5 best exponents of the outswinger in cricket history

#3 Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram

Any conversation about swing bowling is perhaps incomplete without including possibly the greatest swing bowler ever. Wasim Akram could make the ball swerve either way and that made him an extremely difficult bowler to face. He could toy with the batsmen with his outswingers in both forms of the game, and the fact that he could just as easily bend it the other way made his outswingers deadlier.

Batsmen often found themselves in two minds and that was a big factor in his outswingers being so much more potent. On the other hand, one expects fast bowlers to bowl the outswinging delivery with the new ball and while Akram did so, he was perhaps deadlier with the old one as he swung it late and viciously.

Some of the world's best batsmen were often made to look completely out of their depth when he was in the middle of one of those spells.