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When a charged-up Shoaib Akhtar roughed up Liam Plunkett on Test debut
"I was marking my run up before the Test and he just smiled and said ‘I’m gonna kill you’"
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"I was marking my run up before the Test and he just smiled and said ‘I’m gonna kill you’"
"I could see Shoaib losing it and losing it and losing it"
"I will sledge Akhtar and you just laugh at him"
"You brought the heat brotherman!"
“I would have lured him into driving"
"I would say, ‘job well done, guys’"
"I knew where exactly his injuries were"
"Shoaib’s pace, fire and hostility cared little for the reputations of Delhi’s awesome top order"
"Growing up in Pakistan, you develop a certain sense of injustice over time"
Shoaib at his peak within a peak