Who was the best bowler of reverse swing?

[Starfighter]

It didn't work though, a dull four test drawn series.

Par for the course in Pakistan back then. You'd have struggled to dismiss teams at Karachi even if you bowled live hand grenades.

Someone posted an except from Wasim's book on Reddit the other say, where he claims the reverse swing in England was caused by the lack of boundary ropes, the ball going in concrete gutters and paths and hitting advertising hoardings and fences.
The problem is ropes were very commonly used in England back then (unlike Australia), concrete gutters and bowlers polishing the ball coexisted for decades before and hoardings are flat and shouldn't gouge the ball unless they catch a sharp exposed edge. Somehow the marks managed to confine themselves to one side of the ball and were of a character generally not described since. I prefer the video evidence myself.

 

[subshakerz]

Par for the course in Pakistan back then. You'd have struggled to dismiss teams at Karachi even if you bowled live hand grenades.

Someone posted an except from Wasim's book on Reddit the other say, where he claims the reverse swing in England was caused by the lack of boundary ropes, the ball going in concrete gutters and paths and hitting advertising hoardings and fences.
The problem is ropes were very commonly used in England back then (unlike Australia), concrete gutters and bowlers polishing the ball coexisted for decades before and hoardings are flat and shouldn't gouge the ball unless they catch a sharp exposed edge. Somehow the marks managed to confine themselves to one side of the ball and were of a character generally not described since. I prefer the video evidence myself.

They also used to throw the ball on a scuffed side deliberately on the exposed section near a pitch on the way to the bowler.

Anyways, its all par for the course.

 

[trundler]

They also used to throw the ball on a scuffed side deliberately on the exposed section near a pitch on the way to the bowler.

Anyways, its all par for the course.

Everyone did it but shame those uppity Pakistanis were better at it than the rest, basically. And let's ignore the incredible skill.

 

[Prince EWS]

They also used to throw the ball on a scuffed side deliberately on the exposed section near a pitch on the way to the bowler.

Going a bit off topic but I definitely think these bounce throws should be entirely legal. It's not really policed much but the 'crackdown' on it was ****ing ridiculous.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Reverse swing has many schools

bottle cap school
jelly bean - Murray mint school
sand paper school
nail art school
genuine school

pick where each will fit in.

Hmm and which school was it?

 

[Migara]

It was well known that Chaminda Vaas used bottle caps tbh

Yeah. he kept his bottles firmly capped.

 

[Migara]

Would be surprised if Vaas or Kapil didnt occasionally gouge the ball out during their younger days.

Kapil and Prabhakar were caught on camera in 94/94 SL series picking seams

 

[Ashes81]

Waqar was unbelievably good at reverse swing and had that extra pace as well.

When they toured England, we'd not seen reverse swing like that before. It went against all previous methods of swing bowling.

Was any reverse swing legal, who knows, but Waqar was a genius at it - it was easier against the new ball than it was batting in the middle order.