Well Done Wasim

[CricketGuru]

Congratulation to Wasim Akram on taking his 500+ wickets in one day international. In my point of view the best swing bowler of all time. 8D

 

[Anil]

Congratulation to Wasim Akram on taking his 500+ wickets in one day international. In my point of view the best swing bowler of all time. 8D

Certainly the best left arm pacer of all time.

 

[Gotchya]

Among the all time greats, probably will go down as the all time greatest left arm pacer, and ranked very highly as the exponent of swing, seam and yorkers. The way he's playing right now, there seems to be no ending this man. A month ago we were wondering wether he would make it to the 500 mark, he's done it in 4 games.

The magnitude of the achievement is staggering though, next on the wickets list, Waqar Younis, 100 wickets away, Murali 200 away....

 

[Langeveldt]

Absolutely brilliant. He has come back from a lot of low points and just keeps getting better.

 

[marc71178]

I must admit to being one who doubted he'd make it (mainly because I didn't expect him to be used against the minnows), but fair play to him, he did it (and also bowled the second ever 100+ mph ball in history on Saturday apparently)

 

[marc71178]

Re: Re: Well Done Wasim

Certainly the best left arm pacer of all time.

Methinks you are doing Alan Mullally a grave dis-service!

 

[krkode]

Re: Re: Re: Well Done Wasim

Methinks you are doing Alan Mullally a grave dis-service!

Who's he?:rolleyes: just kidding :P

Yes, Akram is definitely Pakistan's greatest match winner! Cheers to him!

 

[Rik]

Well done Wasim, I doubted you would be in the squad 2 years ago when you were touring England but fair play you've become a record breaker!

 

[Bazza]

I also doubted he would make it, once he announced this would be his last chance. I felt he had lost something in recent months and had become a shadow of his former self. Still nothing like a sneaky five for against a minnow nation to boost the old wickets column!

No doubt he is an all time great. Wisden marked him down as the best one day bowler of all time and who am I to argue with them, or for that matter a man with 900+ international wickets?!

PS: What have you got against 'spider'?? :!(

 

[Gotchya]

Its amazing at how many times in his career, I have thought that this was the last leap for good old Wasim.

The moment he started running in though, I knew that he's got something left in him still. As Symcox put it today : "He just doesn't throw it outside offstump for the fun of it, every delivery has some meaning to it", couldn't have summarised Wasim's bowling better.

 

[masterblaster]

Wasim is an absolute Legend, one of my all time favorite players. He has done his country proud, and he has given cricket a great deal.

Hats off to Wasim,

 

[wahindiawah]

Can anyone break Akram's record??? Closest is Waqar who probably won't get much matches after WC!! Warne's career is nearly over (atlest onedayers), Anil & Srinath are going to retire after WC, while Murali is planning to quit onedayers in order to play more test matches!!

I think only Saqlain can come near Akram, somone with 270+ wkts, but still far behind Akram!

 

[marc71178]

I think only Saqlain can come near Akram, somone with 270+ wkts, but still far behind Akram!

Isn't he only 24 or 25 though?

 

[R_Powell_fan]

Congratulations to Wasim Akram, as increadible as ever......certainly the greatest left arm pacer of all time.

(and also bowled the second ever 100+ mph ball in history on Saturday apparently)

Marc, could you please elaborate on that a bit.......:O :O

 

[full_length]

That was probably tongue in cheek. But it was uninformed.

He's talking about the speed gun reading 161+ for Wasim in the over following Shoiab's 161+. That was a human error - the speed gun was still displaying Shoiab's speed. I found this link from several days back with some difficulty:
http://www.rediff.com/wc2003/2003/feb/23shoaib.htm

 

[krkode]

That was probably tongue in cheek. But it was uninformed.

He's talking about the speed gun reading 161+ for Wasim in the over following Shoiab's 161+. That was a human error - the speed gun was still displaying Shoiab's speed. I found this link from several days back with some difficulty:
http://www.rediff.com/wc2003/2003/feb/23shoaib.htm

The story in that link is pretty pathetic, and I agree with one of the comments there:

It is strange that ICC would want to believe in readings of older system measuring Jeff Thompson's delivery while suspecting much advanced new systems that ...