SkySports - Pace Like Fire - Ep03: Revolution

2016

A look back at the 1990s and the `reverse swing revolution', which was made famous by the likes of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis of Pakistan.

Here are some quotes from the brilliant series by Sky called Pace Like Fire. This episode was all about Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

Mike Atherton "Against Wasim and Waqar you could be 170 for 0, next thing you know, you are 200 all out"

Alec Stewart "Wasim and Waqar bowled balls you just could not play however good you were as a batsman"

David Lloyd "The pair of Wasim and Waqar will go down in history as one of the best pair of bowlers ever"

Wasim Akram "Waqar and I changed the psyche of bowling in world cricket with our reverse swing"

Waqar Younis "Our bowling rivalry helped Pakistan cricket. Wasim Akram was an inspiration for me"

Waqar Younis "Wasim was a great help to me. We learnt so much as bowlers from each other"

Wasim Akram "Waqar had his group of players and I had mine, but at the end of the day we were one team"

Wasim Akram "My philosophy was that if Waqar took 5 wickets in the first innings, I wanted to take 6 wickets in the second innings"

Wasim Akram "There was a clash of egos between Waqar and me, but we soon realized that if we did well, then Pakistan will succeed"

Alec Stewart "The 2 deliveries Wasim Akram bowled to Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis in the 1992 World Cup final are 2 of the best deliveries you will ever see"

Ramiz Raja "Waqar Younis when running in would shout to a batsman, watch out inswinging yorker coming & he'd still get them out"

Wasim Akram "reverse-swing was an art. You cannot just throw the old ball to any bowler and he will be able to reverse-swing it"

Waqar Younis "People loved reverse-swing. Many tried to do it, but couldn't manage to do it"

Waqar Younis "what some people said about Wasim & I regarding ball-tampering didn't bother us. It boosted us to do even better"

Wasim Akram "Nowadays it's called reverse-swing, but when Waqar & I did it, people called it ball-tampering"