[VIDEOS] Who has bowled the best inswinging yorkers?

[IMMY69]

I've already said this in another thread but...

Waqar could bowl out swingers when he was at the top of his peak, prior to his first back injury. After his injury he only really hit too form in the Oval test match in 1992.
He took four top order wickets with the new ball in England's second innings.

Prior to the Australasia cup in 1989 (where everyone got to see his reverse swing Yorkers for the first time), Waqar was mainly a fast Bowler that bowled away swingers. Tgis was the case during the 1988 tour of Australia.

Everyone remembers Waqar for his reverse swing due to the 1992 series when he was just returning from injury and was no where near his peak until the fifth test match... the tabloids ran with the ball tampering story and it seems those born after 1990 have this impression that he only bowled well with tampered balls.

 

[subshakerz]

Wasim could bowl both outswinging and inswinging yorkers at great accuracy even at reduced pace. Though Waqar's inswinging yorker was a unique weapon.

 

[TheSultan]

This is nonsense

Yep another nonsense simplistic view of things. Example of the Oval 1992 2nd innings - 4 top order wickets (Gooch, Atherton, Stewart, Gower) before the ball was reversing and he got wickets with the ball moving away from the right hander and in to gower.

NZ 1993-94 - waqar only took 18 wickets in this series where he was carrying a niggle and the ball was hardly reversing all series in the lush nz outfield. Yes 18 wickets in 3 tests was considered a failure - that’s how destructive Waqar was at that time. Nowadays Bumrah gets 18 wickets in 4 tests and people are waxing lyrical about it!

Of course Waqar wasn’t an artist like Akram - there’s no shame in that, no one was!

 

[Pollack]

Waqar. Close no one to him. Akhtar another good. Beautiful Yorkers both bowling their times.

 

[cricket4all]

The difference between Wasim and Waqar was that Wasim was an artist with a new, undoctored ball as well. It took Waqar almost a decade to learn to bowl with a new ball.

If he played today he would not be half the bowler he was in his time. He would be one of the most expensive bowlers going around.

What Asif, a superior bowler, said about Waqar is very true.

Lol, what a convicted and proven match fixer said who is disgraced is hardly a credible person to quote.

 

[Rajdeep]

Bumrah to Bairstow at the oval with 57 over old red dukes is the best yorker I have seen.

 

[MenInG]

Two from M Wasim Jr tonight.

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[moghul]

Waqar has been the best by a distance , we can always about talk who has been the 2nd best.

 

[The Googly]

This is not even open for debate or doubt. Waqar. 2nd best is a few country miles behind.

 

[shamaan]

Malinga,Waqar and Bumrah

 

[Robert]

I cant remember who said it but similarly along the lines of alec stewart, think it was Boycott or Alan Lamb...

Give 99% of bowlers a cricket ball and a bottle top, sandpaper or tampered ball and they wont have a clue what to do with it,

Tampered ball or not it still requires a lot of skill to get the ball to move like the 2 WS did, so many after him tried especially in the county circuit, most failed miserably.

Dunno about that. Angus Fraser said he experimented with a ripped ball in the nets. Swung it about at will. He said it was like putting a rudder on the ball.

 

[silentkiller187]

Dunno about that. Angus Fraser said he experimented with a ripped ball in the nets. Swung it about at will. He said it was like putting a rudder on the ball.

Gus fraser was a skillful bowler, the rest of the bowlers post was-waq county stints were mostly dumbfounded just ask michael atherton what he was trying to acheive with the dirt in the pocket, most were clueless on the art of tampering.

 

[MenInG]

Courtesy of M. Starc vs Ireland today

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[SalimBhai]

Waqar by a mile. For 3-4 years at his peak , there was nothing like him.

 

[TheSultan]

Dunno about that. Angus Fraser said he experimented with a ripped ball in the nets. Swung it about at will. He said it was like putting a rudder on the ball.

They’re also on the other hand a statement on one of Sky sports’ many segments on wasim and Waqar where Robin Smith said England resorted to ball tampering in 1992 aswell as they were suspicious of Pakistan doing it and had no success.

I think there’s a difference between a ripped ball which would be so obviously tampered and a subtly tampered one which raises doubts but cannot be proved.

For the former I think anyone could have it going round corners, for the subtle ones you need a certain skill and level of pace.

 

[TheSultan]

Wasim Jr’s Yorkers better than bumrah’s

Bumrah’s baby pace and baby swing

 

[GreenBee]

Wasim Jr’s Yorkers better than bumrah’s

Bumrah’s baby pace and baby swing

I don't know who Wasim Jr is, but okay

 

[NishanKonar]

Best yorkers in international cricket

1. Waqar Younis
2. Lasith Malinga
3. Jasprit Bumrah

 

[TheSultan]

Seriously I don’t know if anyone has watched any bowlers of the 90s or 2000s.

We all know about Waqar, but others were pretty awesome too.

Shoaib
Brett Lee
Zahid
Shane Bond

Extreme pace, and all happened to have some serious Yorkers too.

Then you have some of the next level down. Not extreme pace, but quick with inswinging Yorkers.

Wasim Akram (yes he bowled inswinging Yorkers too duh)
Umar Gul
Malinga
Dale Steyn
Starc

Only Starc makes the list out of current players. I’m even excluding current Pakistan bowlers too like Shaheen, Rauf, Wasim Jr as well as other international yorker bowlers like Bumrah. I need to see more from them to make the list.

 

[Misia]

Can't ignore Anwar Ali from the under 19Wc

 

[TheSultan]

Can't ignore Anwar Ali from the under 19Wc

Those weren’t Yorkers though. Big, hooping inswingers yes, but not Yorkers. Impressive for an u19 player. Unfortunately he couldn’t take that great potential forward

 

[Local.Dada]

Among current players

Bumrah
Starc
Shaheen (with the new ball)