Wasim Akram

Former Pakistan captain Waqar Younis has expressed regret at the strained relationship he shared with Wasim Akram during their playing days

Wasim Akram has criticised former Pakistan players who refused to apply for the Pakistan head coach role through the channels set up by the PCB

Wasim Akram, the former Pakistan captain, had a live shoot for an Indian news channel interrupted on Sunday night in Mumbai

The series that defined five very different fast bowlers

There's nothing quite as magical in cricket as moving the ball in the air at speed

It's a bowling partnership not peculiar to Pakistan but highly identifiable with the country

We look back at six encounters between Pakistan and England that became iconic (sometimes for the wrong reasons)

Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has been shot at while travelling in his car to the National Stadum in Karachi. Reports in the Pakistan media indicate that he is safe

Four fast bowlers, one spinner; two deadly yorkers, a bullet, an arm ball, and magic from Waz

The whole team makes it into the frame in this shot from the Old Trafford Test of 2001

Deceptive, languid, animalistic, terrifying and revealing: five favourite bowling actions

Viv Richards has been crowned the greatest one-day cricketer ever by a jury of 50 eminent players, commentators and writers assembled by the Cricket Monthly

It's Viv Richards by a mile, according to our jury. Martin Crowe doffs his cap to the King, four writers salute the best of the rest, and the results in full

Early into the World Cup, Pakistan's campaign was in danger of disintegrating quickly. But Waqar Younis' approach of allowing the side time to settle has helped them pull things together and find momentum

Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Akram, Adam Gilchrist, Viv Richards, and MS Dhoni are the leading contenders for the crown of the greatest one­-day cricketer of all time, in a poll conducted by the Cricket Monthly

They are fed with plenty of information, say Michael Holding and Wasim Akram, but very few understand their own bowling

Akram's performance in the 1992 final is all the more astonishing when viewed in light of the circumstances

Twenty-two years after Pakistan's headiest triumph, it's still hard to believe how that ramshackle bunch surged to glory

New-ball partners, spin twins, pace-spin combos, duos drawn from quartets: doesn't matter, give us the finest pair of bowlers ever, we said to our panel, and they did just that