Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh
In the 13 Tests Steve Waugh played vs Wasim Akram, the Australian legend was dismissed four times by the Pakistani superstar. In their most thrilling battle, however, Waugh survived some of Akram’s fiercest bowling, showing his legendary toughness. In the 1994 Rawalpindi Test, Akram was presented with a green pitch and decided to test Waugh’s well-documented vulnerability against the short ball.
“It was the quickest, meanest spell, I’d ever seen,” Waugh wrote of Akram’s barrage in his autobiography, Out of My Comfort Zone. “Wasim either didn’t like me or I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing was in my half of the wicket and it was all genuinely quick, the ball leaping off the pitch with spite and venom.”
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Waugh hopped about but, crucially, survived, and got 98 before playing on against Waqar Younis. The effort earned him Akram’s respect. “He didn’t middle a ball in my spell – I was beating him, and he was leaving a lot of balls,” Akram told the Sydney Morning Herald. “But he stood there and got 98 and that was very, very impressive. I just wanted to kill him, as a bowler. That was probably the quickest I’ve ever bowled.”
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