There has been a trend in Pakistan cricket where former cricketers have lashed out at fellow teammates after retirement.  It happens as players dig up stories from past incidents and share them with the public which leads to fights and bad-mouthing. Recently former Pakistan player Aamir Sohail did the same and criticized Pakistani’s legendary fast bowler Wasim Akram.

Aamir  Sohail was a Test match mainstay for Pakistan. He revealed that the Pakistani team did not win a single ICC World Cup after 1992 because of Wasim Akram. Aamir states the legendary Wasim Akram’s ‘captaincy drama’ was amongst the main reason behind the team’s poor performance.

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Sohail had stated that after the 1992 WC win, the Pakistan Cricket Board was always chaos in before the major ICC tournament. He believes during that time, the chatter was to remove whoever was there and put Wasim Akram in the charge.

“It’s very simple. Put the 1992 World Cup to one side and talk about the 1996 World Cup. In 1995, Ramiz Raja was captain. Saleem Malik was the captain before that, he was very successful and if he could have spent one more year as captain then Wasim would not have been leading the side,” Aamir said.

“If you look at what happened till 2003, there was this persistence before every World Cup to remove the captain and put Wasim Akram in that role,” he added.

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Wasim Akram reacted to Sohail’s criticism and expressed his disappointment at the same. He shares how hearing such negative comments makes him depressed.  Wasim Akram was quoted saying “I get depressed when I hear such negative things being said about me. I retired from cricket 17 years ago but people still take my name to further their own interests.”