5 most controversial dressing room showdowns in recent memory
Any professional sport can be trying at times as it puts people of different personalities and from widely different backgrounds together in the dressing room. It is not unlikely therefore that there will always be the odd occasion when things will get heated up and sparks will fly.Over the years, there have been quite a few incidences of heated exchanges and boisterous fights breaking out in the dressing room. Here are the five most controversial dressing room showdowns in recent memory.
#5 Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis
The initial disagreement between Wasim and Waqar took place before the Asian Test championship in Kolkata in 1999. But things got ugly in the dressing room as Pakistan lost the Delhi Test and rumours started doing the rounds that Waqar would be sent back home.
In his autobiography Controversially Yours, Shoaib Akhtar claims that the constant feud in the dressing room between Waqar and Wasim heated up the dressing room and affected the spirit in the dressing room.
Akhtar writes: "Inside the dressing room, things got uglier. I do not remember it but ever being as tense as it was then. The two seniors were at war and we were a young and fresh team. Everyone was stressed out and amidst all this, it was decided that I would play."