5 bowlers who bowled with extreme pace despite having an unusually short run-up

#1 Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram

The former Pakistan great is arguably one of the greatest fast bowlers to have ever played the game and he is rightly called the 'sultan of swing' owing to the vast arsenal of tricks he had up his sleeve.

However, what is often forgotten is that he could be as quick as the fastest bowlers of his era when he wanted to and Akram did it all from a run up that was no more than 7-8 steps at most.

When he first started off playing for Pakistan back in 1984, he had a much longer run up but after a few seasons he altered it and it is one of the reasons that he was able to radiate through in both forms of the game till 31.

Akram had great strength in the shoulder and coming off that sort of a run-up, he could generate serious pace that often had the batsmen hopping. That said, he was not truly deceptive since batsmen all over the world were aware of the fact that Akram could let it rip off that short run up whenever he wanted.