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In the situation where 11 players play together for the success of their country in cricket, it is necessary for at least 3-4 players to perform well to win it. In any type of cricket, when a lot of players play together, victory is much easier. But when most players succumb to the opponent’s play, 99% of single-player matches end in defeat. In such a situation where it is essential to work together for success in the international arena, it is important for the batsmen to form a good partnership in the batting field at the same time.
In that way, fans can see the batsmen from the opening to the middle order forming different partnerships in almost all the matches. But the bowlers forming a partnership is one of the rarest of all. What bowling partnership is that you ask? If nothing else, some quality bowlers who take wickets continuously and get many victories due to their great skill in cricket dominated by batsmen will bowl together for many years for the success of the country.
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Bowling Partners:
Moreover, like batsmen, sometimes 2 quality bowlers will pair up in many matches in bowling and form a partnership to suffocate the opponents and give victory to their team. But the bowling partnership is one of the most difficult to put together. Because first of all those two particular bowlers have to be good enough to play for long days. And both have to overcome both injury and form to play longer days. Let’s take a look at the top 5 most wicket-taking partnerships in the history of century-long Test cricket.
#OnThisDay in 1990, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis combined to take a match haul of 15 wickets, against New Zealand, in Karachi ????
The hosts won the Test by an innings and 43 runs! pic.twitter.com/rX2tCehbW9
— ICC (@ICC) October 15, 2020
5. Waqar Younis – Wasim Akram 559: In the 90s, Waqar Younis, who suffocated even the world-class batsmen with their incredible pace, will be a right-arm bowler with his explosive pace. On the other hand, the left-arm bowler Wasim Akram will swing in both directions and suffocate the batsmen.
In that way, they have played 61 matches together for Pakistan, taking 559 wickets and occupying the 5th place in the list of the most successful Pakistani bowling duo in Test cricket.
4. Curtleigh Ambrose – Courtney Walsh 762: Together in the late 80’s and 90’s, they were the last generation of West Indies fast bowlers who smashed skulls.
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Ambrose bowled with a bit too much height to send the batsmen’s stumps flying and bowled sharp bouncers that would send the batsmen flying and Walsh’s wickets to tilt. They have played together in 95 matches and have taken 795 wickets and have given many fast bowlers to the world.
Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas in appearances they’ve made together:
???? Matches ➜ 348
☝️ Wickets ➜ 1,606
????️ Average ➜ 24.24A spin-pace nightmare for batsmen ???? pic.twitter.com/fjIKvl6mk7
— ICC (@ICC) April 28, 2020
3. Muttiah Muralitharan – Samintha Vaz 895: Sri Lanka’s great pacer Vaz used his blazing pace to suffocate the opposition batsmen, while Muralitharan, the greatest spinner in history, surprised the batsmen with his amazing spin and took many wickets.
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Batsmen faced with 2 completely different balls at the same time in terms of speed and spin from them will easily get out without predicting it. In that way, they have taken 895 wickets together for Sri Lanka and have made a record as the best bowling partnership in Asia.
2. James Anderson – Stuart Broad 944*: Two of England’s greatest fast bowlers are the only pair on this list who are still playing.
In this, James Anderson, who is proud to have dismissed world-class batsmen including Sachin many times over the past few years, is taking wickets with his fast balls as his equal partner to suffocate the opposition with his swing balls. They have played together in 126 matches so far and have taken 944* wickets and are showing their experience.
We’ll never see another bowling pair like Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. The Greatest Fast bowler and the Greatest Spinner ever! pic.twitter.com/olOVXSw7ac
— Kaushik Ram (@KaushikRam25) March 4, 2022
1. Shane Warne – Clan McGrath 1001: Bowlers like James Anderson thrive on pitches that lend themselves to swing. Similarly, on spin-friendly pitches, Muttiah Muralitharan will leave the opposition in the dust.
But Glenn McGrath, the fast bowler who intimidated with his skills on all types of pitches in the world such as Australia pitches that don’t give a hand to speed and Indian pitches that give a hand to spin, is the spin bowler Shane Warne who performed magic on Australian and English grounds that don’t give a hand to spin and Asian grounds that give a hand to spin.
In other words, they have performed brilliantly in all places, across time conditions and stadiums, and they have taken the world record of 1001 wickets for Australia in 104 Test matches, the world’s highest wicket-taking partnership.
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