Akram tweeted on Wednesday that he got the “shock of his life” when he watched the video and urged the PCB to delete the video and “apologise” for leaving Imran out of it.
“After long flights and hours of transit before reaching Sri Lanka, I got the shock of my life when I watched PCB’s short clip on the history of Pakistan cricket minus the great Imran Khan… political differences apart but Imran Khan is an icon of world cricket and developed Pakistan into a strong unit in his time and gave us a pathway… PCB should delete the video and apologise,” the tweet said.
After long flights and hours of transit before reaching Sri Lanka, I got the shock of my life when I watched PCB’s short clip on the history of Pakistan cricket minus the great Imran Khan… political differences apart but Imran Khan is an icon of world cricket and developed…
— Wasim Akram (@wasimakramlive) August 16, 2023
Reminiscing in Pakistan crickets history, 11 images of the 1992 World Cup win and not one pic or mention of the greatest that ever played the game for the country!
Imran Khan will go down in history as one of the greats of the global game!#PakistanCricket https://t.co/wKsvBgNZ3u
— Urooj Mumtaz Khan (@uroojmumtazkhan) August 14, 2023
The video received severe backlash from Pakistani fans on social media when it was released on Monday.
The PCB re-released a new version of the video hours after Wasim’s criticism that did feature images of Imran and deleted the previous version. They said the original video was abridged “due to its length” and stated that “some important clips were missing”. Wasim, ironically, was not featured in this version.*
*This article was updated at 20:40 GMT on 16 August 2023 to reflect the PCB’s explanation surrounding Imran’s omission from the original promotional video, and to note the fact a new promotional video had been released
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