On Sunday (September 10), a video of Shoaib Akhtar went viral on social media whereby he was heard boasting about his deliberate try to trigger life-threatening harm to former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.
“I want to reveal this today that I really wanted to injure Sachin in that match…I was determined to hurt Sachin at any cost in that match…And I kept at it although Inzamam-ul-Haq asked to bowl in front of the wickets,” the previous Pakistani pacer confessed to his ‘unsportsmanlike behaviour.’
Without any seen indicators of regret, he continued, “So I deliberately hit on his helmet and even thought that he (Sachin) would be dead…I saw the replay and found that the ball hit on his forehead…I then tried to injure him again.”
What if @shoaib100mph needed to okay!ll @sachin_rt with bouncers aiming his head? Let’s play cricket @BCCI. Cricket is past boundaries for Indians.pic.twitter.com/rkQ2S7mlvf
— Pakistan Untold (@pakistan_untold) September 10, 2023
Shoaib Akhtar was speaking concerning the notorious third Test match performed between India and Pakistan on the National Stadium in 2006. He made the contentious claims throughout an interview with Sportskeeda in June 2022. A clip of the interview has now gone viral on social media.
Shoaib Akhtar confesses to intentionally bowling a beamer to MS Dhoni
This was not the primary time that the previous Pakistani pacer had confessed to intentionally hurting Indian gamers throughout a cricket match.
While speaking to Sports Tak in October 2021, Shoaib Akhtar conceded that he deliberately bowled a ‘deadly beamer’ to Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the course of the Faisalabad Test match between India and Pakistan in 2006.
The Pakistani pacer stated, “I had made the same mistake with Dhoni in Faisalabad. I had thrown a beamer at him intentionally. Dhoni is such a nice guy and I respect him. I felt very bad about it. Yes, he is a good player who hit me for a few runs. Why did I decide to attack him (with a beamer)? If the ball would have hit Dhoni, he would have been grievously hurt (do-teen-paanch) in 2005 itself.”
It should be talked about that bowling a beamer is against the law throughout a cricket match. In the stated supply, the ball doesn’t bounce and is tossed excessive by the bowler. Such a supply has the prospect of inflicting deadly head and facial accidents to a batsman.
While most of such beamers are delivered mistakenly, Shoaik Akhtar did it deliberately regardless of being absolutely conscious of the doable penalties. A no-ball is awarded and the bowler will get a warning from the umpire.
On repeating the identical offence in the course of the match, he could be barred from bowling in the remainder of the match.
