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Gun attack on Wasim Akram in Karachi

Wednesday, 5 August 2015


Former Pakistan cricket team captain Wasim Akram has been shot at while travelling in his car to the National Stadium in Karachi on Wednesday.
He is safe and the nature or motive behind the attack is yet to known, reports ESPNcricinfo.
Akram told Pakistan television channel Express News that he was "in shock" and that he had noted the car number and given it to the police.
"Wasim was driving himself, and the car next to him tried to jam his car to one side and opened fire. He did not get hit. He is now at the National Stadium, dealing with police formalities," Arsalan Hyder, Akram's manager confirmed.
Akram was in Karachi to work with emerging fast bowlers at a training camp at the National Stadium.
Akram, 49, made his international debut with a one-day international against New Zealand in 1984 and was rated as one of the all-time great left-arm fast bowlers.
He took 414 wickets in 104 test matches and another 502 wickets in 356 one-day internationals before retiring soon after the 2003 World Cup.
After quitting cricket, Akram became a sports commentator and started coaching Pakistani bowlers.
-SS