5 best yorkers in the world right now

#4 Mitchell Starc

If you are thinking of an inswinging yorker at 150 kmph that breaks stumps and leaves batsmen clueless, you need to take Mitchell Starc into account. It’s the ball with which Starc dismissed the legendary Jacques Kallis in the BBL and Brendon McCullum in the World Cup.

Because Starc’s natural angle as a left-armer bowling over the wicket takes the ball away from right-handed batsmen, the fast, inswinging Yorker becomes a potent weapon. And when Starc is at his best, his yorkers are simply unplayable.

“I’ve spent a lot of time on trying to get it right,” Starc said in his interview with The Australian.

“A lot of work has gone into it, trying to get it right. Alan Davidson was part of the Western Suburbs cricket club in Sydney, where I’m from, and he always mentioned something like, ‘Your final six balls at practice should be yorkers’."