Overweight, overpaid

The Shoaib Akhtar saga continues with the fast bowler being overlooked for the one-day series in Sri Lanka. If he says he was fit and was denied the chance to make it to the ICC World Twenty20, one wonders if he is suffering from problems that are much more grave than just physical, wonders Humair Ishtiaq in the Pakistan daily Dawn.

Shoaib’s claim that he can play for another five years is another successful attempt to tickle the funny bone, as a look at his statistics shows that his career should have come to an end five years ago. It is his showmanship and the PCB tendency to blow hot and cold over such affairs that has kept him alive off the field.