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#wasim akram

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Wasim Akram Match Fixing Allegations

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.

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Wasim Akram's Relentless Battle Against Michael Atherton

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.

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Wasim Akram's Reverse Swing Dismantles Graham Gooch at Lord's 1992

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.

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Wasim Akram's Two Wickets in Two Balls — 1992 World Cup Final

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.

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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.

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