The Sultan of Swing, considered one of the greatest fast bowlers ever. Named in match-fixing allegations by Justice Qayyum report but never formally charged.
12 incidents documented
Pakistan vs Australia
20 March 2015
Wahab Riaz bowled a fearsome spell of fast bowling to Shane Watson in the World Cup quarter-final, hitting him multiple times and sledging aggressively.
Pakistan vs Various
1 May 2000
Pakistan legend Wasim Akram was named in the Justice Qayyum report as being unable to be exonerated from match-fixing allegations, though he escaped a ban.
Pakistan vs Various
23 May 2000
Pakistani fast bowler Ata-ur-Rehman received a life ban following the Qayyum Commission findings, becoming the second Pakistani cricketer banned for life along with Saleem Malik.
India vs Pakistan
1999-02-07
Anil Kumble became only the second bowler in Test history to take all 10 wickets in a single innings, finishing with 10/74 as Pakistan were bowled out for 207 — a performance that, like Laker's, required near-perfect conditions and one man to be utterly unplayable.
England vs Pakistan
July 1992
Waqar Younis's brutal reverse-swing yorker campaign against English batsmen in the 1992 series — particularly Graeme Hick — was one of cricket's most devastating bowling attacks. Hick was repeatedly bowled or LBW as Waqar's late-swinging yorkers crashed into the stumps and toes, leaving England batsmen baffled and bruised.
England vs Pakistan
1992-08-06
Wasim Akram's decade-long pursuit of Michael Atherton's wicket through devastating reverse swing and inswing produced one of cricket's most compelling ongoing rivalries — England's most determined opener against the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time.
England vs Pakistan
1992-06-18
Wasim Akram's reverse-swinging deliveries at Lord's in 1992 — dismissing Graham Gooch with a delivery that moved late and sharply to hit the top of off stump — epitomised Pakistan's mastery of a bowling art that England could neither replicate nor counter.
Pakistan vs England
1992-03-25
With England seemingly in control of the 1992 World Cup Final chase, Wasim Akram dismissed Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis with consecutive balls using devastating reverse swing — the two wickets that sealed Pakistan's first and only World Cup title.
New Zealand vs various
1992-02-22
Martin Crowe made 188 runs across New Zealand's 1992 World Cup campaign and 91 in their semi-final vs Pakistan — the tournament's leading scorer — alongside captaining a side that pioneered pinch-hitting and spin bowling tactics later adopted by the entire cricket world.
Pakistan vs various
1992-03-04
Imran Khan's Pakistan were on the verge of elimination in the 1992 World Cup — five losses in seven games. His 'Fight like cornered tigers' speech transformed the campaign. Pakistan won their next five matches, including the final, to lift their only World Cup trophy.
Pakistan vs various
1992-03-01
Pakistan entered the 1992 World Cup with a rain-affected, points-based format that threatened to eliminate them even before the knockouts. They won five consecutive matches including the final to lift their only World Cup — in Imran Khan's farewell tournament.
Pakistan vs various
1992-01-01
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis developed reverse swing — the technique of making an old cricket ball swing away from the seam rather than toward it — into a weapon so potent it won Pakistan a World Cup final and changed the Laws of cricket twice.