Akram’s ‘different’ stroke of advice to Hafeez

“I think Hafeez should give up bowling now and just concentrate on his batting. Work harder on his batting,” Akram told reporters in  Karachi. 

Hafeez’s bowling action has been found to be illegal for a third time by the International Cricket Council (ICC) last month and he has been suspended from bowling in international cricket on Thursday until he clears a biomechanics test. 

The ICC decision to suspend Hafeez from bowling came this week after the Pakistani allrounder failed his bowling assessment test held in England.

Akram said Hafeez should have taken a decision about his bowling even before the ICC match officials reported him and he failed the bowling test. 

“I think Hafeez does not realise that he has been bowling a lot and when he bowls a lot he tends to get tired which is natural and that is when I think his elbow extension exceeds the 15 degrees extension allowed by the ICC,” Akram said.