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Dalmiya backed Akhtar during bowling action scrutiny in 2000: Ex PCB chief

Former BCCI chief Jagmohan Damiya, one of India's biggest cricket administrators, served as the ICC's president from 1997 to 2000.

Former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar (Photo: @shoaib100mph)
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Former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar (Photo: @shoaib100mph)

BS Web Teamagencies New Delhi
A former chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed that had it not been for the help extended by the late ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, fast bowler Shoiab Akhtar's career would have ended in 2000-01.
 
In 1999, the International Cricket Council had told the PCB that speedster Akhtar's bowling action was under scrutiny.
 
Former BCCI chief Damiya, one of India's biggest cricket administrators, served as the ICC's president from 1997 to 2000.
 
"Jagmohan, who had been president of the ICC and was an influential voice, supported us a lot in the Shoaib Akhtar bowling action