Former South Africa captain and legendary batter, AB de Villiers, has recently opened up about facing Pakistan right-arm pacer, Shoaib Akhtar, who became the world’s fastest bowler in cricket history twenty years ago.
The former Pakistan pacer bowled the world’s fastest ball in the history of cricket.
While celebrating the 20-year anniversary, Cricket Australia wrote, “On the day Shoaib Akhtar became the first bowler to break the 100mph barrier 20 years ago, we dug into the archives to find perhaps his most ferocious delivery on Australian shores!”
Former Australia all-rounder was quick to respond to the Tweet and shared a video of the delivery he had faced at Brisbane, GABA with an interesting comment about Akhtar and pace, “What a way to spend my 21st birthday!!@shoaib100mph was so good and so bloody fast!!,” Watson wrote.
What a way to spend my 21st birthday!! 😳😳😳@shoaib100mph was so good and so bloody fast!! https://t.co/gW0x1qUDdV
— Shane Watson (@ShaneRWatson33) April 27, 2022
Meanwhile, former South African legendary batter AB de Villiers also commented on the searing delivery and said Akhtar still gives him nightmares “Oh man! I still get nightmares,” he retweeted.
The Rawalpindi Express responded to de Villiers, saying “Come on AB, you’ve given sleepless nights to many bowlers yourself. Always a pleasure interacting with you.”
In response, the right-handed batter mentioned the match in which Akhtar hit him on his leg and said, “Haha. Good old days! You almost broke my leg at Supersport Park in my early twenties after I decided to pull you for 6. The minute it hit my bat I knew it was a big mistake.”
Come on AB, you've given sleepless nights to many bowlers yourself. Always a pleasure interacting with you https://t.co/zdhr2Ullen
— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) April 28, 2022
Shoaib Akhtar was truly a nightmare for the world’s top-class batters at any surface. Akhtar played 46 Tests, and 163 ODIs for Pakistan and took 178 and 246 wickets respectively. He also featured in 15 T20Is where he took 19 wickets.
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