Haha me too! I remember through the 90s those were the dreaded words for my ears 👂

Yar kia bol diya ha

Not only Akram, but Javagal Srinath too had a similar fortune in 90s. Bowling his heart out in spells after spells in SENA countries, only to see the edges getting dropped either by keeper or the slip fielders.

@@HarrisSultanAtheist mein bhi from Hind

Condolences for the series just passed. You guys played some great cricket. We really need to get you a catching coach..

in what it was against Zimbabwe

Wasim akrams highest test score

+Jayakrishnan Nair Totally agree with his bowling... thats why he is regarded among best of best bowlers of all time. He was actually good with bat. But there is no comparison in high scores of him and Sachin or any other regular batsman. Someone already said it (257) was against Zim which is low level side and he got that 200 only once. Sachin on the other hand has 6 double hundreds in Test career (4 coming against strong test sides). All im saying is that the batting wasnt justified in your comment, though he was a good lower order batsman.

100% true pitch slow ho wet ho bouncy ho grassy ho whatever wasim ne dominant kiya. sportsman of century ki list mn hona chahyay..

+David Jenkinson matthew hayden's 380 too is against zim

Anther Aussie here who rates Akram top 3 of all time Brilliant natural talent One of a kind ;)

@@andrewcarr7939 thanks My bro Akram was realy aa Great Bowler

Agreed. Still remember Wasim starting career. He was spotted by the great Imran khan the then Captain and brought him into the squad. Then he never looked back.

@@andrewcarr7939 who are the other two?

U great sir

Very true

And scores to defend. Pak 107 all out.

U r ryt bro

Hmm good point. Do you have an approximate count of how many were dropped?

And also quality umpires

Above 700 definitely

Sometimes it doesn't make any sense when u degrade someone in order to make someone Look great. Undoubtedly wasim was a class but under imran Khan captaincy there feilding was not that bad

I think pakistan always have problems with their fielding they need to fix that

adipolida right I might have seen 100s if catches dropped on their bowling.

@@syedirtazabukhari7713 cough kamran Akmal cough

Batsman was not good that time.

@@RajaKumar-nh2bw kuxh bhi

@@RajaKumar-nh2bw Learn to appericate bro.

Raja Kumar technically batsmen from yesteryear were much better then these days. Akram was very smart and accurate on his days. he was much better bowler then Amir + wahab riaz of these days.

shaanju agree he was number 1

in terms of skill the best there has been, the only bowler that could make the old ball talk on ANY pitch condition and the only bowler that actually loved playing with the old ball

Shiv Ramdas Marshall wasn't better than akram...I respect Marshall but ur terribly wrong to talk like that.

thiruvetti deadliest fast bowler the world has ever seen.

wasim akram himself said marshall was better than him and the best bowler of all time look it up.

thiruvetti yeah this is the fact that he had worst fielders with him

+Steven Davies McGrath where??

+aman gajraj he comes second

+aman gajraj McGrath was better known as his consistency and line and length. Akram was better known for his swing and Yorkers and variety.

+aman gajraj Definitely one of the best, but Wasim was better in my opinion.

m Khan Everyone has got their own opinion. You've yours and he has his and I've mine.

except for the umpires

Udaranga Wickramasinghe certainly it was😑

So natural and so pure

Yes that was real cricket not today's cricket where batsmen enjoys all benefits

TRue

Ashwani Rana even there are great right arm fast bowlers but wasim can be chosen among them as best.

He is one of the greatest bowlers of all time and probably the greatest fast bower of all time, regardless left or right.

+Shiv Ramdas he is considered greatest fast bowler of all times in ODIs

Shiv Ramdas you've never seen the guy play... Speed guns were incredibly unreliable those days.. Doubt Marshall could do any of that even 10 years after he played

@Sanjay Kulkarni mate the English batsman where themselves pathetic and made Johnson look scary after ashes India went there and Johnson was nowhere to be seen

Thank you, Mr. Singh you are indeed a die-hard lover of pace bowlers from Pakistan.

