Muhammad Abbas: A Dangerous Test Bowler Swing & Accuracy

Pakistan has always been very demanding in producing fast bowlers. Sarfaraz Nawaz, Imran Khan, Waseem Akram, Waqar Younas, Aqib Javeed, Shoaib Akhtar, Muhammad Amir, Umer Gul,Shaheen Afridi, and Muhammad Irfan are famous bowlers.

But among all these, there is one such hidden, unknown diamond in the history of Pakistan cricket whose career has been a victim of many disappointments. And those disappointments were not due to his performance but due to the frequent changes in the Pakistan Cricket Board and the political mess.

Muhammad Abbas has been the most underrated player in Pakistan history. Whenever he got a chance to represent a national team, he delivered and made his mark. After the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in 2009, international cricket matches in Pakistan came to a halt and it took a lot of time for Pakistan to recover.

And during this entire period, Pakistan played most of its home matches in the UAE.

And throughout this period, Pakistan played most of its home matches in UAE. During this period, when international cricket was still being revived in Pakistan, Muhammad Abbas made his Test debut against West Indies in Jamaica in 2017. And in the first Test match of his career, he took a wicket of 100 runs in the second ball of the first innings and took 3 wickets in an innings.

2018 was the 10th year of his career, where Muhammad Abbas took 8 wickets in the Test match against England at Lord's, and Pakistan achieved a first-class victory in that match. The same year, he took 10 wickets in the match against Australia in Abu Dhabi, and Muhammad Abbas made it to the Test Team of the Year in 2018.

Muhammad Abbas was never a fast bowler, rather his strength was his line, length and swing bowling. Muhammad Abbas's career had many ups and downs. Pakistan started playing on spin pitches in most of the home matches where Abbas often had to sit out. Apart from this, some injuries also played their part in Muhammad Abbas's career.

After 2021, he remained out of the team for 3 consecutive years. But due to his excellent performance in county cricket, he was once again included in the national team. Abhilaiya Dora also bowled brilliantly in the first test match for West Indies. But he was dropped from the team in the second match due to Hairan Kuntor.

Among the currently active players, only India's Jasprit Bumrah, South Africa's Kagiso Rabada and Australia's Pat Cummins are the bowlers whose average is higher than Muhammad Abbas in test. That means Muhammad Abbas holds the record of 4th best test bowling average.

Muhammad Abbas played County cricket in England for Hampshire and Leicestershire and gave excellent performances. In English conditions, a bowler like Muhammad Abbas who can swing the ball both ways is absolutely the most successful bowler. Muhammad Abbas was treated unfairly in his career due to selection issues and was repeatedly denied. Cricketers believe that if Muhammad Abbas had been made a part of a Muslim team, he would have become a shining face of Pakistan and would have taken at least 250, 300 test wickets today.