‘Salim Malik treated me like a servant’ – Wasim Akram accuses his former captain of mistreatment during their playing days

Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram‘s autobiography is bringing out a lot of secrets since its launch. In the early days after its launch, fans came to know about his struggle with drug abuse after his retirement from the game. Now, in the book, the former left-arm pacer has dropped a massive bombshell on his former skipper Salim Malik.

Akram has said that Malik used to take advantage of seniority. Wasim added that Malik was selfish and treated him like a servant and on a few occasions, used to demand massages. The Lahore player, Akram further added that Malik used to ask him to clean his shoes.

“He would take advantage of my junior status. He was negative, selfish and treated me like a servant. He demanded I massage him; he ordered me to clean his clothes and boots. I was angry when some of the younger team members in Ramiz, Tahir, Mohsin, Shoaib Mohammad invited me to nightclubs,” read an excerpt from Akram’s book.

Wasim Akram never saw me eye to eye: Salim Malik

A while back, Malik had said that Wasim wouldn’t see him eye to eye during their playing. Malik claimed that Wasim and Waqar Younis weren’t happy after he became the captain of the team.

“When I would go to Wasim to hand him the ball, he would snatch it from me, because he wasn’t talking to me. There was anger because I had become captain, whereas Wasim and Waqar wanted it. Both of them weren’t speaking to me, and yet we won the series. Wasim would snatch the ball from me and walk away, and I would walk along with him. Waz wasn’t talking to me,” Malik had said earlier this year in an interview with a local media channel.