Thank u Ronaq for applausing talent without being bias

Irfan Ahsan we always do mate

sardar ji, always remember he was taught reverse swing by the greatest of them all, IMRAN KHAN.

One of the salient features of his bowling was he always looked as if he was going to take a wicket...irrespective of pitch and weather conditions. At his pick he looked to pick wicket in every delivery.

shaikhMaham 123456789 not dead he played on. Seaming pitches Akram played on. But he is good

Wah, wah jab purane batsmen ki baat aye to pitch kharaab aur jab achche bowler ki baat aaye to pitch sapaat. Matlab chitt bhi tumhari aur patt bhi tumhari.

@@oskarjung6738 He meant only for Subcontinent pitches I guess because subcontinent pitches are more suitable for spinners rather than Pacers and by the we are getting flat pitches only in White ball Cricket now Test cricket is still having balance b/w Bat and ball it's no one way traffic that's why I enjoy Test Cricket more.

F Grade Fielders

@C.H.A.D Bravo The pitches in Pakistan were never made for seamers. That's why Imran would be going on and on about the need for Australian dirt (seriously, he wanted to fly/ship tons and tons of dirt from Perth and Brisbane to Pakistani cricket grounds because he was obsessed with the Australian domestic set-up). The kind of pitches you get in any part of the world have to do with the nature of the soil and the weather conditions. The groundsmen can only do so much to affect the natural propensity of the ground. That's why the subcontinent has never had green-tops and England doesn't have rock-hard belters. For what it's worth, the closest thing to an English pitch in Pakistan, that I know of, is Peshawar, which up till a decade ago could be really helpful to seam bowlers. Of course, no one plays matches there anymore, so who knows what it's like? Perhaps if there were proper, international-quality cricket grounds in the northern areas, you'd have more sporting pitches. Karachi, Lahore and Multan aren't about to change.

or the indian hating

+TheKiwiGamer u do realise Australians posted this?

Glenn mcgrath

+Mansoor Qaisrani Do you realize that the person to whom you responded is an Indian himself?

wow! It did not sound like respect!

have you heard about malcolm marshall

+Atarv Bhartiya .. please tell us more about Marshall .. i would like to know tje below- 1) Did he know reverse swing? 2) Did he take 500 wickets in ODI? 3) Did he take 400+ wickets in ODI? 4) Did he have an unplayable inswinging yorker?

+Avishek Biswas I suggest you look up Wasim and Marshall's respective Test and first class wicket totals, strike rates and averages... Both were superb bowlers.

yea.. actually i looked him up.. it seems Marshall was as good as Wasim.. sorry for my ignorance.. didn't know Marshall was this good..

+Avishek Biswas Appreciate the positive reply. Both Wasim and Marshall were truly great bowlers and masters of their craft. There really isn't a whole lot in it between the two. Both about as good as it gets...

The Truth!!!!!

Aint that the sad truth!

all thanks to thugs in ICC BS

hahahhahahahaha

these days despite having road tracks .. draws are rare

McGrath is medium pace bowler,fielders have more reaction time, wasim was fast during his early career,not easy to catch 145+ mph bowl flying at you. Less reaction time.

@@rodyinjapan Nope. Reaction time for the slip fielders and the wicket keeper won't change much irrespective of the difference in the bowling speed because the wicket keeper and the slip fielders have the option of standing back further to faster bowlers. The slip cordon would be standing much closer to the batsman when someone like McGrath is bowling and they would be standing further back when someone like Lee or Akhtar is bowling. Only the batsman and the umpire would have to deal with lesser reaction time because it's always 22 yards for them.

davis moirangthem you are dead wrong,I played professional till the age of 18 for Pakistan capital team under 18. If you think nick from fast bowler is easy to catch at slip you are mistaken. You can’t push slip too much back otherwise you won’t be able to catch. It will bounce before you.

