Akram could bowl every ball in the game but hadn’t yet learnt the art of thinking a batsman out, didn’t therefore know which ball to bowl when and to whom. Imran, as captain, was now well past his best as a bowler but still knew what to bowl to get a batsman out. And so, ball by ball, Imran would guide Akram and as he himself said, a day came when he was at mid-off and the game seemed to have stopped. He looked at his bowler, who was at the top of his run-up and said, ‘What happened?’ ‘Skipper, you haven’t told me which ball to bowl’ was apparently Akram’s response. Imran could do this because
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