Jun 16, 2001 12:19 AM
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Friends I still know the day of Kolkata's (then calcutta) test match between India and Pakistan when Shoaib Akthar with his express delivery clean bowled Rahul Dravid and then on the very next ball he removed the master batsmen Tendulkar for a golden duck.
Since that day I think he became very famous and popular, In those day he was truely in a very great form, he was just like a Express train and was rightly named as The Rawalpindi express, also he was a great contender for the world cup 99. His speciality was his pace due to strong physics which had terrified every one and the pace was almost around 96 miles/hr, he truely had won a great fame for his this performance.
But now he is not the same and that popular, Due to some extra efforts to reach the 100 miles milestone he has damaged his arm and think this should not be his aim. Also due to that he most of the time chucks the ball and was clearly caught chucking the ball against the New-zealanders I this controversary has taken the intrest of the People from him.
At last I would say that for this time being he had lost his fame and if he want to make a return then his aim should be to play matches for the country and he should bowl considering the game as Cricket and not baseball.