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Well there's been quite a few players who could swing it both ways, however as you mentioned mastery that really does narrow it down a lot. My nomination would be Akram, they didn't call him the King of Swing for nothing. I'll never forget that ball to Allan Lamb in the '92 WC. Waqar swung it prodigiously too though it was with the old ball that he was especially dangerous. Malcolm Marshall could do it all. Imran Khan swung it both ways beautifully. Botham and Kapil Dev were very good exponents of conventional swing too. There have been a number of decent swing bowlers, Hoggard, Sidebottom briefly and Zaheer Khan recently. Anderson can swing it both ways nicely given the conditions, but his hideous inconsistency holds him back, personally I believe it's because of his action, it's conducive to swing but difficult to repeat. I thought Jason Gillespie given the conditions could swing it both ways well. Shoaib Akhtar could be absolutely deadly with those inswinging yorkers and high speed away swingers, though again I'd say he was stronger with the old ball. I'm not sure Shane Bond swung the ball back in too much but his away swinger was awesome. I've seen few bowlers with as much control over swing as Chaminda Vaas, often forgotten but he could move it both ways pretty much on a string at times.
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