Good bowling is all about brains
Wasim Akram in the Hindustan Times talks about how he mastered the kind of variation that saw him bowl six different balls an over and what pacemen have to do to prevail in a game that's now loaded in favour of batsmen.
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
Wasim Akram in the Hindustan Times talks about how he mastered the kind of variation that saw him bowl six different balls an over and what pacemen have to do to prevail in a game that's now loaded in favour of batsmen.
The other rather simple but significant lesson I learnt was that a batsman is at his most vulnerable when he faces his first ball. The bowler has just had success while the batsman is still not sure about his footwork, his approach or his game plan. This is why I used to delight in bowling to a new batsman.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo