Lahore: Former captain of the national cricket team Wasim Akram slammed the allegations against former fellow cricketers.
Revealing in his autobiography, Waseem Akram wrote that Rashid Latif opened a trail of fixing allegations to gain attention. The former captain was an expert in lobbying. would do
He told a British organization in an interview in July 2000 that in the Lord's Test in 1996, he was offered 15 thousand dollars for scoring less than 300 runs for the Pakistan team. Maybe Hoi was also the captain in Homgar, why did Rashid Latif not tell me? Why not report to the manager? Shockingly, he told Justice Qayyum, he used to come up with similar stories whenever he needed attention.
On the charge of not winning the World Cup in 1996 and 1999, Wasim Akram wrote that he was announced as the captain for the DMC Trophy in Toronto, due to lobbying by coach Wasim Raja and new selectors Ramiz Raja, Naushad Ali and Abdul Raqib. Zombie'' (scary) persona brought in Aamir Sohail.
At the time of World Cup 2003, Waqar Younis was not at his peak, he did not even get a place in the playing XI, so there was no logic in the decision to retain him as the captain, with the support of the then chairman PCB Tawqir Zia. This was possible, in the same way Shoaib Akhtar also talked in Tawkir Zia's ear that his own doctor Taseef Razak would be with him.