ISLAMABAD – Former Pakistan cricketer, Zulqarnain Haider, has accused histeammate, Umar Akmal, of asking him to deliberately underperform in acrucial South Africa ODI in 2010.
Talking about Umar Akmal’s suspension, the wicket-keeper batsman said thathe has been advocating for life bans for such cricketers, saying it’s notsurprising at all for him to hear about the punishment by the PCB.
No, it is not news to me. I am not at all surprised. In fact, these playersshould be banned for life. I have been telling this from my experience.
Reflecting on the incident from 2010, the former cricketer said that UmarAkmal came out with the drinks and asked me to underperform with the bat.
It was a very crucial match and when I was batting, Umar Akmal broughtdrinks for us and told me to underperform. His clear words were: don’t batefficiently.
Angered at Umar’s words, Zulqarnain told him to carry the drinks andperform his own duties and later informed the team management about theincident.
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I told him to only perform his drinks man duty. The matter was also broughtto the team management after the match.
Zulqarnain himself was a troubled cricketer considering he ran away toEngland due to alleged threats when he was only 24. He only representedPakistan in 8 international games including a solitary Test.——————————
It is worth mentioning that it was Umar Akmal’s only 1st year in thenational team when he was allegedly part of such revolts and coups againstcertain players.
