowl bouncers to Muralitharan. He would say ‘break his fingers I can’t play his spin’.

Source: Hindustan Times August 21, 2020 01:13 UTC