I am not a big fan of Shoaib's attitude but I miss him when he is not playing for Pakistani team. He is a match-winner and his bowling figures are not unimpressive. I hope he wins his appeal against the controversial ban.
Shoaib has played only 46 Tests and critics are saying that it is pitiful.

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Cricinfo looks at the troubles, travails, intrigues, injuries, incidents, controversies and scandals of the Rawalpindi Express
http://content-pak.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/238970.html

The late Bob Woolmer, who was then coach, made it clear he was losing patience with Shoaib's playboy persona, while Worcestershire chairman John Elliott called him "a disruptive influence" on the English county team.
Most bizarrely of all, a Pakistani citizen once served him with a lawsuit for attending a fashion show on a night of religious significance.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23474082-2882,00.html

If the five-year ban imposed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Shoaib Akhtar today sounds harsh then they, too, have at least saved themselves many hours of disciplinary hearings in the year ahead. Shoaib has been such a serial offender that few misdemeanours have gone uncommitted.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article3660895.ece

Akhtar was also one of the biggest box office draws in the game. His brilliance as a cricketer was only outstripped by the turbulent nature of his personality, and it increasingly appears that it is for those qualities that he will be remembered.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricket/story/0,,2270047,00.html

Since his international debut in 1997, the 32-year-old Akhtar has always attracted controversy. He has repeatedly been accused of feigning injuries when he did not want to play, and two years ago tested positive for nandrolone - though the findings were reversed on appeal.
When fully committed, though, Akhtar has been as dangerous as any seamer in world cricket. On top of his raw pace - which saw him become the first man to record 100mph on the speed gun - he is capable of guile and deception.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2008/04/01/ucpaks201.xml