[VIDEO] Where have the yorkers gone?

[Moiza]

Daily during lunch time and dinner time while eating I watch an old match on youtube and I have been doing this for a while. A trend which was very obvious back in the day was of yorkers. Our own wasim and waqar were the expert at it and when they got it right nobody in the world could play it. Other countries too used the yorker as a wicket taking weapon quite frequently.

This trend started to fade away with time and cricketers started to use less and less of it and a few years back only a handful bowlers even bothered to use it, malinga and gul to new the very few. And coming to now a days i think the only bowler who even bother with the yorker is starc and we are seeing how successful is.

Commentators have said it too at times that they also wonder why bowlers dont bother bowling yorkers. An argument against it will be that you can get it wrong or that there arent any "fast" bowlers around to bowl yorkers but I dont agree. Pace helps but you dont need to lightning quick to bowl a good yorker. Lets take riaz for example, I remember in the 10-11 tour of new zealand he bowled a yorker to jesse rhyder in the test and one to franklin in the odis, both were brilliant yorkers and both deliveries got the wickets. But now a days you barely see him bowling yorkers anymore even though he has enough pace. In the entire series vs england I dont remeber even once when the bowler actually tried to bowl a yorker, they did not even try! We saw wahab reverse it in the first test and even then somehow he didnt bowl a single yorker.

Would someone shed some light on this conundrum?

 

[Xoib]

Daily during lunch time and dinner time while eating I watch an old match on youtube and I have been doing this for a while. A trend which was very obvious back in the day was of yorkers. Our own wasim and waqar were the expert at it and when they got it right nobody in the world could play it. Other countries too used the yorker as a wicket taking weapon quite frequently.

This trend started to fade away with time and cricketers started to use less and less of it and a few years back only a handful bowlers even bothered to use it, malinga and gul to new the very few. And coming to now a days i think the only bowler who even bother with the yorker is starc and we are seeing how successful is.

Commentators have said it too at times that they also wonder why bowlers dont bother bowling yorkers. An argument against it will be that you can get it wrong or that there arent any "fast" bowlers around to bowl yorkers but I dont agree. Pace helps but you dont need to lightning quick to bowl a good yorker. Lets take riaz for example, I remember in the 10-11 tour of new zealand he bowled a yorker to jesse rhyder in the test and one to franklin in the odis, both were brilliant yorkers and both deliveries got the wickets. But now a days you barely see him bowling yorkers anymore even though he has enough pace. In the entire series vs england I dont remeber even once when the bowler actually tried to bowl a yorker, they did not even try! We saw wahab reverse it in the first test and even then somehow he didnt bowl a single yorker.

Would someone shed some light on this conundrum?

agreed even Amir pre ban was willing to experiment with yorkers but for some reason it has gone out of our armory.

 

[Zaz]

Its a tough delivery to bowl in a test because the field is set up and even a slight error will cost a boundary

Having said that every now and then its something thats worth the risk

 

[Deewana Mastana]

It seems like you have just started watching cricket, especially Pakistan cricket as they have lost the art of bowling
yorkers for a good while now.

 

[Abdullah]

Tests it is risky but shold still definitely be tried. In odis most players (non Pakistani ) can play the ramp so they reach out and intercept the yorker b4 it lands and paddle ramp it for 4. So it is harder to bowl then it was before and also we see less reverse in odis now. U r more likely to succeed with a new ball yorker now but u r risking it with the field up

 

[Pakprideuk]

Not quick enough. Apart from Wahab and Starc the other bowlers don't have the pace accompanied by late movement to effectively bowl a yorker. Back then Waqar, Wasim, Shoaib were quick enough to beat the batsmen in the air.

 

[JilaWatan]

rem in one test match, amir got guptil with a yorker in the first over of the test match, next inning he got nicol same way in the first over. sometimes it can be used as a surprise ball. i guess no confidence

 

[New Yorker]

Daily during lunch time and dinner time while eating I watch an old match on youtube and I have been doing this for a while. A trend which was very obvious back in the day was of yorkers. Our own wasim and waqar were the expert at it and when they got it right nobody in the world could play it. Other countries too used the yorker as a wicket taking weapon quite frequently.

This trend started to fade away with time and cricketers started to use less and less of it and a few years back only a handful bowlers even bothered to use it, malinga and gul to new the very few. And coming to now a days i think the only bowler who even bother with the yorker is starc and we are seeing how successful is.

