Cricket Players with Same Actions

In the most amazing and thrilling world of Cricket, many legends have marked their presence with their unique style of playing cricket. Some legends like Sir Vivian Richard, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, Muttiah muralitharan etc. have an amazing and unique style of playing cricket and their style becomes so much popular that many other younger cricketers adapt their style to grab a success. Whenever you see them playing, you feel like you have already seen that style of playing before! Have a look on some of the players having similar style of playing cricket.

Brian Lara is a well known former batsman from the West Indies. He was really stylish with his footwork while playing by self-assured tap of the willow between the knees followed by the subtle bend with the bat. His head stay still and body stay behind the ball plus, he put the front foot forward in the direction of pitch of the ball. One another batsman Darren Bravo plays in the same style like Brian Lara but he does not do bending and back lift like Brian Lara.

Guy Whittall and Abhishek Nayar, both bowlers have the same left-handed gentleman’s bowling action. Slow run-up, followed by a shoulder-propelled action due to delivery of ball with no take-off. If you have seen both of them playing, then you will for sure find the resemblance in their bowling style.

Other two bowlers namely Daniel Vettori and Bruce Martin have many things common in their bowling style. Both players’ bowling starts with the smooth run-up followed by firm grip on ball, putting it behind the ear before its release. Both the bowlers have a quite same body movements and arch formation during the delivery of ball.

Two off-spinners of Pakistan namely Saqlain Mushtaq and Saeed Ajmal have same style. Saeed starts slower run-up than Saqlain, but at the point of delivery, both have similar style of bowling. Left arm in the air and spin the ball towards the batsman with the right arm

Have you ever seen that how Ravindra Pushpakumara plays? If yes, then you will certainly feel like Waqar Younis was playing in the same manner. They have common skill of reverse swing styled bowling.

One of the destructive and threatening fast bowling style is Sling Bowling. All time king of Sling Bowling is Jeff Thomson, and if you have seen Lasith Malinga, then you will definitely feel that you are watching Jeff Thomson as playing the Sling Bowling at the speed of 160 kmh and delivering the ball with a round arm extension of 45 degrees though Maling bowled with the little less 140 kmh.