Toe-crushers

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Toecrushers is an alternative name for yorker deliveries (usually inswinging ones) in cricket. This term was probably first used by TV commentators^[1] in early 1990s to describe the frequent inswinging yorkers bowled by Pakistani fast bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. Younis^[2] has also been called the toe-crusher^[3] due to his iconic late in-swinging yorkers.

Toe crushers are said to be much more difficult to play as the ball nips in just before it lands giving it a higher chance for the batsman to miss and get bowled while trying to defend or hit it.

References

^ "Toe-crusher in cricket - the main meaning of the term". iSPORT.in. 2022-04-03. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
^ Staff, Scroll (2020-08-02). "Pause, rewind, play: Waqar Younis and his extraordinary late-swinging, toe-crushing yorker". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
^ "Waqar the toe-crusher calls time". The Telegraph. 2004-04-13. Retrieved 2025-02-22.

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Akram and his toe-crushers will always be remembered^[usurped]

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[1] "Toe-crusher in cricket - the main meaning of the term". iSPORT.in. 2022-04-03. Retrieved 2025-02-22.

[2] Staff, Scroll (2020-08-02). "Pause, rewind, play: Waqar Younis and his extraordinary late-swinging, toe-crushing yorker". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2025-02-22.

[3] "Waqar the toe-crusher calls time". The Telegraph. 2004-04-13. Retrieved 2025-02-22.

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