Commentators have said it too at times that they also wonder why bowlers dont bother bowling yorkers. An argument against it will be that you can get it wrong or that there arent any "fast" bowlers around to bowl yorkers but I dont agree. Pace helps but you dont need to lightning quick to bowl a good yorker. Lets take riaz for example, I remember in the 10-11 tour of new zealand he bowled a yorker to jesse rhyder in the test and one to franklin in the odis, both were brilliant yorkers and both deliveries got the wickets. But now a days you barely see him bowling yorkers anymore even though he has enough pace. In the entire series vs england I dont remeber even once when the bowler actually tried to bowl a yorker, they did not even try! We saw wahab reverse it in the first test and even then somehow he didnt bowl a single yorker.

Would someone shed some light on this conundrum?

Amir's still got it, which is a relief.

In domestics, Sadaf does it routinely. A very high percentage of wickets
bowled and lbw.

Wahab is in his own words 'practicing [yorkers] every day'. By the time
he's 38 he should have them down pat.

Pure class that man.

 

[Xoib]

Pakistani pacers and yorkers

Seriously something has to be done about this match is almost done ball is reversing atleast try it might get you a wicket

 

[Xoib]

Almost worked

 

[MenInG]

Bowling well in this game.

 

[Xoib]

What a dumb bowler amir is moin struggling with full ball and he keeps pitching length

 

[#GreenRoars]

We lost the art, simple.

 

[yasir_shah_fan]

Notice how Nasser Hussain pointed out the lack of common sense when Wahab Riaz was bowling to England's new batsman (Moeen Ali at the time), guy has had struggles against short ball and with high backlift a yorker would have been a good ploy but no Wahab had ideas of bowling length to his hips. I've seen too much of this from Wahab over the years which is why I can't even call him a poor man's Mitchell Johnson. Even Mohammad Sami had more brains than this when he was bowling to a new batsman.

 

[Moiza]

First real try at bowling yorkers and that gets him the wicket.

 

[waleed88]

Beautiful trap set by Wahab and Misbah, they keep a short leg in place and then Wahab bowls a yorker.. that has to be the wicket of the day, completely outfoxed the best.. loved the aggression too!!

 

[asifp]

Is it that difficult to bowl a Yorker?

It’s alarming that a country know for banana swing Yorkers has fast bowlers that don’t even attempt to bowl a Yorker.

I mean why don’t they even try? It’s shocking. Zero Yorkers tried in the last game and this one now. Hasan and Amir were both known to bowl them.

Are they being giving instructions not to try the Yorker or what? It’s shocking to be honest.

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Still hardly any sign of the delivery that Pakistani bowlers have been so famous for over the years - the yorker <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CWC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CWC19</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENGvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENGvPAK</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1135587957862273024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[dhump]

Yes, it is challenging to ball a good yorker, and no this is not tape ball cricket international players can handle yorker length deliveries quite well. They are bowling alright as per their standard.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Some excellent Yorkers from Shami and Bumrah today.

 

[MenInG]

Mohammad Wasim Jr has been impressive with yorkers - good to see

 

[as-95]

Aamer Jamal last over wide Yorkers too

 

[Saj]

People keep saying that yorkers are outdated and batters have worked them out.

For those, watch Aamer Jamal's last over today.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

People keep saying that yorkers are outdated and batters have worked them out.

For those, watch Aamer Jamal's last over today.

They don't understand cricket then. We would have about 4 more trophies if we hadn't abandoned the yorker in the past decade.

 

[heddie19]

I agree. That's what Bumrah relies on in LOI too.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

These days the bowlers only bowls Yorkers if he is absolutely certain he can bowl one , it's all about confidence and mentality.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

Rauf definitely can but I don't why he never bowls them much.

 

[KingOfPakBreakfast]

People keep saying that yorkers are outdated and batters have worked them out.

For those, watch Aamer Jamal's last over today.

I think there’s some apprehension that if you miss your length, you’re getting hit for six.

The biggest apprehension against the Yorker is because of the ramp and scoop shots. A Yorker within the stumps gets ramped nowadays whilst a wider Yorker can get scooped.

One thing that bowlers can do, to batsmen using the crease, Is to practice reacting accordingly.

Thus if it’s a wide Yorker, the batsmen can either play it normally or try to the scoop. If you see the batsmen premeditate his shot, just change your line to a stumps Yorker. Easier said than done, but it s something that can be practised.

 

[Firebat]

There's not a better delivery in cricket than the yorker

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