Shoaib hurt over negative publicity of his book

MUMBAI - Shoaib Akhtar is stressed and hurt due to the negative media publicity of his book 'Controversially Yours, according to co-author of the book Anshu Dogra. Speaking exclusively over her mobile from Delhi, she said: It is unfortunate that we had not anticipated so much such negative media publicity in India and Pakistan. The people have caught the only line where Shoaib had an out of context reference of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid in the book. We have given enough credit to the duo for the service they have rendered to the game, the co-author, who has written two more books (not on cricket), said. Shoaib in his book has written: Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid werent exactly match winners to start with, nor did they know the art of finishing the game. This was Shoaibs initial impression (about them) which, over a passage of time, was not on his mind, Ms Anshu Dogra added.

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