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In a surprise revelation, speed legend Wasim Akram has accused his former Pakistani teammate Saleem Malik of treating him like a servant early in his career. Akram, who made his international debut in 1984, said senior teammate Malik had him massaged and his clothes and boots cleaned. Akram made the revelations in his biography ‘Sultan: A Memoir’. “He would take advantage of my junior status. He was negative, selfish and treated me like a servant. He demanded I massage him, ordered me to clean his clothes and boots,” read an excerpt from the biography.
“I was angry when some of the younger team members in Ramiz, Tahir, Mohsin, Shoaib Mohammad invited me to nightclubs.” Akram played under the captaincy of Malik from 1992 to 1995 and there were reports that the two players were not on good terms.
However, Malik denied the allegations and said that Akram wrote all of them to promote his book.
“I tried to call him but he didn’t answer. I will ask him what was the reason for writing what he did,” Malik told Pakistani media.
“If I was narrow-minded I wouldn’t have given him the chance to bowl. I’ll ask him why he made such comments about me.”
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