Pakistan pace great Wasim Akram has revealed he developed a cocaine addiction after his retirement from the game but quit following the death of his first wife in 2009.
The 56-year-old has opened up about his dependency on cocaine in his upcoming autobiography ‘Sultan: A Memoir.’ Pakistan’s leading wicket-taker in both Test and ODI cricket said he started to crave “a substitute for the adrenaline rush of competition” when he was travelling away from his first wife Huma.
“The culture of fame in south Asia is all consuming, seductive and corrupting. You can go to 10 parties a night, and some do. And it took its toll on me,” Akram told the Times.
