Wasim will always be remembered for the style and spirit in which he played the game, yet for such a mild-mannered and charming man he had his fair share of clashes with the Pakistan Cricket Board. From a privileged background, he did not enjoy the hierarchy within the side, once refusing to hang out a senior player’s socks to dry, but more importantly he always felt frustrated that he seemed to be picked on a match-by-match basis while a clique of senior players were omnipresent in the team. But for this, he might have captained Pakistan ahead of the more rumbustious Javed Miandad or diffident Zaheer Abbas. After all, as a batsman he was a prodigy at 18 and led the under-19 side. Quite often then he did not bother to wear pads when practising with his contemporary Imran Khan, who admitted that Wasim “was in a different class altogether and was already batting with a maturity beyond his years.”
He represented Pakistan in more than 100 international matches, coached the national side for a short while and had a spell as an ICC match referee, being in charge of the last Ashes series in Australia. For a number of years he played minor counties cricket for Durham. Wasim later married an English girl before becoming one of the ICC’s elite panel of match referees. He died in August 2006 and was buried in UK.
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