“Facing Shoaib Akhtar was like a nightmare, I thought I was going to get killed that day.”

Bangladesh cricket team opener Tamim Iqbal says that facing Shoaib Akhtar in the past was like a nightmare, I thought I would be killed that day.

According to the report of a foreign news agency, Bangladesh’s veteran batsman Tamim Iqbal mentioned the past memories on Facebook Live along with former Bangladesh cricketers Khalid Mehmood, Naeemur Rehman and Habib Al Basher.

Tamim Iqbal reminisced about facing Shoaib Akhtar and said that facing Rawalpindi Express was no less than a nightmare.

The Bangladeshi opener said he was so scared that at one point he felt like Shoaib Akhtar was going to kill him. But once I faced Shoaib Akhtar, I got scared.

Discussing the topic of Shoaib Akhtar, Tamim, Habib Bashir, and Khalid Mahmood, Naeem Chawre talk about Bangladesh’s Multan Test in 2003, the same year Shoaib hit the fastest ball ever in cricket at 161.3 kg. It was done at a speed of meters per hour.

Tamim Iqbal faced Shoaib Akhtar for the first time in Kenya in 2007, in which he scored a run off Shoaib Akhtar’s 4 balls and caught Shahid Afridi at cover.

In Asia Cup 2010, when Tamim Iqbal faced Shoaib Akhtar, he played an innings of 34 runs off 27 balls, in which he faced Shoaib Akhtar’s eight balls and did not give his wicket to Shoaib.