We could only stand and marvel at them…

Frightening pace: Pakistan’s Wasim Akram steams in to bowl at England’s Jack Russell at Lord’s in 1992, with devastating results, inset
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Jack Russell tells Richard Edwards how he is still haunted by deadly duo Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis 26 years on
It was the only ball I’ve ever faced that swung two different ways before it reached me,” laughs Jack Russell. “It was travelling at about 90 miles an hour and sent my stumps flying, in fact one of them is still probably cartwheeling now.”
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