Best XI of the most selfish cricketers
The names in this list include several legends of the game.
11. Shoaib Akhtar
Shoaib Akhtar was breathtakingly fast. When on the song, he was an irresistible force and sight to behold. But, Shoaib was equally difficult to manage due to his off the field shenanigans.
Akhtar, who is widely revered as the Rawalpindi Express, was often accused of faking injuries or pulling out of a fixture due to either a rift with his captain or the team management. One such instance when this thing came to light was during the third Test of the India-Pakistan series in Rawalpindi back in 2004 when Akhtar did not take the field on the third day after he complained of issues with his rib-cage. In the absence of Shoaib, Dravid grounded the hapless Pakistan bowling attack to the dust, racking up his career-best score of 270.
Matters came to a head when Shoaib, seemingly unfazed by the ‘injury’ tonked the Indian attack to all corners of the ground, raising questions around the veracity of his claims of being injured on the previous day. Rumors abound that Shoaib had had a fallout with captain Inzamam-ul-Haq regarding the field placements, something which Akhtar repeatedly refuted.
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