Zaz
Senior T20I Player
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If ur talking about 2 of the best strike bowlers then look no further than
Marshall n
Waqar
Marshall n
Waqar
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If some Pakistani 'cultists' are indeed deluded, they are in good company.
Allan Border said that Akram was the cricketer he would like to come back as. Graham Gooch said he would make his world 11 alongside Marshall, Warne and Lillee and that he would rather face Michael Holding than Wasim.
Brian Lara rated him as the best he had faced, adding that “with Wasim Akram you can play the best forward defensive and he can get through that." Mark Taylor rated him the best bowler he faced along with Ambrose and summed up the breathtaking variety that Akram possessed, by noting that he could land the ball on the same spot for four times and do four different things with it. Other Australians, Michael Slater, Justin Langer and Ian Healy agreed with Taylor, that Wasim was the greatest they faced.
In a recent Sky debate when discussing the greatest, Nasser Hussain, Ricky Ponting (and David Lloyd) were unanimous: Wasim was the best. Jacques Kallis who never even faced Wasim at his peak concluded "In my opinion Wasim Akram of Pakistan was the best pace bowler that I ever faced."
Respect was not only forthcoming from batsmen. He was rated the best of his generation by Allan Donald. Curtly Ambrose was even more emphatic: "I think Wasim Akram is the greatest. He has done things with the cricket ball no other fast bowler has."
Wasim Akram did not so much make the ball talk, as Peter Roebuck once observed, but he made it sing instead.
Surely not to the current Indian team though![]()
They are talking about the last few years only, not all of cricket history. And while they thought Wasim was the best they faced, how did Steyn get them out more often for fewer runs?
David Gower said the most difficult bowler he ever faced was Andy Roberts; not Lillee, Imran, Hadlee or Marshall. In which case how did Marshall do better against him?
They are talking about the last few years only, not all of cricket history.
And while they thought Wasim was the best they faced, how did Steyn get them out more often for fewer runs?
David Gower said the most difficult bowler he ever faced was Andy Roberts; not Lillee, Imran, Hadlee or Marshall. In which case how did Marshall do better against him?
So much love for McGrath, understandably - but little to no mention of a similar (IMO better) bowler in King Curtly.
@1:07 - "This Ambrose is unreal"
Of course he would be partnered by the orignal Waqar, head-band and afro to boot.