Sohaib Maqsood: “For God’s sake, make some changes! He is still stuck on the same yorker. Why can’t he get it through his head that if yorkers aren’t getting wickets, he should also learn to bowl length deliveries”
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Pakistan batsman Sohaib Maqsood has questioned why ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi keeps relying on yorkers to get wickets.
Munaf Patel: “Shoaib Akhtar lost both his knees and could not walk properly but he used to bowl at 155 kph in Asian conditions, only his madness helped him play for 14-15 years in cricket”
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Former India seamer Munaf Patel admitted it is truly remarkable that Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar was able to bowl at 155 kph despite losing “both his knees” and not being able to walk properly.
Stuart Broad: “[He] bowled me a yorker trying to hit my stumps and it missed the stumps. I missed it, didn’t even see it, and it flew through to the keeper. And I thought, oh yeah, oh yeah, that’s proper quick”
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Former England speedster Stuart Broad recalled facing iconic Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar and thinking he was “proper quick.”
Wasim Akram: “the whole world now knows the plan against him. They say, ‘Okay, he’ll be bowling yorkers first up.’ So Afridi needs to have a Plan B”
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Pakistan fast bowling great Wasim Akram has called out left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi for being too predictable when bowling and urged him to develop a “Plan B”.
Ali Raza: “I want to have Shoaib Akhtar’s speed, Wasim Akram’s swing and Waqar Younis’ yorker”
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Pakistan pace bowler Ali Raza has expressed his desire to bowl as fast as iconic speedster Shoaib Akhtar.
Brad Haddin: “The yorker. No, I didn’t wear one. It’s hard to hit a moving target”
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Former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin is thankful that he never got hit by one of Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s toe-crushing yorkers.
Wasim Akram: “He has only two types of deliveries. Either he will bowl a yorker or keep straight. The world knows about his bowling now, and the batters are prepared to take him on. He doesn’t know how to take the ball away from the batter”
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Pakistan pace icon Wasim Akram has lambasted left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi for only having two types of deliveries, saying it has made him predictable.
Aamer Jamal: “In Pakistan, I don’t want to bowl to Azam (Khan)”
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Pakistan seamer Aamer Jamal has admitted that he never likes to bowl to wicketkeeper-batsman Azam Khan because he “has hit me very badly”.
Usain Bolt: “Over the years, one of my favourites growing up was Wasim Akram because of the in-swinging yorker that he had”
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Legendary Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt said iconic Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram was “one of my favourites growing up” as he loved his in-swinging yorkers.
Naseem Shah: “I was bowling at him and I bowled a yorker and the ball was reversing. It was a perfect yorker and he ran it down to third man, I felt this was unfair”
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Pakistan seamer Naseem Shah admitted he was shocked at how easily batsman Babar Azam played his reverse swinging yorker when they battled against each other in the 2024 Pakistan Super League (PSL).
