This Guy Bowls Like Shoaib Akhtar
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Cricket lovers and aspiring cricketers have always tried to emulate the styles of the greats of the game.

A Young Pakistani cricketer has surfaced on social media who’s run up and bowling action has an uncanny resemblance to Pakistani Great Shoaib Akhtar bowling action.

A video posted on twitter has went viral which shows an emerging Pakistani bowler named Imran bowling. The run up, bowling action and the bowling style of this bowler in surprisingly similar to Shoaib Akhtar’s action.
Shoaib Akhtar’s bowling action is not an easy one to replicate.

His bowling action involves a very long intimidating run up followed by a powerful release action which allows him to bowl at a Blistering pace.

He holds the record for the fastest delivery of all time when he clocked a speed of 161.3 km/h during the 2003 World Cup.
Shoaib Akhtar Bowling
Other notable bowlers with similar bowling actions are Waqar Younis and Ravindra Pushpakumara, Shane Warne and Adam Zampa, Paul Adams and Shivil Kaushik.
Paul Adams Shivil Kaushik
We can hope that this new bowler can use this attention to his favor and prove to be an asset for Pakistan.

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