The phone line from Australia to Karachi is not the greatest, but there is no mistaking the voice of possibly the most skilful left-arm fast bowler cricket has ever seen. Wasim Akram’s tone is seemingly always sunny, smiling almost, belying what has been a turbulent life on and off the field, and the message he is imparting.
He has written a new autobiography, Sultan: A Memoir, containing parts shocking in their frankness. “I’m a bit anxious about the book,” he says, “but I think once it is out, I’ll be kind of over it. I’m anxious because at my age, I’m 56 and I’ve been diabetic for 25 years, it is just stress, you know . . . it was tough to revisit all
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