i consider myself fortunate i grew up watching this legend bowl. kids these days don't know what they are missing.

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The greatest fast bowler the sport has ever seen.

If I love any cricketer, like I mean really unconditional love to an extent that he is GOD of bowling for me, ITS WASIM AKRAM!!

I haven't seen anybody (and I know nobody would ever)have such control over the ball. The cricket ball was a toy for wasim and he could really take a wicket by saying it out LOUD

hmm nice

he didn't had such control you know, he did bowl a variety of wides

how old are you grandpa?

anyway i'll say that i was fortunate to grew up watching the likes of shoaib akhar, saqlain mushtaq, world twenty20 2009, asia cup 2000 & 2012 and many other memorable moments and players.

when i first saw wasim, i thought he was very old and he was old

exhibit A ladies and gentlemen!

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don't be so sensitive

people dont give waqar his due credit, if he played as many as wasim's odis and test matches he wouldve had waaaay waaay more wickets!

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not that wasim akram was a mug or anything but personally i liked waqar's bowling and attitude more!

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Man you guys don't know what you are talking about

If somebody likes Waqar or saqlain over wasim, he should shoot himself in his head......Its blasphemy and total nonsense to compare wasim akram to any other bowler

One can argue if marshal or lilly was as good as wasim but saqlain or waqar.....HuH!!!

Waqar Younis was my favorite fast bowler of all time. Always has been and always will be.

But that doesn't mean I am equating him with Wasim Akram. I grew up watching Waqar's toe crushing yorkers and all the aggression he brought in the game, it riled up whole Pakistan nation. Back in early 90s when two Ws were on the rise, it was easy to say that Waqar's bowling was the exclamation point. But then Wasim revived and revived like no one else has ever in Cricket. World Cricket hasn't seen a bigger fast bowler than Wasim and it will be really hard to bring another one like him. Waqar, on the other hand become emulation for modern fast bowlers. In every street of Pakistan there was a Waqar Younis. Shoaib Akhtar himself was a Second Waqar Younis of Pakistan Cricket. He said in his book that he brought pace and aggression after following Waqar's bowling.

Waqar has achieved some unique feats which no other fast bowler from any era has ever achieved. Like the ratio of Bowled and LBW among his test and ODI wickets is just phenomenal, no other bowler is even close to that which tells that how much of a individual talent Waqar had compared to any other bowler of his era. His bowling was never dependent, it was truly the exclamation point.

I do agree that there will never be a Wasim Akram, but I haven't seen another Waqar Younis either. This is where I have differences with both Wasim and Waqar that there ego came in the way of new fast bowlers and like Imran Khan prepared these two before leaving, they never prepared their successors.

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though tone of you guys wouldve posted my video here, after cricinfo posted that Alec stewart interview i dug up the famous spell in question

Wasim inarguably the best left arm seamer ever, but he is not the best fast bowler ever.

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