When Shoaib Akhtar called cricket a fraud, he said- I respect Sachin…

New Delhi. Last year, during the World Cup 2023, Shoaib Akhtar had called cricket a fraud. Many players had performed brilliantly. Quinton De Kock scored 4 centuries while Rachin Ravindra scored 3 centuries. But in the end Australia won the title by defeating India. Shoaib Akhtar had said that the way players are scoring centuries in ODI cricket today. They are not able to put it first.

During the World Cup, Shoaib Akhtar, while talking on a YouTube channel, had said, “In today's time, no one will score a hundred with one ball. Today's cricket is fraud. Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Shane Warne and Saqlain Mushtaq, you can score a century in front of them and that too with one ball. That's why I respect players like Sachin Tendulkar, Inzamam-ul-Haq. Because he used to score a hundred with one ball.”

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Akhtar had said that now cricket is being played with soft ball. There are also 6 fielders outside the line. What kind of cricket is this? I am not saying that today's cricketers are not playing well. I believe that play in that era. But today cricketers are making money. His fan following is in crores. I feel good from someone's success. I am such a person.”

Let us tell you that last time a total of 40 centuries were scored in the World Cup 2023. Before this, so many centuries had not been scored in any ODI World Cup. For this reason, Akhtar believes that it has become easy to score a hundred in today's time. Akhtar said that Virat Kohli had scored the most centuries for India. Virat had scored a total of 3 centuries.

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