@@rodyinjapan I never said slip catching is easy. In fact, the reason there are slip specialists is because slip catching is one of the hardest thing to do on the field. I was talking about your reasoning that slip catching to Mc Grath would be easier than slip catching to Wasim because of reaction time. My point was that the reaction time would more or less be similar in both the cases because of the adjustable distance of the slip fielders from the batsman. An adjustment of 3-5 yards gives a slip fielder ample time to react. As a matter of fact, a difference of 2 yards in length makes the the difference between a good delivery and a bad delivery because of the extra time a batsman gets in the latter. In either case, reaction time cannot be an excuse for dropping catches at the slip cordon.

both are recommendations on KZfaq are the same. I saw you commenting on conan with Jeff goldblum as the guest and now you're here

Sorabh what is this behavior? Commenting on random videos and that too of Pakistani players, go to Pakistan, you anti-national.

@@SMA265 sarcasm nice

@@abhisheksikdar2329 I wish we could have some of your comedians, you have too many of them. Export some, please.

@@SMA265 we don't do that in sports..

IGA Media always give attention to only batsman Why?

If india controls ICC then ICC will make game in favor of batsman thats very simple

IGA Bring in good bowlers, and you still see a sizzler. T-20 has really hyped the batsmen and people come to see long sixes. Very few people want the bowling, as the bother paid with the mind of batsman before getting him out

It is very unfortunate. A cricket lover

ICC should eliminate the 2 balls rule in ODIs, and reverse swing will come back. Then its definitely more interesting to watch ODI cricket.

His ageing and declining health and grief at Tony Grieg's passing has seen him only do his home town boxing day test since 2012 up until last season when he hung up the microphone for good of his own accord. With Grieg and Benaud passed away, and Lawry retiring, the 12th man Billy Birmingham may have to find a real job for the first time in his life ....

Yes correct!! It was great ball and so close to getting him the hat trick!

I don't think so... Benaud meant what he obviously said. But tye bigger question is... Did Pakistan win😂😂😂

@@yesbose Batting let them down

Drs worked also for batsman

then 700 wickets in test not a big deal

@@Sport-yc6xg jealousy

Nikhil Kelkar rightly said..Harsha shouldn't have been dropped

It's so.sad .. do you mean to say bill Lawry was dropped .. when ..?? Could you please explain it to.me...

Nikhil Kelkar even that was pretty fair comment

Harsha rarely strikes a negative tone with the Indian team. As fine a commentator he is, it always seems his words are reluctantly filtered. He supports India too much for my liking, but the nationalist zeitgeist apparently deemed it not enough.

Nikhil Kelkar Bill Lawry and Tony Greig were able to pump life in any dead match. Classic 💕

82 catches were dropped on his bowling 53 of those were in slip cordon

Could ve taken

Sub se zaida india ki gand mari ha 90s me 😂😂😂😂 khailna he chor dia tha pakistan se 😂😂😂foran rone lag jate the indian crickter 😂😂😂....

1 brings 2 and so on, stupid pak fielders

+rahul raj . nice

rahul raj loved your positive comment while others can only make fun of it. god bless you

Clocked a few around 150kph once the speed gun was introduced around the time of Shoaib and Lee emerged. Robelinda might have footage. Wasim was well above 145kph and Waqar was quicker still.

