Sarim Akhtar, also known as the Angry Pakistani fan, who went viral on the memes for his frustrated expressions and disappointed posture during the 2019 World Cup match between Pakistan and Australia, has now been featured in an English vocabulary book.

His picture from the match was used as a graphical representation of the word “glared” to describe phrases like “to stare angrily” and “reflect uncomfortably” in the book.

At first, even Akhtar felt that the picture may be fake and had tweeted about it in a lighthearted manner to engage with his fans.

Waooo, got featured on an English vocabulary book pic.twitter.com/ihkcMGosC2

— Sarim Akhtar (@msarimakhtar) August 17, 2021

“Waooo, got featured on an English vocabulary book,” he wrote from his official social media handle. 

However, he later tweeted about how it was an actual book and that the publishers had used his image without taking permission from him. In addition, he also clarified that he has nothing to do with the book and was not endorsing it.

This turned out to be an actual book after all received it on WhatsApp publisher used my image w/o permission

Note: this is not an endorsement of any kind and I am not affiliated with either the publisher or the website that might have illegally PDF’d it https://t.co/h8qWfCE3hW pic.twitter.com/wOV9dSsmPO

— Sarim Akhtar (@msarimakhtar) August 19, 2021

“This turned out to be an actual book after all received it on WhatsApp publisher used my image w/o permission Note: this is not an endorsement of any kind and I am not affiliated with either the publisher or the website that might have illegally PDF’d it,” he added.

Here’s how a few of his fans reacted to the surprising development:

Dude you should get a parent or sell it as a digital art.

— Basit (@basitj) August 19, 2021

Lolz. I bet you never thought that you would get famous like that. That's what we call Allah's plans. :)

— Ahmed Umar IYI (@alif2infinity) August 18, 2021

you must claim royalty. Get this picture copy righted.

— Durash Kumar (@durashkumar) August 18, 2021

Congratulations bro
You become boss without any cost

— sattar ahmad (@SattarAhmadRph) August 18, 2021

Ever since his picture went viral on social media, he has been visible in all sorts of gimmicks, including getting printed on t-shirts, having himself a special place in the ‘Meme Museum’ and even getting to feature in a Coca-Cola advertisement as himself.

We got to see Sarim’s meme a lot more in the recent past after the Pakistan cricket side was unable to win the first Test match against the West Indies squad at the Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica between 12-15 August.

Despite Fawad Alam’s 56 in the first innings and skipper Babar Azam’s 55 in the second innings, the Windies batting order proved to be too strong to get defeated at home, and thanks to some magnificent batting display by Jason Holder and Jermaine Blackwood, they were able to topple the touring squad on Day 4 with a wicket to spare.

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