“Being married to Wasim and having kids with him is an experience that most women won’t like to have: its more like being a single parent with two teenage boys to bring up, manage and take decisions for,” Huma Wasim startled many with a confession about her married life in a TV interview with Geo almost a year ago.
With Wasim by her side, Huma complained of never having enough of Wasim Akram’s company at home since he had to be abroad most of the time. Huma passed away in Chennai on Sunday, following multiple-organ failure.
While many believed that Huma was a dominating wife, she herself quite substantiated the belief when she expressed in an interview, “Wasim is an ordinary person to me. I have never thought of him or dealt with him as a celebrity. He is just my husband.”
Although she denied having any interest in cricket at all, saying she hardly ever watched it, it is a known fact that in the early days of their marriage, when Akram was at his peak, cameras often zoomed in Huma cheering her hubby’s skillful bowling.
Friends believe that Wasim Akram, who liked to have fun, turned into a gentleman after getting married.
Akram and Huma had fallen in love while he was playing county cricket in England and she was studying psychiatry. After marriage, Huma moved to Lahore and joined Imran Khan’s Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital.
Wasim Akram, while answering a question in a television interview, had confessed he was married at 26 when he didn’t have much ‘chance’ to look around. He did add, however, that he was lucky to have the ‘best partner’.
