ICC vs Bowlers Worldwide
2020-07-08
The ICC's temporary COVID-era ban on using saliva to shine the cricket ball became permanent in 2022, eliminating a century-old ball-maintenance practice and permanently disadvantaging bowlers — a decision that continues to divide the sport.
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
15 June 2000
Waqar Younis was found guilty of ball tampering during an ODI against Sri Lanka after he was caught scratching the ball to generate reverse swing.
England vs Pakistan
July 1992
Waqar Younis's brutal reverse-swing yorker campaign against English batsmen in the 1992 series — particularly Graeme Hick — was one of cricket's most devastating bowling attacks. Hick was repeatedly bowled or LBW as Waqar's late-swinging yorkers crashed into the stumps and toes, leaving England batsmen baffled and bruised.
England vs Pakistan
1992-08-06
Wasim Akram's decade-long pursuit of Michael Atherton's wicket through devastating reverse swing and inswing produced one of cricket's most compelling ongoing rivalries — England's most determined opener against the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time.
England vs Pakistan
1992-06-18
Wasim Akram's reverse-swinging deliveries at Lord's in 1992 — dismissing Graham Gooch with a delivery that moved late and sharply to hit the top of off stump — epitomised Pakistan's mastery of a bowling art that England could neither replicate nor counter.
England vs Pakistan
1992-06-04
Waqar Younis repeatedly targeted Alec Stewart's front foot with devastating inswinging yorkers throughout the 1990s, making Stewart's dismissal — bowled or LBW — a recurring pattern that defined both men's careers as a study in attacking strategy against a technically orthodox batsman.
Pakistan vs England
1992-03-25
With England seemingly in control of the 1992 World Cup Final chase, Wasim Akram dismissed Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis with consecutive balls using devastating reverse swing — the two wickets that sealed Pakistan's first and only World Cup title.
Pakistan vs various
1992-01-01
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis developed reverse swing — the technique of making an old cricket ball swing away from the seam rather than toward it — into a weapon so potent it won Pakistan a World Cup final and changed the Laws of cricket twice.