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so I think it is a little something of a psychological thing that is ingrained in their brain. Pakistan has produced some good spin bowlers over the years but in any other country of the subcontinent we see a lot of spin bowlers but not in Pakistan. Here we have the Wannabe Shoaib Akhtar’s.
Imran Khan can be said to be the main reason for the love affair of pace bowling in Pakistan and then they had Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis along with players like Aaqib Javed and the street cricket produces more players and in the streets you need to defeat the batsman with pace and if you are a slow bowler you will be taken apart and may be that is the reason everyone wants to bowl fast and exceptional bowlers get selected to domestic and other levels.
For example in the case of Waqar Younis, who started as a leg spinner but turned to fast bowling and Imran Khan found him playing for clubs and he fast tracked his career in the international level and he was not having much experience playing domestic cricket either when he was picked for Pakistan team, either you need a great captain who can identify talents and have the time to travel the nation to find talents to fast track them or the players need to work hard through the system and gets identified.
I really don't know the situation of Pakistan but I really think that favoritism is Pretty less here compared to India or Bangladesh. I think that is a big reason why Pakistani cricketers are pretty genuine and skillful. And there are people on the board who actually cares about the team more than money.
I really don’t remember any spin bowler from Pakistan except for Afridi cause he used to bowl Spin, or was he a medium fast bowler always had trouble understanding his bowling. Also didn’t Shaun Tait have that weird action and despite having the pace he barely performed well, just
googled and it was also injuries which effected his career, because I clearly remember he had the potential to succeed but he failed too.
Shahid Afridi and Saqlain Mushtaq are the two names that come into mind when we talk about Pakistan and spin bowling. And yes Shahid Afridi was a leg-spin bowler who opens bowled at 120+ kmph speed.
So it's OK to get confused by watching his bowling. And Shaun Tait who was a fast bowler, from Australia, is 38 years old right now and just got lost through injuries.
Abdul Qadir, Saqlain Mushtaq, Saeed Ajmal and Danish Kaneria are few name comes to my mind. Qadir and Mustaq were very good and last 2 guys also peaked for quite some time but disappeared for some reasons. In modern times Yasir Shah is my fav pakistani spin bowler but i can't see him anywhere nowadays and he seems to get into limelight due to some shady business irl.
All the names that are mentioned above are some of the Legends of the game and Yasir Shah is a really good leg-spin bowler who had the potential to be mentioned alongside them. But I think he genuinely didn't care. We all know how hard it was at that time to find genuine leg spinners when he came into the scene. But I think he valued other things over his career.
