Broke his ribs? Are you actually making fun of a cricketer getting hurt badly by another cricketer? If you are, you are messed up in the head. If not, I guess I misunderstood what you wrote.
Also, Akhtar is a legendary bowler for sure, but he did get destroyed by batsmen like Tendulkar etc now and then.
Akhtar, at his peak was almost unplayable. I still remember his first test match against India. That was played at the Eden Gardens in 1999. In the first innings, Akhtar ended up with 4 wickets, including those of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. All of them got clean bowled and one of the Indian batsmen told media that it was very difficult to even see the ball when he is bowling. He picked another 4 wickets in the second innings (Rahul Dravid, Nayan Mongia, Anil Kumble and Venkatesh Prasad) to give Pakistan a rare test victory against India in that country.
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Shoaib Akhtar was definitely one of the best bowler of his era. But the Team Pakistan didn't support him and the PCB didn't even support him in his last matches that he played in the World Cup. The World Cup that was played I think in 2011 . That was his last one in which he should be supported on the both side even from the team it has and from the PCB. But he was so sad when he was taking retirement from the cricket. Even he was the greatest pacer against the top batsmen. When he mostly came to bowl all the batsmen will be so scary.