One of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket in Wasim Akram has selected a total of 5 batters whom he considers as the all time best batsmen. He was nicknamed as “sultans of swing” which encapsulates his bowling in one word. He had all the tricks that a fast bowler could ever have under his armory.
The bowler who made the batters to dance to his tunes during his playing days is considered as one of the best exponent of reverse swing bowling which is considered as one of the difficult ball to tackle for a batter. An art that is almost diminished in ODI cricket at present due to 2 new ball rule.
The left arm quick was the latest to make the predictions and this time he chose the greatest batters that the world has ever seen. He picked 5 batters and the most underrated Kiwi legend in Martin Crowe was one of them. The former Kiwi right hand batsman was one of the very few batters to keep Wasim Akram at bay which in itself is a huge achievement to say the least. He played 77 tests and 143 ODIs and has scored 5444 and 4704 runs respectively. He handled the reverse swing of Wasim Akram with utmost ease and it was only expected that Wasim Akram picked this Kiwi legend.
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The next on the list was the destructive and fearless batsman in Sir Viv Richards from West Indies. The man who played aggressive cricket which was new during the 80s is someone who will find a place in all time batsmen list of everyone.
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One of the weird picks that the southpaw made was his country mate and former Pakistan captain in Inzamam-uh Haq. The world cup winner in Inzamam-ul-Haq was one of the underrated batters of his times but his place in the all time list is definitely up for debate.
The remaining two names were the West Indies great in Brian Lara and the master blaster from India in Sachin Tendulkar. The yorker specialist in Wasim Akram has bowled to all the batsmen except Viv Richards which he considers himself as lucky to not have bowled to one of the ruthless batsman in cricket.