Legendary former fast bowler Wasim Akram on Tuesday took to Twitter to share his humiliating experience at the Manchester Airport. The Pakistan great was ill-treated by the airport officials. Akram, who has played 104 Test matches and bagged 414 wickets, posted details of the negligence on the part of the officials as they didn”t pay heed to his diabetes medication.

Very disheartened at Manchester airport today,I travel around the world with my insulin but never have I been made to feel embarrassed.I felt very humiliated as I was rudely questioned & ordered publicly to take my insulin out of its travel cold-case & dumped in to a plastic bag pic.twitter.com/UgW6z1rkkF

— Wasim Akram (@wasimakramlive) July 23, 2019

“Very disheartened at Manchester airport today, I travel around the world with my insulin but never have I been made to feel embarrassed. Felt very humiliated as I was rudely questioned & ordered publicly to take my insulin out of its travel cold-case & dumped into a plastic bag,” Wasim Akram wrote in a post on his Twitter account.

Akram”s Battle With Diabetes

The former athlete was first diagnosed with Type I diabetes in the year 1997. He was an active cricketer back then and was leading the Pakistan Cricket team. Since then, he has been taking insulin injections multiple times a day. “I was diagnosed with diabetes in 1997. At that point, I was only 29 years old. I thought my life was gone — no more cricket. But, my wife gave me mental strength. It’s just mental discipline. Temptations are there. I feel like having biryani every night — naans and kulchas, and niharis. But I avoid it.” he had said about his battle with the disease.

He also went on to throw light on his diet and the manner in which he trained his mind. “Before lunch, I eat a bowl of stir-fried vegetables so my stomach is more or less full. And then I’ll have a little of whatever else is there. So that’s the sort of technique I’ve used to train myself,” he was quoted as saying by Sportskeeda.

Akram is also the lone fast bowler to scalp 500-plus wickets in ODI cricket. He bagged a total of 502 wickets from 356 ODIs. He was in the United Kingdom as part of the commentary commitments in the ICC Cricket World Cup. England lifted the coveted trophy for the first time.

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