Wasim Akram says Jasprit Bumrah's yorker 'best in the world', credits tennis-ball cricket

Sudhir Gupta 16:47 20/01/2019
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    Pakistan pace-bowling legend Wasim Akram said India quick Jasprit Bumrah bowls the best yorker in international cricket and added playing tennis-ball cricket as a youngster sharpened his skills.

    Akram was the foremost exponent of reverse swing and pin-point yorkers in white and red-ball cricket and said the India pacer is the best in the business when it comes to bowling those toe-crushers.

    “Jasprit Bumrah has the best and the most effective yorker among fast bowlers playing international cricket now,” Akram was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.

    “What makes Bumrah special is his ability to bowl yorkers on a regular basis. The yorker is not only used for ODIs but for Test matches too as me and Waqar did in our times. Bumrah has an exceptional action, very different from other fast bowlers and yet he gets the ball to swing and also move off the deck at good pace,” Akram added.

    The Pakistan icon said growing up on tennis-ball cricket forced Bumrah to master the yorker.

    “If you see, whether it’s me coming from Pakistan or Bumrah coming from India, we are all products of tennis-ball cricket. When you play gully cricket with buildings on both sides and the batsman being deprived of playing cross-batted shots, they are forced to play straight then. And then you start pitching it up and in the process you learn to bowl at the base and prevent the batsman from going down the ground.”

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