Shoaib Akhtar burst onto the big stage in the 1999 World Cup with a long, hurtling run-up and blistering speed. His star status was sealed by a great flop of hair, a talent for show-boating and a vivid nickname - the Rawalpindi Express. In february 1999, he got world wide star status after dismissing Dravid and Tendulkar on consecutive ballson home soil both clean bowlded. Plus he was the star performer in the 1999 World cup, where Pakistan reached the finals, Man of the Match in the Semi finals, things started to wrong after that. In 2002, turning in two of the most blistering bowling efforts of the year, both against Australia. First, he blitzed them with a spell of 5 for 25 in a one-dayer at Brisbane, and then returned 5 for 21 in a spectacular performance in Colombo that all but won the Test, he got Gilchrist, Ponting, Hayden all without the help of any fielders.
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