He was first picked to play on his home ground in Rawalpindi during the 2nd Test of the West Indies 1997/98 tour of Pakistan. International career Ĭonsidering his subsequent high profile in cricket, Akhtar's test career started rather modestly. After some struggle, starting his List A career during the 1993/1994 season and his first-class career during the 1994/1995 one, he caught the eye of Majid Khan, then the chief executive of the PCB, and after a good performance for the Pakistan A team's tour of England, in 1996, he was rewarded his maiden Test cap against the West Indies, in 1997. Lacking the money for a bus ticket, he waited for the bus to start and got onto the roof. Beginnings Ī good student, Akhtar was admitted to the Asghar Mall College, but disrupted his studies to attend trials for the PIA team's Karachi division to be held in Lahore. He married Rubab Khan on 11 November 2014. Shoaib's name, which in Arabic means both “the one who brings people together” and “the one who separates”, was chosen by his mother. His father, Mohammad Akhtar, whom Shoaib describes as very religious and “from a hardworking, economically unprivileged family of the Gujjar community”, worked as a night watchman at a petrol station belonging to the Attock oil refinery, and married his mother, Hameeda Awan, when she was still a teenager, and they had five children: four sons, Shoaib being the fourth, followed by a daughter. 3.2 Rehabilitation and final years (2010–2011)Īkhtar was born in the small town of Morgah in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.3.1 Struggle for form and consistent injuries (2007–2009).Akhtar retired from international cricket after the 2011 World Cup.
In 2008, Akhtar was banned for five years for publicly criticising the Pakistan Cricket Board, although in October 2008, the Lahore High Court suspended the ban and Akhtar was selected in the 15-man squad for the Twenty20 Quadrangular Tournament in Canada. However, the ban imposed on him was lifted on appeal.
Akhtar was sent home during a Test match series in Australia in 2005 for alleged poor attitude and a year later received a ban after testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone.
Īkhtar has been involved in several controversies during his career, often accused of unsportsmanlike conduct. He made his Test match debut in November 1997 as an opening fast bowler and played his first One Day International three months later. He was nicknamed the "Rawalpindi Express", in reference to his speed and hometown".
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