Aakash Chopra picks the best yorker bowlers of all time: Former Indian team batsman and cricket commentator Aakash Chopra has recently shared a video on his YouTube channel, in which he has named the 5 most dangerous bowlers in the cricket world who have ever bowled yorkers, which also includes 2 Indians. According to Aakash Chopra, bowling a yorker is much more difficult than bowling a bouncer and it is even more difficult for the batsman to face this yorker ball.
In his video, Aakash Chopra said about the yorker ball: To bowl a bouncer, you have to pitch the ball a little away from the batsman. Bouncers do not require strength. Although bowling a precise bouncer near the ear at a high speed is also an art, the story of the yorker ball is very strange. Throwing the ball in the air with absolute accuracy at the batsman's stumps is a very difficult task and that is why bowlers are not able to bowl yorkers easily with the new ball."
Out of the favorite yorker bowlers named by Aakash Chopra, 3 bowlers are currently playing cricket and 2 of them are Indians. According to Chopra, the first name in the list of his favorite yorker bowlers is Lasith Malinga, who used to practice yorker ball by keeping his shoes in front of the wicket in net practice. Apart from this, he has also selected Pakistani legends Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis in the list of the world's most dangerous yorker bowlers. Aakash Chopra's list does not end here, two Indian bowlers included in it are Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. According to Chopra
Jasprit Bumrah is a genius bowler of Test and ODI matches. His yorker ball bowled to Ollie Pope is one of the best yorkers ever, which I still watch many times. At the same time, Shami impressed everyone with his debut match. While making his debut against West Indies, Shami took 5 wickets and all his yorkers were spot on.
Aakash Chopra has also included former English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, former Caribbean all-rounder Dwayne Bravo and Australia's Mitchell Starc in his list. Regarding Starc, Chopra believes that he is definitely among the 5 most dangerous yorker bowlers of all time along with Lasith Malinga, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram and Jaspreet Bumrah.
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