"Wasim Akram and Curtly Ambrose were easily the best fast bowlers I've ever faced" : Ricky Ponting

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"Wasim Akram and Curtly Ambrose were easily the best fast bowlers I've ever faced" : Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting in reply to a query on Twitter:


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Wasim Akram and Curtly Ambrose were easily the best fast bowlers I've ever faced. Shoaib Akhtar clearly the quickest but Harbhajan Singh got me out more than anybody

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Mid-to-late 90s and early 00s had very unique cricketers, especially bowlers.

Pak once had a bowling attack of:

Wasim
Waqar
Akhtar
Saqlain
Razzaq
Afridi
Azhar

This attack won an ODI series against the great Aussies in their home

 

[AFM]

I've heard him say that before.

 

[Ryw]

Why is Harbhajan Singh in his list he was an ordinary off break spinner. I agree Ambrose Akram & Akhtar were deadliest bowlers at that time

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Ambrose and Akram were the most difficult bowlers to score off. Even Jayasuriya said these two were the hardest to play.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Why is Harbhajan Singh in his list he was an ordinary off break spinner. I agree Ambrose Akram & Akhtar were deadliest bowlers at that time

Ponting struggled against him a lot

 

[big_gamer007]

Both were amazing and unique. I think most batsmen will take these 2 names if asked.

 

[Savak]

Lol nobody worth his salt talks about Waqar, but everyone definitely talks about Wasim. Shane Warne in his autobiography even rated Akhtar above Waqar and said Waqar mostly fed of Wasim

 

[Ab Fan]

Lol nobody worth his salt talks about Waqar, but everyone definitely talks about Wasim. Shane Warne in his autobiography even rated Akhtar above Waqar and said Waqar mostly fed of Wasim

Well that's exactly the point. Everyone rates Wasim highly and considers him as the toughest bowler to deal with, most of the greats of the game have already said so. Haven't heard many talking about Waqar as much.

For me, Wasim remains Pakistan's greatest bowler of all-time.

 

[angrypathan]

Lol nobody worth his salt talks about Waqar, but everyone definitely talks about Wasim. Shane Warne in his autobiography even rated Akhtar above Waqar and said Waqar mostly fed of Wasim

Ponting debuted in 96, well after Waqar's peak years. Wasim's bowling remained at a very high level till about 2002

 

[Robert]

Lol nobody worth his salt talks about Waqar, but everyone definitely talks about Wasim. Shane Warne in his autobiography even rated Akhtar above Waqar and said Waqar mostly fed of Wasim

In the 1992 series in England, Waqar appeared to be the real hard man.

For some reason, Wasim didn’t do so well against England. Perhaps the batters learned him a bit during his long stint at Lancs.

 

[Zaz]

Thats good of him to say even though akram was clearly past his peak when ponting was playing in the late 90s

 

[Asif khan]

In the 1992 series in England, Waqar appeared to be the real hard man.

For some reason, Wasim didn’t do so well against England. Perhaps the batters learned him a bit during his long stint at Lancs.

We've been through this before and although Waqar pre-stress fractures was a force of nature nearly every single English batsman of that era have the same views as Ponting - read their autobographies man!