Nazir had more talent than Sehwag but Indian was more brainy: Akhtar

TIL Desk Sports/ Former pacer Shoaib Akhtar believes that Virender Sehwag”s Pakistani contemporary, Imran Nazir, was more talented than the aggressive Indian but didn”t have his brain and was also let down by the country”s cricket administration. The 44-year-old believes Pakistan, in general, did not take good care of the talent it had.

“I don”t think Imran Nazir had the brain that Sehwag had. I don”t think Sehwag had the talent that Imran Nazir had. There is no comparison with regards to talent. We tried to contain him a little,” Akhtar told local media. “When he hit a brutal hundred against India in a side match, I asked them to play Imran Nazir consistently but they didn”t listen.”

Nazir played only eight Tests for Pakistan, scoring 427 runs and featured in 79 ODIs to score 1895 runs. Sehwag, on the other hand, scored 8586 Test runs from 104 matches and had 8273 ODI runs from 251 matches. Criticising the Pakistan cricket establishment, the Rawalpindi Express said it did not nurture the players it had.