Bollywood bad boy paints the town red
Shoaib is causing quite a stir in South African. The man is spending most of his time chasing the Bollywood girls. In another article in the Natal Mercury, Shoaib was thrown out of a Durban hotel when he urinated in a flower pot in the Hotels reception area.
Now we all know that Shoaib is the spoilt blue eyed boy of the PCB but it’s time the PCB took action against Shoaib. He is now becoming a disgrace.
Shoaib is a fool but this is hardly something new. When he was in England playing for some two bit Irish club he spent just about every night in the clubs trying to pull birds. Shoaib is our version of footballer George Best. When he's fit and focused he can blow away anybody. But he's letting all that talent go to waste and in sport if you don't look after yourself it's downhill all the way.
We should only include him in our squads if he's in shape and hungry for success. I expect he'll be ok for the World Cup because he'll be wanting the glory but after that I would write him off. This idiot is going to waste his career the way he is headed.
^ agreed....
let him do what he wants to do in his free time. if he wants to hang out with sunjaby dutt and drink whiskey or go clubbin..so be it.
when he`s on the field..he is a tiger...thats what matters.people need to geta life instead of spending their time beating up on a dude having fun.
you only live once...its upto him to decide how he wants to live his life
Sherly,
you're only half right. If you want to play at the top level you have to look after yourself, whisky, clubbing, cocaine etc will end this guy's career prematurely. Did you see Shoaiby trying to bowl fast carrying an extra couple of stones weight?
:k:
Not exactly the sign of a proffesional cricketer. He’ll be in AA soon.
Maybe he’ll be able to see 3 stumps instead of four !! 
is Shoaib ko tu Sunjey BABA hee jotey lagaeey ga tu theek ho ga yee aawara insan :)
yeah okay he has put on some pounds but thats something he has to look after himself.look at it this way,if he still comes out and blows away the opposition..no one should care if he`s drank whiskey the night before.also,if his performance isent good..he will be out of the team..he knows that as well.
i think shoaib is a fun loving character..good to see.if the world was full of players like mike atherton,rahul dravid,or any of the south africans..then cricket would be a boring game indeed.
Sherlock,
I'm Shoaib's biggest fan. You can check my comments a while back when everybody was saying chuck him out of the WC squad and I said we needed him coz on his day he can go through a side single-handed.
But fact is, for a sportsman to be successful for a sustained period of time they have to look after themselves otherwise it's over too soon. You think Pete Sampras is out partying every night? You think he'd have won those championships by getting fat?
Shoaib has already under-achieved for somebody with his talent and he won't last much longer the way he's going. I still say he'll do well at this WC but after that don't count on seeing much more of him.
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Shoaib goes off in a sulk
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While Pakistan were having the stuffing painfully picked out of them at Kingsmead yesterday, one of their most explosive and valuable players sulked in luxury at a beachfront hotel.
Officially, Shoaib Akhtar was not playing in the first Test against South Africa because of a knee injury. Officially, he was back in Pakistan receiving medical treatment.
Unofficially, Shoaib looked out from the pages of a Durban newspaper on Friday. To his left stood Amitabh Bachchan, the brightest of the Bollywood stars who were in town to present a concert yesterday to the world’s biggest Asian diaspora.
The team management and the Pakistan Cricket Board have played King Canute on the issue, commanding it to go away by refusing to countenance it. But late on Friday night, Brigadier KM Nasir (retired), the manager, could stand it no more.
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‘I want nothing to do with Shoaib Akhtar,’ he fumed at a persistent reporter. ‘Cricket has made him a rich man, and he can do as he pleases.’
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Which is exactly what Shoaib seems to be doing, swanning about Durban with movie stars and maintaining a conspicuous presence in the city’s nightclubs.
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‘He knows how to get down, and his knees looked just fine to me,’ said a female admirer who shared the dancefloor with the Rawalpindi Express, who, as a wag had it in the Kingsmead pressbox yesterday, had been redeployed as a goods train.
The real source of Shoaib’s pain may be a brewing feud in the Pakistan camp between current captain Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, who is said to have his heart set on leading the team at next year’s World Cup.
Shoaib is a Wasim acolyte, and may well have decided to go on strike until his will is done.
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None of which was obvious from the puerile batting Pakistan deemed fit for human consumption yesterday. Younis Khan and Abdul Razzaq engineered DIY dismissals with criminally reckless hook shots, while Yousuf Youhana rabbit-punched a catch to third man.
Mornantau Hayward needed pure pace and nothing else to take five for 56 as Pakistan were dismissed for 161 - 207 runs behind in their first innings. He had two more wickets in Pakistan’s follow-on by the time bad light forced the close with the touring side on 218 for eight, a scant 11 runs ahead with two days to play.
Hayward was occasionally wild and, like all fast bowlers, is generally woolly. Much, in fact, like Shoaib. Except in one important respect: he was there when his team needed him.
Knee injury was an excuse for Shoaib to get away from Test match.
'He knows how to get down, and his knees looked just fine to me.
Ahaan, Female Admirer dancer, says everything dude. He gotta lap-dance. 
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*Originally posted by Mr Xtreme: *
But fact is, for a sportsman to be successful for a sustained period of time they have to look after themselves otherwise it's over too soon. You think Pete Sampras is out partying every night? You think he'd have won those championships by getting fat?
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well shoaib isent out partying all night - but the press never reports the nights that he stays home do they?
shoaib has done a good job but he hasnt been handled well by the likes of waqar younis and the selectors. he has underachieved but he has also managed to win games single handedly for us during the last 3 years - me point is only to say that some of what happens around shoaib is exagerrated because some journalists are simply out looking for gossip and some are just jealous.
i also heard dat he waz kaught w/amitab takin pikz in night klub when he waz drunk
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*Originally posted by Jaan Lewaa: *
i also heard dat he waz kaught w/amitab takin pikz in night klub when he waz drunk
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You jealous? ;)