Dhaka: Former Pakistani fast bowling great Wasim Akram has hit out at Australia skipper Ricky Ponting for suggesting that minnows Bangladesh be ousted from Test cricket.
"Mr Ponting you must keep your mouth shut and look back to what they did against you in Cardiff last year and take a note of the latest one against Sri Lanka," Akram wrote in his column in the Daily Star newspaper in Dhaka on Thursday.
"His (Ponting's) duty is to play cricket and not to think about which teams will play at this level," said Akram, who bagged 414 wickets in 104 Tests and 502 in 356 One-Dayers.
Bangladesh stunned Sri Lanka by four wickets in the second One-Dayer at Bogra on Wednesday, nearly eight months after their remarkable win over world champions Australia in a triangular series match at Cardiff in England.
Akram's comments came a week after Ponting told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that Bangladesh and fellow-strugglers Zimbabwe should be stripped of Test status.
"What I would not have is the minnow nations in the World Cup and the Champions Trophy, and I would not have Bangladesh and Zimbabwe playing Tests at present," Ponting said in an interview.
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