Save your Toes: 6 Bowlers with best Yorkers

Save your Toes: 6 Bowlers with best Yorkers: The sight of a Yorker screeching under the bat and scrambling the stumps has grown less common recently, as various bowling theories are tried to counter the increasingly brazen batsmen and their hitting prowess. But be it any batsman, on any pitch, at any time, a good Yorker can turn an innings. It is a difficult ball to negotiate, even for a well set batsman.

Bowling a Yorker is not about having a natural talent for it, but it’s more about practicing so that you can get it right under pressure. But if it is such a lethal delivery why don’t bowlers try it more often? This is because the Yorker is not an easy delivery to bowl, a minor mistake in pitching one can either result in a full toss or half-volley which can be easily dispatched. They are also popularly referred as sandshoe crusher, toe crusher, cobbler’s delight or nail breaker. Here we have a look at some of the great bowlers who mastered this art.

Save your Toes: 6 Bowlers with best Yorkers:

1. Wasim Akram:

One can never keep Pakistani’s out of such lists and Wasim Akram is one of those who perfected the art of bowling probably the most lethal and the one with the best results, inswinging Yorkers. His ability to ball six wicket-taking deliveries in an over was the standout feature. The result was batsmen had no way out of the predicament. Akram had the unique ability to bowl Yorkers with great accuracy. His Yorkers are often summarized as “You save your legs, the stump goes for a walk and you save the stumps, then you cannot walk”. The legendary pacer finished with 502 ODI wickets which is the second highest after Muttiah Muralitharan.

Quick Link – Watch: Wasim Akram bowls an amazing Yorker and effects an incredible runout vs India