Shoaib Akhtar confesses to willingly throwing lethal beamer at MS Dhoni in 2006

On Friday (October 22), former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar courted controversy after he confessed to bowling a ‘deadly beamer’ to Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni through the notorious Faisalabad Test match between India and Pakistan in 2006. He made the contentious remark throughout a chat present on Sports Tak.
The growth got here forward of the much-anticipated T20 match between the 2 nations, which is scheduled to happen on Sunday (October 24). At about 17 minutes and 30 seconds into the programme, Akhtar recounted how his teammate recommended that he bowl a ‘beamer’ on the face of Harbajan Singh through the fourth match within the 2010 Asia Cup. It have to be talked about that Singh had hit the ace quick bowler for a six and bruised his ego.
Shoaib Akhtar then narrated how he had as soon as intentionally tried to injure Mahendra Singh Dhoni through the 2006 Faisalabad Test match. He confessed, “I had made the same mistake with Dhoni in Faisalabad. I had thrown a beamer at him intentionally. Dhoni is such a nice guy and I respect him. I felt very bad about it. Yes, he is a good player who hit me for a few runs. Why did I decide to attack him (with a beamer)? If the ball would have hit Dhoni, he would have been grievously hurt (do-teen-paanch) in 2005 itself.”

(Video Courtesy: Youtube/Sports Tak)During the second innings of the India-Pakistan match, MS Dhoni posted a mammoth private rating of 148 runs on the board. His innings included a complete of 19 fours and 4 sixes. After being brutally hammered by MS Dhoni through the session, an agitated Shoaib Akthar vowed to harm the Indian batsman-wicketkeeper gravely. The footage of the incident has been shared by Cricket Cloud on their Youtube channel. At about 3:58 seconds into the video, Akhtar could possibly be seen throwing a lethal beamer at MS Dhoni at about 156km/hour pace. The Indian cricketer was lucky sufficient to dodge it and escape unharmed.

Video Courtesy: Youtube/Cricket Cloud) It have to be talked about that bowling a beamer is prohibited throughout a cricket match. In the stated supply, the ball doesn’t bounce and is tossed excessive by the bowler. Such a supply has the prospect of inflicting deadly head and facial accidents to a batsman. While most of such beamers are delivered mistakenly, Shoaik Akhtar did it deliberately regardless of being totally conscious of the doable penalties. A no-ball is awarded and the bowler will get a warning from the umpire. On repeating the identical offence through the match, he could be barred from bowling in the remainder of the match.
Shoaib Akhtar and his assist for the Two nation idea
During the programme, Shoaib Akhtar additionally endorsed the bigoted ‘Two nation theory’, which in the end led to the genocide of Hindus and the partition of India. It was first promulgated by Syed Ahmad Khan, the founding father of the Aligarh Muslim University. The idea asserted that Muslims and Hindus type two separate nations that can’t coexist peacefully in a single nation.
The ace quick bowler had remarked, “I will not go deep into it. From the two-nation theory until now, there is a long history. We believe in the two-nation theory, I believe in it. We have an ideology. Ie we start talking about it, then it will go very far.”