One has heard Shoaib Akhtar's story many a time, where he said that he saw Sachin Tendulkar shivering while facing him during the 2003 World Cup. Now the former pacer has come up with another story.
Pakistan bowler Shoaib Akhtar was one of the greats that Pakistan produced, but since his retirement has a tendency of giving rather unbelievable statements. This time around Akhtar has claimed that he turned down a 175,000 pound contract to play county cricket for Nottinghamshire so that he could fight in the Kargil War.
Pakistan has the best win-loss ratio in England amongst the teams from the sub-continent and the third-best overall after Australia and West Indies.
The BCCI is widely known as the world's richest cricket board, but to utter surprise of many, it has not cleared cricketers' dues for close to 10 months now, according to a report in the Indian Express.
Opener Jonny Bairstow smashed 82 off 41 balls as England beat Ireland by four wickets in the second One Day International to take an unassailable 2-0 series lead on Saturday.
Jonny Bairstow's quickfire 82 in half as many deliveries proved enough to help England beat Ireland by four wickets in the second of their One Day Internationals at Southampton on Saturday.
Smith said the lack of cricket is a financial time bomb for the country, who have also lost their major sponsor in the last few months.