5 of the best death bowlers in World Cup history

#4. Waqar Younis

There was once a time when there wasn’t another bowler who could pick up wickets as easily as Waqar Younis. Whenever you switched on the TV after a Pakistan game, Younis almost always had 4-5 wickets to his name.

Such was his prowess that one could sense a feeling of surrender creeping into the batsman’s mind while playing him.

While Wasim Akram was the king of swing, Waqar Younis made a name for himself with fiery pace and cutters that were very difficult to deal with for the batsmen.

With the ball dropping well outside off, the batsman could be relaxed about his stump not getting shattered. If only.

The ball dropped on the seam and then jagged in, either getting the batsman out LBW or uprooting his stumps off the ground. With the older ball, he could produce great reverse swing and that is what made him one of the greatest death bowlers of all time.