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Waqar Younis No-Ball Controversy in World Cup

Pakistan vs Various

1 March 2003

Pakistan captain Waqar Younis came under scrutiny during the 2003 World Cup for bowling an unusually high number of no-balls, raising suspicions of spot-fixing.

#waqar younis#pakistan#world cup
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Waqar Younis's Yorker Campaign Against Brian Lara

West Indies vs Pakistan

1993-04-16

Waqar Younis's relentless inswinging yorker campaign against Brian Lara during Pakistan's 1993 West Indies tour — targeting the left-hander's front foot with full-pitched deliveries that swung late — produced one of cricket's most technically demanding bowler-batsman duels.

#waqar-younis#brian-lara#1993
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Waqar Younis Destroys Graeme Hick — Reversing English Batsmen, 1992

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.

#waqar younis#graeme hick#headingley
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Waqar Younis's Yorker Campaign Against Alec Stewart

England vs Pakistan

1992-06-04

Waqar Younis repeatedly targeted Alec Stewart's front foot with devastating inswinging yorkers throughout the 1990s, making Stewart's dismissal — bowled or LBW — a recurring pattern that defined both men's careers as a study in attacking strategy against a technically orthodox batsman.

#waqar-younis#alec-stewart#1990s
Serious

Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis — Inventors of Reverse Swing

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.

#wasim-akram#waqar-younis#reverse-swing