Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis is a former Pakistani bowler, who is considered to be one of the greatest fast bowlers to have played the game.

He represented Pakistan in 87 Tests and 262 ODIs. Waqar’s ability to reverse swing the ball at lightning speeds helped him scalp 373 Test wickets and 416 ODI wickets in his career.

Nicknamed ‘The Burewala Express’, Waqar represents one half of ‘The Two W’s’ – a term coined to describe the bowling partnership between him and Wasim Akram.

Together, Waqar and Wasim went on to become one of the most feared bowling pair in the history of cricket.

Waqar’s Test stats are quite formidable. He took five or more wickets in a Test innings on 22 occasions. He also picked up 10 or more wickets in a match 5 times in his career.

During his playing days, Waqar had the best strike-rate (43.4) among bowlers with more than 200 Test wickets – a record that was broken by Dale Steyn. In a first class career that lasted more than a decade, Waqar picked up 956 wickets in 228 matches.

At 22 years and 15 days, Waqar was the youngest to ever captain a Pakistani Test side. He captained Pakistan in 17 Tests and 62 ODIs.