Mack3nzie Dravid I remember him in a series in South Africa, he'd just come back from injury: first three deliveries beat Gary Kirsten for pace, the ball just carried through beautifully, keeper would take it reverse-grip every second ball. Sure, he was quick when he was young. And Waqar Younis? Well - he must have been damn near 160 clicks. My favorite spells of fast bowling from the early 90's: Ambrose against England 1990: speed on par with Patrick Patterson, probably a whisker quicker than prime Michael Holding - or at least Jeffrey Doujon seems to think so. Then there was that one over of pure insanity from Danny Morrison at the SCG in 1991: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7lmiK9qlZanZH0.html - just watch this, it's frightening. Guy's 5 ft. 9 - lashing the ball in at what looks like 95 miles an hour. Morrison had to bowl within himself for most of his career because of a torn deltoid: when he was on form and injury-free he was probably about as quick as Allan Donald. Steve Waugh said he was right on par with him: that makes Morrison pre-injury about as fast as Waqar pre-injury. Then there was Devon Malcolm at Perth in 1995. Are we suuuuure he didn't break the 100-mile barrier? I'm not. And there was that time when Dean Jones asked Curtly Ambrose to remove his wristband. And Javagal Srinath in England about 1996, the time when he clocked 156 point something. Nevermind the ONE delivery, he was going past the outside edge for fun at that stage; when the whole world thought the "Indian fast bowler" was a mythological creature that didn't actually exist. Allan Donald at the Wanderers against England in 1995, just brutal. ... and pretty much any time Waqar played against India.

yeah lots of sympathy for someone who is paid to do something and fails

Settle down mate.....

@@davewalkeden6932 may I know what heart you the most from my statement

He's got plenty of competition for that number 1 spot, mate.....

@@davewalkeden6932 like whome. Send some example.

Ok, Riz. Here's the short version. I love Wasim Akram. I agree he's the best left arm bowler I've seen. Period. Alan Davidson was probably his closest competitor. Ok, here we go. Check out Waqar Younis and his inswinging yorkers. Richard Hadlee and his perfect outswingers. Malcolm Marshall. Curtley Ambrose. Joel Garner. Michael Holding. Imran Khan. Glenn McGrath. Dennis Lillee. Allan Donald. And check out Jeff Thomson - probably the fastest bowler that ever played the beautiful game. That's a few from the last 40 years. Hope that helps! 😁😁

sdroy84agt So youre saying Pakistan dropped 130 catches off the bowling of Wasim Akram over his career. hmmm... yeh thats probably accurate.

sdroy84agt that's true but i can't comprehend how Waqar has a way better strike rate than Wasim (43 to 54) In test cricket S/R is more important than Ave.

kison SL Thats simply because Waqar was almost as good a wicket taker as Akram (though no where as good a bowler). Waqar was quicker and got more swing but Akram was far more subtle. Also NZ helped Waqar's strike rate a lot with their incompetent batting against him!!

sdroy84agt WAQAR WAS ALWAYS BLOWING HOT AND COLD. HE WAS EITHER TOO GOOD OR TOO ORDINARY AND EXPENSIVE AT TIMES. WASIM WAS MORE CONSISTENT. WAQAR IN MY OPINION WAS A BIGGER MATCH WINNER THAN WASIM.

+Rohini Kap The reason why there's a difference in strike rates is because it was Wasim who would be toiling on a flat deck, in the heat, on a sunny afternoon to break a set partnership, and as soon as the partnership was broken, Waqar would be brought on to wipe the tail. Wasim was the more skillful, Waqar was the better finisher.

Pak still got back in the game in the 2nd innings and were set for an unlikely win when Marsh took a blinder of Ijaz who has scored a hundred before 4 dubious leg before decisions sent Aus 1-0 in the series.

umpires those days preferred home teams

I haven't checked the scorecard, but if those lbws were to Terry Alderman then there would have been nothing dubious about them. He was coming off the 1989 series where the English umpires gave him 19 lbws, simply because he bowled right next to the stumps.

9 .... ... ). . . ...o

The commentator was absolutely gem.

vvvvvvvvv Add waqar too

Oh adams Add Akhtar too

and Amir too

Mansoor Qaisrani bhai, Amir came much after this golden time. Here we r talking abuot the time when the best fast bowling trivio of Akram, waqar and akhtar were playing.

+vvvvvvvvv indeed.

imran Khan captaincy