Wasim Akram has made some shocking revelations regarding how Saleem Malik, a former teammate from Pakistan, mistreated him when he was a young player.

Wasim Akram has made some shocking revelations regarding how Saleem Malik, a former teammate from Pakistan, mistreated him when he was a young player. In his biography, "Sultan: A Memoir," Akram, who made his debut in 1984, two years after Malik made his first appearance for Pakistan, said that Malik would take advantage of his seniority to treat him like a "servant" while on trips.

He would exploit the fact that I am his junior. He was unfavourable, egotistical, and treated me like a slave. He insisted I give him a massage and gave me instructions to wash his clothes and boots."I was angry that sometimes my teammates Ramiz, Tahir, Mohsin, Shoaib Mohammad invited me to a night club," reads Akram's book.

Akram and Malik remained teammates for days, but reports of the two not getting along continued to surface throughout their matches. Akram played under Malik when he captained Pakistan from 1992 to 1995, winning seven out of 12 Tests and 21 out of 34 ODIs. In 2000, Malik was convicted of match-fixing and banned for life, but that did not stop him from exposing Akram's brutal treatment of Waqar Younis. In fact, Malik even went on to say that Akram would avoid even talking to him when he was the captain since Wasim was considering the job himself.

"When I would go to Wasim to hand him the ball, he would snatch it from me, because he wasn't talking to me. There was anger because I had become captain, whereas Wasim and Waqar wanted it. Both of them weren't speaking to me, and yet we won the series. Wasim would snatch the ball from me and walk away, and I would walk along with him. Waz wasn't talking to me," Malik had said earlier this year in an interview with a local media channel.

"I would tell him: 'Waz, you're the No.1 bowler in the world.' I am saying it to him while he's walking to his run-up in anger. I said 'You're the No.1 bowler, you dismiss him, you don't, it doesn't matter to me. You have your own reputation."