Ball of the Century??? Waqar Younus to Brian Lara
It is 1997. On a sweltering afternoon in Rawalpindi, Brian Lara, the Prince of Trinidad, is facing up to Waqar Younis, the Sultan of Swing. Lara has already taken ten off the over, going onto the back foot to relatively well pitched-up deliveries, and smashing them through cover and mid-off. Waqar, undeterred, steams in from over the wicket, hurtling down a yorker that looks certain to go well wide of off with the angle. Lara shapes up to go through the off side again. But before he can blink, the ball, as if by magic, changes direction, tailing into his toes. Lara tries to adjust, but looks completely flummoxed as the ball clatters into his stumps. The best that he can do is to avoid having his toe broken, desperately moving his feet out of the way of the swinging thunderbolt, and in the process knocking himself off his feet, splattering down embarrassingly on all fours.