Origin
Former Pakistan international Sarfraz Nawaz was the founder of reverse swing during the late 1970s, and he passed his knowledge on to former team-mate and captain Imran Khan. It was Imran who schooled bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who brought the art to the cricket world's attention during the late 1980s and 1990s. The dynamic duo managed to make the old ball swing a considerable distance at pace in both directions, a skill few bowlers can master.
Khan Mohammad is also known as a possible initiator of this art who then passed it on to Sarfraz Nawaz and others.
In a display of reverse swing in a Test match against Australia in 1979 in Melbourne, Sarfraz Nawaz took nine wickets in an innings. This included a remarkable spell of 33 deliveries in which he captured 7 wickets for 1 run. This is when the cricket world noticed this new form of fast bowling.
Wasim Akram then brought reverse swing to the public limelight but the man who really put the reverse into swing was Waqar Younis. He bucked the 1980s trend of pitching fast and short by pitching fast and full. Not an obvious recipe for success until the prodigious late inswing is factored in, which was designed to smash into the base of leg stump or the batsman's toes. He at that point of time was known as the 'Master of Yorker'.
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