Wasim Akram Biography  

Asim Akram (born 3 June 1966) is a Pakistani cricket commentator, educator, former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan cricket team. He is widely regarded as the best bowler of all time. A fast left-arm bowler who must play with tremendous pace, he has represented Pakistan in test cricket and One Day International (ODI) matches. In October 2013, Wasim Akram became the best Pakistani cricketer to be named in the Test World XI commemorating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanac.Akram is considered one of the best left-arm fast bowlers in Pakistan's history, he holds the sector record for maximum wickets in list A cricket with 881, and he is 2nd compared to Sri Lankan bowler Muttiya Muralitharan in terms of ODI wickets, with 502 overall. He is considered one of the founders and arguably the best representative of reverse swing bowling. He is often referred to as the"Sultan of Swing".

He became the top bowler to reach the five-hundred-wicket mark in ODI cricket during the 2003 World Cup. In 2002, Wisden released its only list of good gamers of all time. Wasim turned in the rankings because the best bowler in ODI of all time, with a score of 1223, Five, ahead of Allan Donald, Imran Khan, Waqar Younis, Joel Garner, Glenn McGrath and Muralitharan. Wasim took 23 4-wickets in 356 ODI suits. On 30 September 2009, Akram was one of five new entrants inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.He was a bowling teacher at the Kolkata Knight Riders. However, he received a crash from the placement for IPL 6, mentioning the need to spend more time with his family in Karachi, and he took another stint with IPL 2017; and was replaced through Lakshmipati Balaji.

He worked as a director and bowling instructor for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League until he left to sign up for Multan Sultans in August 2017.In October 2018, he moved to the seven-member Cricket Advisory Committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board. In November 2018, he joined the PSL franchise, Karachi Kings, as president.

Wasim Akram was born on 3 June 1966 in a Punjabi Muslim community in Lahore.Akram's father, Chaudhary Muhammad Akram, was originally from a village near Amritsar, who moved to Kamonki in Pakistan's Punjab after the partition of India in 1947.At the age of 30, Akram turned into a person with diabetes. "I take into account what a surprise it turned out to be, because I became a healthy athlete, who did not have diabetes in the family, so I did not count on it in any way. It seemed normal that this happened to me as soon as I turned 30, however it turned into an absolutely annoying time and the doctors said it could cause this."  Since then, he has sought to participate in various anti-diabetes campaigns.Akram married Huma Mufti in 1995. They had sons from a marriage of 14 years: Tahmur (born in 1996) and Akbar (born in 2000). Huma died of multiple organ failures at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India, on 25 October 2009. 

On July 7, 2013, it was announced that Akram was engaged to Australian Shaniera Thompson, whom he met during a trip to Melbourne in 2011. Akram married Shanier on August 12, 2013, announcing that he had started a new existence on Happy Word. He is quoted as saying: "I married Shaniera in Lahore in a simple ceremony and this is the beginning of a new life for me, my spouse and my children."He moved from Lahore to Karachi with his wife and children. On September 3, 2014, the couple tweeted that they were watching their first child—the third child from Akram's circle of relatives. On December 27, 2014, Shaniera gave birth to baby Isla Sabine Rose Akram in Melbourne.

Akram began his ODI career in New Zealand in Pakistan in 1984 under the command of Zahir Abbas.[ He gained notoriety for taking five wickets in his third ODI against Australia at the 1985 Benson & Hedges World Cup. His wickets included those of Kepler Wessels, Dean Jones and Captain Allan Border. Wasim Akram is currently Pakistan's top usher in one-day international cricket

Akram became a giant in the 1992 Cricket World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand, while Pakistan got the match. In the final, against England, his innings hit 19 balls in 33 overs, leading Pakistan to score 249 for six wickets. Akram then took the wicket of Ian Botham at the start of England's batting innings; and, when he later hit the bowling attack again with the ball opposite, he produced a spell of bowling that resulted in Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis being bowled in consecutive deliveries in the same over. His performances earned him the Man of the Match award in the final. In 1993, Akram undertook consecutive four-wicket hauls towards Sri Lanka in Sharjah, in which 7 of the 8 wickets were either LBW or bowled.

In the 1992-1993 all-South Africa international series (tied with Pakistan, West Indies and South Africa), he took 5 wickets against South Africa and got his two-hundredth wicket in his 143rd appearance. Akram took forty-six wickets in calendar year 1993, his first year in Odis. Its average was much less than 19, with an economical price of much less than 3.Eight runs matched more than. In 1993, he made six runs with four wickets, the most of any year. At the 1996 Cricket World Cup, Akram ignored the quarter-final match against India, which Pakistan inappropriately lost and was eliminated from the World Cup. Wasim's first-class career was often marred by controversy, not least in the Caribbean in April 1993, during his first tour as captain of Pakistan. During a crew stop in Grenada, he was arrested along with three teammates-Waqar Younis, Aakib Javed and Mushtaq Ahmed—and two British tourists; he disguised himself as a marijuana possession suspect. Between 1994 and 1996, he took eighty-four wickets in 39 overs. From January 1992 to December 1997, Akram played 131 matches and scored 198 goals at an average of 21.86, with 14 of the four goals in Odis.

.Akram has won 17 Man of the Match awards in 104 tests. He has scored four hat-tricks in world cricket— in ODIs and two in tests. As a result, he shares the record for most global health tips with Lasith Malinga.He finished with 22 Man of the Match awards in Odis. In 199 ODI match wins, he took 326 wickets at under-19s apiece with a run of 3.70 and took 18 pulls with four wickets. His 257th, which is now not out against Zimbabwe in 1996, is the best innings by a batsman at number 8 in tests. He hit 12 sixes in that game, and it stands to this day because it is the record for the maximum number of sixes used by any contestant in a single innings test.

Prior to his retirement, he was certainly one of the eight senior players eliminated for the Sharjah Cup in April 2003, and was then omitted from the Pakistan squad for the next Bank of Alfala Cup series.

Outside of cricket

Book

He co-wrote his autobiography, Wasim (1998), with British sports journalist Patrick Murphy.

Modeling

Akram turned into a version at Pantene Wedding Fashion Week 2011, which was the occasion for Style 360. 

Business

In 2018, Akram joined Cricingif as the Director of Stakeholder Engagement.

In 1992, after he was bowled by an English batsman, allegations of ball tampering began to appear in the English media, although no video evidence of foul play was ever found. Akram and Eunice were able to extract a huge amount of energy from both the new and old cricket balls. The ability to pitch the opposite swing became extremely unknown in England and throughout the world of international cricket throughout this period.A much bigger controversy arose when critics claimed he was involved in match-fixing. The Commission of Inquiry was set up by the Pakistan Cricket Board, headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Malik Mohammed Qayyum.

 The judge wrote in his document that:

This fee feels that everything is not good here and that Wasim Akram is not always on top. He is not currently cooperating with the commission. The easiest way is to give Wasim Akram the benefit of the doubt after Ata-ur-Rehman changed his testimony in suspicious cases that he was no longer found responsible for match-fixing. You can't say he's above suspicion.