The creator of the lesson for fast bowling...
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| Wasim Akram |
The one who smashed the batsman's arrogant!
He will focus on many things like where the batsman stands on that day, how much he uses both the front foot and the back foot, how his wrists work, how his hands and eyes work together.
To the batsmen, who gave to batsman's many troubles in the inswing bowling, out swinging master, father of the reverse swing, he is swing legend.
All six balls of his bowling over will be different, six bullets. the magic of bowling at 145 Km/h. Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Stark, Trent Bolt are recent talent crickets, but Despite being the best left-arm bowlers, Someone who had previously left Pakistan as an alien, neither before nor since. As an encyclopedia of left-handed fast bowling, he has touched all shores and perpetuated his image in the time mirror.
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| Wasim Akram - King of Swing |
In the early 80s.
Akram stepped into the team at a time when Pakistan was threatening the world with a reverse swing. He made his debut at a time when the idea that only fast bowling balls were enough to take a wicket was deeply ingrained in the minds of the people. However, his style is slightly different. In addition to speed, the right line and length had the speed of the arrow on the balls thrown.
Going down the field, observing stump to stump, he will notice many things like where the batsman stands that day, what he uses most in both front foot and back foot, how his wrist work is, and how his hands and eyes work in unison. Accordingly, Akram's style is to lay out plans on the field and get them done perfectly. The only time he takes for this is time for a run-up.
Akram will not run away from the audience. He has short run-up and fast arm action. Within that short time of walking away from the batsman and starting to run back, the planning for the next ball in his mind is over. He will decide what the next bowling swing or yorker or bouncer will be. Sometimes, even as a plan for the overall over, it will be.
Even when he won the 1992 World Cup for Pakistan, it was in such an over. Not only did Ian Botham take the wicket first, but that single over, in which he also took the wickets of Alan Lamb and Chris Lewis. tells what kind of cricketing brain his. To this day, Despite the decoding of how the balls could have been played, no one could say for sure.
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| Wasim Akram |
The tactics of Akram.
Thus, among the bowlers who bowled without giving the batsman any chance, Akram was the key. His other technique is to come round and throw the wicket. No matter what great batsman it is, it will shake them up a bit.
Another tactic Akram used was to throw the balls, hidden from view, by the batsmen until they were out of his hands. It was very useful for Akram, in the latter overs of throwing worn balls. Thus, the batsman, noticing that his side is on the sidelines and anticipating a reverse swing, cannot be prepared in advance and, in the opening overs, can not guess whether the inswing is coming or outswing by looking at the seam area of the ball. This will keep the batsman in a state of tension and confusion. In addition to the speed of the ball, it reaches the hood in microseconds, the batsmen will not be able to understand what kind of ball it is, the wickets will be snatched out.
For these reasons, when the wicket does not fall in the middle overs, the ball goes into the hands of Akram. He throws six balls in six types, with little to no breathing interval for the batsmen. If you expect a yorker to mark the feet, bouncers will come and hit the head. If you expect a bouncer, slow balls will come. Just in time to think that Slowball is coming, the Block Hole will come and hit the ball and make it stable. With astonishing variations, Akram's plus point was that he kept threatening the batsman.
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| Wasim Akram |
Later, Akram rocked world cricket by swinging with Waqar Younis. not playing domestic cricket, he came into the team in a double promotion, he collected the experiential knowledge. In Imran Khan's workshop, it took Akram two to three months to learn his arm swings. Imran Khan and Mudassar Nasser are his masters in this art.
In the early days, the pace of bowling, which used to be called `speed is vice', actually slowed down over the years, after 99 World Cups. Akram, however, started bowling technically to the point of skilful bowling. It was not until 1991 that he learned to throw slow balls. Similarly, he took wickets with the swinging yorkers and took the fast bowling to another level. The reason for his success was that he kept renewing himself.
All of this made the legendary Vivian Richards, one of the bowlers who bowled for him, the most dangerous and aggressive.
"Fortunately, in the final years of my career, he came," V.Richards said.
If he was born to bat, he would not have said that about other batsmen. From Sachin and Dravid to Lara and Pointing, many have said the same thing.
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| Wasim Akram |
In England, Australia and South Africa, his bouncers are enough to threaten. Even if it is a flat pitch, if one can guarantee the availability of a wicket, it is Akram. That's why he dominated everything Test or ODIs. Wasim Akram, who has taken 502 wickets in ODIs, has also taken 414 wickets in Tests. Including both formats, it includes 31 five-wicket hauls and 5 ten-wicket halls.
"Learn to swing the balls, which is what will take you to the next levels in Redball cricket, and that too when playing abroad. If you get used to the swing and increase the pace, you can become an amazing left-arm bowler."
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