A renown Australia website has made a short clip of the legendary Wasim Akram bowling in Australia. These are old footages when Wasim was quite young and really expressive with his pace and skills. He was indeed a special gift to international cricket.
Wasim Akram was an excellent bowler on the dead pitches of the subcontinent and when he used to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand, he was almost close to unplayable in most of the times. He was one of the very best in this business of fast bowling.
Wasim was special with the new and old ball both. He was excellent with the swing and was one of the inventors of the reverse swing. He learnt the art from his mentor Imran Khan. Imran transformed Wasim into a lethal machine.
Wasim had everything special about him. Here we see him rattled the stumps of batters from toughest oppositions like Australia, England and West Indies. All these wickets shown in this clip are taken on the pitches of Australia.
Wasim is bowling all sorts of deliveries and taking wickets on them. He bowled Yorkers and short pitch deliveries and because of his lethal pace, he was always going for the bullseye. Wasim Akram is one of those limited names from international cricket who made it to the hall of the game of international cricket.
Wasim Akram with his age modified his bowling action, pace and run up. Wasim despite losing his high pace with age still was pretty clever to get wickets. He was constant with his line and length and that is what gave him a good cluster of wickets in his final years of international cricket.
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