9. Wasim Akram
A dream cricketer. A stunning match winner. A complete mastery over seam and swing. He gave new dimensions, angles and attack lines to left-arm fast bowling. He could bowl anything and everything. He could bowl four balls on the same spot on good length and still do four different things to behavior of the ball thereafter. The bigger the game, the bigger the game-changer was Akram.
10. Shane Warne
At first, there was chubbiness. Then came wild and soaring leg-breaks, followed by top-spin and flippers. No bowler personifies the art of the leg-break as much as Shane Warne does. He kept getting batsmen bowled. He get kept getting them lbw. He kept getting them 'What the Heck'. He had almost no right to, but he did repeatedly. An extraordinary bowler, a larger than life personality.
11. Michael Holding
The 'Whispering Death'. He invented the most elegant long-striding run-up to bowling. The batsmen tended not to watch him all the way lest they became mesmerized. Not overlooking his extraordinary feats elsewhere, the act of force majeure in the summer of 1976 at The Oval has immortalized him. The bowler was Holding, the batsmen were history.
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